The day Viggo Mortensen was mistaken for a Barcelona fan by the Madrid ultras and ended up bottled

Behind Pope Francis, Viggo Mortensen must be a fan of Saint Lawrence most popular on earth. It’s that his role as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings has taken him to an unusual level of stardom. A place he took advantage of not only to become an international figure in the world of acting, but also to become a traveling ambassador of the Barça club in the world. So you always see him wearing the colors of the club on the red carpet he walks on, whether it’s at the Cannes Film Festival, the Oscars and even when he meets a major producer to discuss the terms of his next role. Even if this brings you problems.

The son of a Danish father and an American mother, the 63-year-old actor was born in New York but lived to the age of eleven in Argentina, which led him to forge a staunch fanaticism for the Cyclone. Viggo, in fact, does not miss a San Lorenzo match when he is visiting our country. And he follows him in whatever way he is in the place of the world he is in.

In dialogue with Mario Pergolini, for Radio Vortex, Mortensen He told a hilarious anecdote a few years ago involving the Barça club and these days he has returned to circulate on the networks.

The scene takes place in Madrid where, for work reasons, he had to meet an important film director and it was the colors of the San Lorenzo that created a big problem for him. Luckily it didn’t happen to the adults, at least for him.

I was in Puerta del Sol and the Real Madrid ultras see me with those colors, they thought I was from Barcelona. That’s how I came, all of Barça and they tell me some very bad things on the street and they start beating me. “began to tell.

“I had a bag with two bottles of wine and in the end I broke one over the head of one“, he added, amid the laughter of everyone present in the studio.” I arrived all sweaty at the director’s house, who he thought was full of blood. I told him ‘no, no, it’s wine’ and explained everything to him. ‘But I have a bottle left, let’s get it’ “he concluded naturally, as if nothing had happened.

In any case, that was not the only violent situation he had to experience in relation to football. In the same interview with Pergolini, with a cheerful tone, he told an anecdote about a game in Rosario.

“I had to escape from Newell’s camp. They were throwing stones, pebbles, sticks at us. One yells, ‘Fucking actor. Put on the ring and disappear!’ I fell to my knees, laughing. Others told me ‘you’re a boss’, ‘come on Viggo’, while I kept getting high “.

And he added: “But I had my revenge. Before leaving we put 20,000 copies of the San Lorenzo on the entire stadium. We also put the statue of Che!”

“You’ll see me come back”

The subtitle that precedes these lines does not refer to the last album recorded live by Soda Stereo, but to the shirt he used Viggo Mortensen upon arrival at the traditional San Sebastian Festival in September 2020.

He had the shield of Saint Lawrence and the slogan that acted as a flywheel to promote the long-awaited return to Boedo.

Whenever he can, as seen in San Sebastian, an actor nominated for three Oscars manages to sneak Club Boedo into the firmament of Hollywood celebrities and become a topic of conversation around the world.