Actor Viggo Mortensen, who identifies as heterosexual, defended his decision to play a gay man in his directorial debut, Falling, which deals with a family’s dementia-stricken patriarch, who is also racist and homophobic. Mortensen told Reuters that the decision to make the film’s main character John a gay man was not “a gimmick, anchor or … Continue reading Viggo Mortensen Defends Playing Gay in New Film: It’s Not ‘a Gimmick, Anchor, or Some Trigger’ — WATCH