![]() ![]() ![]() Apart from his talents as a poet, musician, photographer, and painter, Mortensen’s acting career has garnered critical respect as well as Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. Doesn’t everybody want to be Viggo Mortenson? I do!” Ross is only partly joking. “I didn’t really think about it until it came time for casting, and then as soon as I thought of Viggo, it was never a question of anyone else. “Maybe Harrison Ford when he was about 40,” he jokes. Matt Ross (the director of 28 Hotel Rooms, and an actor in many TV series, including Big Love, Magic City, and American Horror Story) said that he didn’t write the story with Mortensen in mind. As a general rule, those are the things that I remember fondly…those are the things that you have to go after.” Sometimes there are things that you know that you can do, but you’re afraid of it. There were health things going on with my family, and it took me a while to jump in, but Matt was very stubborn about it, which I’ll forever be grateful to him for. I knew that I was right for it, but I was afraid of it somehow. “What you see on the screen is pretty close to what I read the first time. All the children have been raised to grow food and hunt, they’re philosophers who live without modern technology, and they’ve all been educated to be super smart. “It was one of the best scripts that I’ve ever read,” says Mortensen. Schillings contacted Ipso, the press regulator, to ask journalists to stop “either leaning over the fence or placing their long-focus-lens cameras through hedges to take intrusive photographs”, noting that the family had set up a Twitter account, containing images that could be used for free.There was a lot of love in the room after the screening of Matt Ross’ inspired and heartfelt comedy, Captain Fantastic, at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, not least from Viggo Mortensen, who plays the lead role of a father bringing up six kids in the wilderness. “I explained that Captain Tom’s family needed a bit of help and Schillings immediately said, yes, and of course this will be pro bono.” “It was probably the easiest phone call I’ve ever made,” said Carver. One of her first calls was to Schillings, the notorious London libel firm, famed for its sky-high fees and celebrity clientele. He suggested a Facetime call to prove his identity and soon had arranged for a fence to be put up outside the family garden, according to Megan Carver, Knowles’s longtime PR.Ĭarver came on board last week to help field inquiries for free. Hannah, a huge DIY SOS fan, texted asking if this was really Nick Knowles. A neighbour got a number for DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles to see if he could help. The family began to worry about crowds outside the house. By 20 April he had raised over £20m and had recorded a duet with Michael Ball that was on its way to number one in the charts. On 16 April Moore finished his challenge live on BBC Breakfast surrounded by a guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. Before long, their rivals on Good Morning Britain had picked up the story, with Piers Morgan pledging £10,000 of his own money.īack in Marston Moretaine, a small village 12 miles from Milton Keynes, journalists and well-wishers began congregating outside the house Captain Tom shares with Hannah and her family, hoping to catch a glimpse of their hero doing his laps. The BBC Breakfast team watched, staggered, as donations to Captain Tom’s Just Giving Page went from £1,000 to a million and beyond. ![]() ![]() “Remember,” he said, “tomorrow is a good day, tomorrow you will maybe find everything will be much better than today.”Ī star was born. “You have lived, and you have seen some tough times in this country, can you inspire people who are watching now, just reassure them, it will be fine?” asked Naga Munchetty. Photograph: Emma Sohl/EPAĪ local ITV report followed and by 10 April, Good Friday, Captain Tom was live on BBC Breakfast. Capt Tom Moore and his daughter Hannah celebrating his 100th birthday. ![]()
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