Viggo Mortensen has shared the brutal way Oliver Stone dropped him from Platoon – despite already being cast in the film.
When asked if he had come close to starring in any big Hollywood films of old, the Lord of the Rings star revealed he had been cast in Platoon, telling The Independent series Go to Bat. “I auditioned on video tape and I got the role that eventually Willem Dafoe ended up playing. I assumed I had that role.”
