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It's very difficult to find things for Viggo... I suspect he has employed people at some point that work in removing search results and he's actively made it very difficult to search for things about him or his views.
What I can say is that he was anti iraq war when it wasn't cool to be against it in america. He's pro-Cuba. He's pro-Palestine. His wife is Catalan and he's been a participant in Catalan independence agitation. He supported Bernie back in the peak period, but he's since called Bernie a warhawk.
Now, any one of these by themselves I'd say could also make someone a lib. But together? Signs point to him being somewhere left of liberal.
Googling him is hard as fuck for an A list celebrity. I strongly believe that he has someone actively removing his search results.
This one is interesting:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/05/viggo-mortensen-interview-jauja
Wearing his "they call me antisemitic" with pride openly in newspaper interviews as far back as 2015. We all know that's for anti-zionism before it was cool.
EDIT: Libbiest stuff I can find is some support for Ukraine. Didn't really said anything other than vague anti-warism and wearing the coat of arms trident on a tshirt though.
I am willing to cut people some slack on Ukraine because it takes a pretty specifically ML brain to come to the correct conclusion
Thanks, yeah seems like the quote would not be out of context for him.