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For Eastern Promises, he was given a number of fight scenes, the most complex being the ambush of a naked Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen) by a couple of Chechen thugs out for revenge in …

Oct 19, 2007 · Viggo Mortensen, the dashing Aragorn in ‘Lord of the Rings’, has filmed the most talked-about fight scene of the decade in his latest film, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.

Jeremy Smith over at CHUD turned me on to an article at The Globe and Mail in regards to David Cronenberg‘s upcoming Eastern Promises starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts.. The article does

Feb 24, 2008 · Viggo Mortensen went beyond the call of duty by filming a fight scene in nothing but his birthday suit.

In "Eastern Promises," Mortensen portrays Nikolai, a mysterious Russian who is the driver and undertaker for the Russian underground criminal cartel in shady, lowlife London.

Following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, most of the attention directed at Eastern Promises was in response to the full frontal nudity and graphic of the film’s knife fight, which Roger Ebert suggested would become a benchmark for future fight scenes, comparing it to the standard The French Connection

Mortensen’s latest movie is the David Cronenberg-directed "Eastern Promises" (in theaters September 14), and his turn as a Russian mob man in the thriller has many talking Oscar.

Mar 31, 2015 · Images taken from David Cronenberg’s "Eastern Promises"

Mortensen’s latest movie is the David Cronenberg-directed "Eastern Promises" (in theaters September 14), and his turn as a Russian mob man in the thriller has many talking Oscar.