The Lord of the Rings actor’s film is out this week.
Viggo Mortensenhas watched people fade.
“It’s a very personal story,” Mortensen says.
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I’ve seen it up close with quite a few people in my family.
So I started writing down some stories I’d heard at her funeral.
How can people remember the same person, the same event, so differently?"
Mortensen continues, “it made me think about how subjective memory was.
“Originally, it was not my idea to act in the movie.
I had enough to do,” Mortensen says.
And most of my character’s scenes are with Lance.
Mortensen continues, “it’s years of work, so you want to cast it properly.
We were very careful with all the casting and I thought I would be right for it.
Selfishly speaking, I had the best seat in the house.
But this storyline is intercut with flashbacks to earlier phases of their lives growing up on Willis' farm.
Dementia is certainly not untrodden territory for cinema.
“But in my experience, they only get bent out of shape if you correct them.
You do that and they’re crushed, because that person dies for them anew.
Fallingwill be available for theatrical, digital, and on-demand viewing on Feb. 5.
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