Viggo Mortensen: “The Green Book criticism is based on a lot of cops ***”

iggo Mortensen railed against the fate of Green book. Peter Farrelly’s feel-good movie seemed to have peaked in Hollywood when it received an Oscar for Best Picture last year. Set in the separated Sixties America, it tells the true story of the budding friendship between a black classical pianist and his bigoted Italian-American driver. Mortensen himself was nominated for best actor. But he tells me somberly, “It has become a cliché to say,” Will this movie be that? Green book this year? ” Green book has become pejorative. “