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Who was the original actor cast to play Aragon in LOTR? Not Viggo.

It's stated time and again that Viggo was not the first cast in the role as Aragon in the Lord of the Rings films, that he came in only days before he was needed on set. But they don't say on the DVD's who was the original person cast in the role. Who was he?
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nadiraziz | 3 years, 3 months ago
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Stuart Townsend was originally cast as Aragon!

In one of the extended editions they show a short video clip of Stuart as Aragon.

The most common story as to why they fired him was that he was too young to play the role, but who knows whether that's the real story. Either way, I'm glad Viggo ended up with the part instead.

Also heard they offered the role to Daniel Day Lewis but he turned it down.

There are a couple comments from Mr Townsend where he sounds none too happy about being fired:

http://speculativevision.com/scifi_news/lotr/

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jeffhoard | 3 years, 3 months ago
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tracebooks | 3 years, 3 months ago
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Stuart Townsend, but he didn't have the request weatherbeaten look or, apparently, the life experience to play the role.
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emily_locatetv | 3 years, 3 months ago
Stuart Townsend. He was replaced by Viggo Mortensen because he was deemed to young to play the part of Aragorn.

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