Viggo Mortensen Had a Routine of Violently Head-Butting His LOTR Castmates
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy was a perfect storm of greatness. I don't know if we'll ever see that kind of surprising, magical, and epic fantasy filmmaking again. That looked like it would have been one of the most fun movie sets to be on ever, and we know that the cast and crew all became incredibly tight with each other. It's the perfect kind of atmosphere to breed pranks.
During a recent AMA on Reddit, Dominic Monaghan was asked if there were any pranks pulled on the set of the trilogy that we might not have heard about before. He went on to reveal that Viggo Mortensen had a routine head-butting his cast mates for fun... and it hurt. Monaghan says:
"Vigo conducted a long running head-butting prank which involved him head-butting you quite violently. He almost knocked me out at my birthday party with a head-butt. It continues to this day. When I saw him a few weeks ago the first thing i did was give him a good old fashioned head-butt."
It's so cool that this tradition of head-butting continues.