After playing Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings saga, Viggo Mortensen became an internationally renowned actor. However, before having the successful career he has managed to build up so far, the actor had to face some of the most bitter challenges in the industry. One of these was during his time working on Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo. There, he had a role that he never really understood. It seems that Woody Allen simply asked him to improvise all of his part. As if that wasn’t enough, the worst part happened when he took his family to finally watch the movie. It turns out that it wasn’t until they watched the movie that they all noticed Viggo Mortensen’s scenes were completely left out. And not only that, but his name wasn’t even mentioned in the credits. Fortunately, he got over that pretty quickly and continued with a career that led him to becoming a very successful actor.