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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Old West was full of terrifying and conniving male figures, as explored in The Dead Don't Hurt. Viggo Mortensen's return to the directorial chair largely centers on Vicky Krieps' Vivienne Le Coudy, a Franco-Canadian immigrant who falls in love with Danish immigrant, Holger Olsen, played by Mortensen, and leaves behind her life of luxury for a quiet, more humble one with him.
Alongside Mortensen, Krieps and McLeod, the ensemble Dead Don't Hurt cast includes Garret Dillahunt, W. Earl Brown and Nadia Litz. Utilizing a non-chronological structure to tell its powerful story, the movie has continued Mortensen's success streak as a writer/director/producer, with the Western drama currently holding an 85% "Certified Fresh" approval rating from critics on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes.
Solly McLeod: Yeah, initially, just the fact that I could have been working with Viggo and Vicky was already kind of enough for me to want to do the film. He called me up, and he kind of said, "I'm gonna send you the script, there's a role in it I think you'd be great for. If you hate the script, then just let me know." And I was like, "Yeah, all right. I'm not really going to write back to Viggo Mortensen and tell him this script is s--t.
There's a specific scene with him and his father, Alfred Jeffries, where you see kind of a confrontation, and you see Weston as a character who, up to this point, has been the most kind of intense, strong character on screen in this film, and then suddenly, he's a little bit of a puppy. He doesn't really know what to do, he can't really break out of this grasp that his father has on him.
Solly McLeod: I think the fact that we didn't shoot it towards the start, we were kind of halfway through filming, maybe even towards the end, at the time that we shot it, which definitely helped, just because we got to know each other, and we could be more comfortable in that sense. There was definitely a vibe on set, it was more tense than other days. But I think that was a good thing, to be honest.
Solly McLeod: It was quite fun switching from a menace, murderer, psychopath to charming, genuine-seeming kind of guy. Some scenes, he's a lovely guy, which is really weird to see, because we knew from the start, that this big opening scene was going to take place first, that the audience would already just distrust him anytime he was on screen, no matter what.
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