Prepare your ears, humans. Happy, sad, confused, begins now.

Today on Happy, sad, confused Vigo Mortensen from Croninburg and the Lord of the Rings

to his directing debut with Falling. Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow. It's welcome to another edition

of Happy, sad, confused, first time guest. One of the best actors in the business,

Vigo Mortensen is the main event on today's edition of Happy, sad, confused.

Somebody I want to have on for a long while. He actually doesn't work a tremendous amount. He's

kind of like in that, maybe not the rarefied Daniel Day Lewis frequency of acting gigs,

but he is very selective in what he does. So maybe the opportunities haven't come as often

as I'd like. Though of course a couple of years back, he did get nominated for a green book.

That was his most recent kind of celebrated role in the film that won best picture, of course,

a couple of years back. He is always fantastic. A consummate chameleon, a guy that can virtually

do anything, whether it's a heroic leading man performance in Word of the Rings.

These kind of transformative performances for the likes of David Croninburg. He is somebody that

always just pops off the screen and I've just such respect for his career, his intellect as you'll

hear. He's a deep guy, a smart guy, and this was a really thoughtful conversation. He is now

also worth mentioning a director. This is his directing debut long in the making. He's

want to make a film for a long time. It's hard even for someone like Vigo Mortensen to get a film

off the ground, but he's finally done it. And it's a great piece of work. I got a chance to see

this one a while back last year, actually, at Sundance, and then I saw it again recently. The film

is called Falling. Vigo stars in it alongside Lance Henrickson. You'll hear us sing his praises in

this, too, because you know, if you love film and TV the last 30 years, you love Lance Henrickson,

especially if you love his genres stuff. I mean, my god, when I was growing up and he popped up in

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