Mortensen’s artistic side beyond acting is pretty bizarre (more on that later), but it’s come in handy for a couple of his roles.

Mortensen is an avid painter, to the point that his work has been featured in galleries internationally, but you may have seen his work in the movie A Perfect Murder. He might be playing a painter in that film, but most of the paintings the character works on throughout the film are original pieces Mortensen made for the film.