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...think it’s more a meditation or discussion of those subjects and others, rather than, let’s say, a statement,” says Cronenberg. This ideology gets to the heart of the confusion within the director’s style; he explains that “a statement would suggest that I had some solutions to some problems, which I don’t have...
According to Cronenberg, it is particularly tough to cast a group of actors that are meant to resemble a close-knit family: “When you think about it, for example, I cast Viggo, and now I become like a dating service or a marriage counselor: I have to find him a wife...
Coming off of “Lord of the Rings” and “Hildago,” Mortensen was not the obvious choice for such a role, but Cronenberg realized, “This movie, in a weird way, is much more like the films he normally does, which is character acting...
...Cronenberg was turned onto Mortensen by his performance in “A Walk on the Moon,” in which he plays a traveling salesman having an affair with a lonely housewife. The director feels that “in that [film], he did something that you don’t see in most of his other movies: he was very sweet, gentle, tender, compassionate, and of course, sexy, which I knew I needed Tom Stall to have...
Although “Violence” is based on an obscure graphic novel, Cronenberg did not read it until far into production. Cronenberg says that “when I read it, I realized we had gone so far in a very specific direction away from the novel that I felt it was irrelevant...