I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn. He could have greased a chariot’s wheels with the oil in his hair. He spoke with no real authority or presence. And the continual whining about Arwen was more the behavior of a love-lorn schoolboy than an heir to Isildur.
Badly miscast, in my opinion.
I think those characteristics are the director’s fault rather than the actor’s.
That was probably the script
In many ways I think that was the point...
After years of living the hard life of a Ranger, one would be humble and unassuming...
JMHO
I have to disagree with the Mortensen pick. This was the latest in a Iong line of kings, but there was nothing regal about Mortensen’s Aragorn.
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Totally agree! I have loved Mortensen in other roles (such as “A History of Violence”) but he was just miscast as Aragorn. He wasn’t rough and, frankly, frightening enough in his Strider persona, and I never bought him as the king in waiting. Daniel Day-Lewis would have been very good, I think, though he tends to ham things up. (Though at least we were spared Nicholas Cage!!! Yikes! LOL!)