Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s trusty typewriter, on which he wrote some of his most famous works sold for an amazing $254,500 at an auction sale in New York yesterday – ten times its original $20,000 estimate.
McCarthy wrote more than a dozen novels, including No Country For Old Men and The Road, a string of [...]

Viggo Mortenson, 51, allowed his experience of fatherhood to inform his upcoming role in an on-screen tale adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
Mortenson, who has played some risky characters, said that he naturally filled the role of the father trying to protect his son: “I think he [the father] has an idea of what he [...]

Enigmatic actor Viggo Mortensen angrily quashed rumours that he was quitting acting.
“I was just honest with someone a little while back who asked me if I had a movie lined up. I said ‘no’ and they wrote, ‘Oh, he’s quitting.’ I never said it,” he said at the Toronto Film Festival.
Mortensen is promoting his new [...]

A young Australian actor is basking in the praise of the enigmatic Viggo Mortensen.
The Lord Of The Rings star said his The Road co-star was the best acting partner he has ever had.
Twelve-year-old Aussie Kodi Smit-McPhee plays the actor’s son in The Road, which is an adaptation of a bestseller by Cormac McCarthy.
Mortensen [...]