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Viggo Mortensen to retire from acting?

We all know the scene – Some sad, B-list actor announces in a fit of egocentric frustration and unconvincing emotion that they’re ‘finished’ with acting.

Fade out…Fade up – ‘Six Months Later:’ The same desperate has-been whose pubescent tantrum was the first earthly clue most Producers had seen that they were even alive signs up to make ten more movies – for five times the fee!

Well, that’s not the case in this story…So far.

Viggo Mortensen, the hirsute New Yorker whose smoldering presence in Lord of the Rings made legions of female geeks pay attention has declared he’s now semi-retired, “I have no plans to do another movie. I’ll see how I feel in a while, but right now I’m not saying yes to anything. I feel like I’ve taken on too much.”

From his earlier interviews it’s clear that at least part of the problem is the unending travel, and the dent that can put in your health. And it’s not like he lacks other choices – An accomplished musician with three CD’s to his name, Viggo is now promoting his new film, ‘The Road.’ But once that is done his schedule is empty.

And this sudden retirement could cause a real problem: Now the court case is settled, Peter Jackson is due to start shooting a two-volume film adaptation of the Tolkien classic, ‘The Hobbit.’ And Aragorn – Viggo’s character from ‘..Rings’ – is required in part two of those films.

So is this a ploy, or will he be back. The man is not saying, so what is your view?

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