Lord Of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen hated playing a Nazi author in controversial new movie Good - because he has never been fond of Germans or Germany.

Many of the actor's relatives lived in German-occupied Denmark during the Second World War, and he has always harbored resentment towards the nation.

He tells WENN, "I've heard stories from my aunts and uncles and my dad, I had an attitude about Germans, a prejudice about them. I speak several languages and I'm interested in languages. I can read a German paper slowly and can almost figure it out, yet I don't speak German and I realize I don't want to speak German. I don't like the way it sounds and I don't like being in Germany."

However Mortensen, who portrays a German who joins the Nazis to further his career as an author, admits making the film softened his feelings towards the country. He adds, "By playing a German and trying to be honest about it I sort of got past that prejudice and judgment... Germans are people too!"

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