Viggo Mortensen was the biggest star on the opening night of the 58 th Karlovy Vary IFF, where the actor presented his second work as a director, The Dead Don’t Hurt, and also received the festival’s Pre­sident’s Awar­d. In a red carpet interview, he discusses how The Dead Don’t Hurt is in many ways a classic western, albeit from an unusual female perspective, and how he chooses new projects.