Archived Viggo Mortensen on actors behaving like babies and why he won't vote for Hillary (theguardian.com)
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Archived Viggo Mortensen on actors behaving like babies and why he won't vote for Hillary (theguardian.com)
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...Mortensen has had an eventful election. An enthused supporter of Bernie Sanders, the selection of Hillary Clinton left him so dispirited he decided to vote for Jill Stein of the Green party. On mentioning this publicly, the response from some fearful of a backdoor Trump victory was raw.
The prominent film blogger Sasha Stone wrote a 2,000-word open letter: “Viggo, I expected you to have compassion and regard for the most vulnerable. As evidenced by your recent words, you clearly don’t.”
He half-nods. Clinton, he says, is simply dishonest. “I understand the argument that I’m helping Trump. But people said it was a problem in 2000 voting for Ralph Nader and not Al Gore, and that election was stolen by Bush anyway.” He screws up his face....