Yep. It's a bit of a trademark, actually, as he refuses to let them cover it with makeup or airbrush it from photos. Here's a quote I found about it:
He was 17 and drunk and at St. Lawrence University, and it was Halloween. "It was just one of those things," he says. "Just sort of clowning around. I grabbed somebody's deerskin rug from his house where this party was, and I think I grabbed some beer. Like, a six-pack. Maybe it was a case. It was just for a lark. And I was running through the bushes and being chased. Then I got shoved into a barbed-wire fence. Stupid, really. Nothing very spectacular or glamorous."
Once the barbed wire had done its work, there was just a film of skin holding his lip together. His friend took him to a clinic, where the doctor realized Viggo was too drunk to need an anaesthetic. He was quite a sight. For Halloween he had dressed as David Bowie on the cover of Aladdin Sane, with a red-and-blue lightning bold painted down the centre of his face where the barbed wire had done its damage. "It made a *beep* mess," he says. "The blood and the smeared lightning bolt."
The Rebel King Chris Heath, GQ magazine, Apr '04
Hopefully he's smarter now about how much beer he consumes while dressed up as David Bowie at Halloween parties!
That would have been, what, about 1975? Maybe someone had one of those snazzy new Polaroid SX-70 cameras and even now there's a slowly fading, bluish-tinted Polaroid of him stuck forgotten in a photo album somewhere. *g*
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Date: 2011-09-04 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-04 01:38 pm (UTC)He was 17 and drunk and at St. Lawrence University, and it was Halloween. "It was just one of those things," he says. "Just sort of clowning around. I grabbed somebody's deerskin rug from his house where this party was, and I think I grabbed some beer. Like, a six-pack. Maybe it was a case. It was just for a lark. And I was running through the bushes and being chased. Then I got shoved into a barbed-wire fence. Stupid, really. Nothing very spectacular or glamorous."
Once the barbed wire had done its work, there was just a film of skin holding his lip together. His friend took him to a clinic, where the doctor realized Viggo was too drunk to need an anaesthetic. He was quite a sight. For Halloween he had dressed as David Bowie on the cover of Aladdin Sane, with a red-and-blue lightning bold painted down the centre of his face where the barbed wire had done its damage. "It made a *beep* mess," he says. "The blood and the smeared lightning bolt."
The Rebel King
Chris Heath, GQ magazine, Apr '04
Hopefully he's smarter now about how much beer he consumes while dressed up as David Bowie at Halloween parties!
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Date: 2011-09-04 03:06 pm (UTC)I think in many ways, he still is! But hopefully less self-destructively...
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