The Lord of the Rings: Viggo Mortensen almost killed a partner on the set

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Among the trilogies that cinema gave us, such as The Godfather either Return to the futureone of the ones that ranks highest for all moviegoers is The Lord of the rings. Directed by Peter Jackson released his three films in consecutive years from 2001 to 2003 and kept 17 Oscar awards being The return of the King the most successful of all, with 11 statuettes out of 11 nominations received. There, we saw figures like Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensento mention some of its actors.

Of all of them, it was Viggo Mortensen the one who came closest to one of his scenes ending in disaster, when he almost killed one of his teammates on set. It was during a sequence that was part of the second film of the trilogy, The two Towerswhere it happened the Battle of Helm’s Deep. The person in charge of telling it was the same artist who almost died at the hands of Viggo Mortensen, Baker Room.

In an interview with Look who I foundthe actor who played sauron but who also acted as an orc for some scenes of the trilogy, told how the fact was where the difference between life and death was in the composition of the sword used. Which Viggo Mortensen he was wielding at the time was made of aluminum and was lighter, unlike other sequences where real swords were used to get better detail shots during the movies.

“It was not his fault, we were training with a new horse, a black stallion that was going to be his horse and he had not been near swords, he had not had swords brandished near his head nor had he seen us with the masks on as the monsters ”remembered Baker Room. Then he completed: “We took off our masks so that he could see that we were human, but when we rehearsed the fight and I attacked Viggo, Viggo he wanted to hit me on the shoulder and the horse stood on its hind legs, missed my shoulder and hit my head. He split my head open. They put nine staples in my head. If it had been a real sword, I’d be dead.”.

+How Sala Baker came to The Lord of the Rings

Today a fundamental part of the trilogy of The Lord of the rings, Baker Room he had to make a lot of effort to be a part of these films and he also had to be very lucky. Originally, the New Zealand born was introduced to help in some action sequences as a stuntman and ended up being offered to be an extra. During those days, the casting of sauron and without much hesitation, he applied to do it and ended up landing this role. Thus, she had three different roles throughout the films of Peter Jackson: it was sauronplayed some orcs and also did some stunts.