Viggo Mortensen has long carved out a reputation for himself as an —and not in either of the ways we usually mean that, i.e., “Unemployed student filmmaker” “Said some shit on social media and now works exclusively in faith-based entertainment.

” Mortensen has just made it clear that, despite having ostensibly done his time in the franchise mines, he only acts when and if he feels like it, and when he feels like a project is worth building up some enthusiasm for. Hence, presumably, the genuine vitriol the actor fired toward Amazon in , where he called out Jeff Bezos and his hordes for dumping Mortensen’s 2022 Ron Howard flick to streaming after just a week in limited release. “They have all their excuses for why they did that, but it comes down to greed,” Mortensen stated.

“How much money do you need?” The actor—who’s promoting his second directorial effort, —says that, after the Howard film (“One of his better movies,” in Mortensen’s estimation) tested super well back in 2022, MGM intended to give it a wide release. But then Amazon bought the studio, and, well: All told, it’s a pleasantly fiery interview—Mortensen also talks some serious shit about the reception that granted a few years back, and talked about his general feelings on genre or franchise work: “If somebody came to me with X movie, the third part or the ninth part, and I thought it was a great character and I wanted to play that character and I thought I had something to cont.