Toronto: Viggo Mortensen Talks Hollywood Strikes, Directing Vicky Krieps in Feminist Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’

Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, the Western The Dead Don’t Hurt, is dedicated to his late mother, Grace Gamble Atkinson, who poetically lives on somewhat in the film’s lead character, the fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy, played by Vicky Krieps. “Vivienne, she’s no wonder woman. But she’s very strong, has an inner strength, […]