Viggo Mortensen: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Viggo Mortensen said elsewhere, not written here

Right now. The past has gone.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

Brenda Blethyn British actress

I hope that time hasn't come yet.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 April 2012 source ↗

Julian Lloyd Webber British cellist and conductor

When I was 16, I’d just won full scholarships to both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music, and felt like the world was my oyster.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2023 source ↗

Pamela Anderson Canadian-American actress and model

When Peta picked me to be on their first Times Square anti-fur billboard.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2008 source ↗

Cycling around Martha’s Vineyard alone in the summer of 1976.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2026 source ↗

That Barack Obama seems to be more concerned with becoming re-elected than with doing his very best to fulfil the promise of his candidacy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2010 source ↗

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