okiitos:chernobog13:fernysbasement:I’m more than a bit fascinated by this partly translated magazine
okiitos:chernobog13:fernysbasement:I’m more than a bit fascinated by this partly translated magazine article about Viggo Mortensen and Karl Urban visiting Japan in 2003 and going super hard into buying Gundam and other weeab stuff (and not just because I bought that same Zaku more than a decade later). https://www.brego.net/article/viggo-mortensen-visiting-japanese-culture/“Then they went to the Gundam corner. There they were really serious and wearing aura which prevented us disturbing them. They didn’t move from there for nearly 20 minutes, staring goods almost touching glass cases. When they finally moved, both of them bought several Gundam goods. Never would have thought that, but Viggo knows extremely well about Japanese heroes. After having bought Gundam characters, Viggo asked where was the Ultraman corner. Again, they were in. This time, he came back after 5 minutes, but his arms were full of goods which he bought. He bought a figure set of Baltan Alien as a present to one-and-a-half-year-old son of Karl. Viggo bought it after having confirmed, “He is a bad guy, isn’t he?” I wondered what was his intention.“The sight of Aragorn and Eomer geeking out over and purchasing Japanese action figures warms my heart so much.My boy Karl got himself an Ex-S gundam. That’s good taste right there -- source link