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Lord Of The Rings Page

Sean Astin

On The Reshoots: "It started out a being a nice reminisense and then an old friend as well as the burden that you bore for a long time. But probably the thing that was crazy was that it seemed like no time had passed. Once I got back in the same clothes, the same ears, same feet, same clothes and same sets, you'd think, "Wasn't I here three years ago ? It was like suspended animation. It was both exhilirating to experience that and also terifying. What if I get stuck in this moment in time ? "

Brad Dourif And Billy Boyd

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Brad Dourif: "I play Grima Wormtongue. There's something about Grima. He's been picked on when he was a kid. He's so distrustful and he's so easily corrupted. He so ugly and he wants to love somebody. And he can't because nobody will have him. But he's so smart and so resourceful. There was something that fit there. There was something ugly and unresolved in him that gave me an inkling that I could do this guy. He stirs me a little."

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Billy Boyd: The day after I arrived, I met Richard Taylor at the Weta Workshop. I was compleyley spaced out..jet lagged. He opened this door to this room which had row after row of Rohan warriors uniforms. It's llike one of those sci-fi shots in a space ship where you see clones of people to the end. I just thought, "Oh My God." There's going to be people in every one of these things. You can go up to every one and see that it was hand stitched and made with love and not stamped in a machine. This was the day I thought this is something kind of incredible.

Brad Dourif: You just don't work for Peter (Jackson), you also work for Fran (Walsh) Peter might have one idea, then Fran may have another idea . Peter was happy with my first but I don't think Fran was. And Fran scared me more than Peter did. As a matter of fact I said that the second time I shot. I said."Peter, you don't scare me anymore but Fran, I really worried about the day." And he said, "She scared me too." It really was a thing of pleasing both. There's more than one place of shooting. He may have to be on one set. He's looking at you act in a monitor. And Fran is there. And there is another director there. You get your notes from Peter, then you go to the other place and get your notes from him and then from Fran. Then there's me I have to deal with. And I'm worst. I'm never happy.

Billy Boyd: A magical thing that Tolkien did was after the horror that Merry and Pippin have seen, the death of Boromir and losing Gandalf, it really has been an unbelievable time for the hobbits. What Tolkien then does is that they become prisoners of war. They're captured by these monsters you know that months before they never believe existed. Then Tolkien puts Merry and Pippin in the very heart of nature, they there with Treebeard which is the very essence of what a hobbit is. To be held by a tree, to see what that does to the hobbits. Then back into the war and losing each other.

Brad Dourif on Christopher Lee: He's an English gentleman to the core. First of all he sings Opera. Second of all he has been around and been in more movies then have been made.

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He's met everybody that ever lived. He knew Tolkien. He read the series every year since it was written.No one could not get anything past him.He knew it better than anybody working on the film. There was nobody there that knew it better than Christopher Lee. I don;'t think that he speaks Elfin. He's just short of that. I have met people at conventions who do. I just listened when I was around Christopher. It's fun to be around him and he's just wonderful to act with. All the great things that really really good actors have, he has all that. He's just English, all voice. Ian Holm. I didn't work with. I watched him. If you go on the set and Ian Holm is there don't go up and talk to him when he is about to work because he is in character. He's going to act as if you're not there. Afterwards, he's personable. Sir Ian McKellen will talk to you anytime, anywhere. He just has it. I really to work with Miranda (Otto) . She's going to be so good in this. She's a cannon. I knew it from the first second. You see people and they got the look. She would definately go to battle this girl.

Billy Boyd: I was never on set with Miranda. But what I had seen in the dailes and the rushes was incredible. She will be..She's got that mix of innocence and yet a warrior. She's an incredible character that people will love.

Brad Dourif: The notes that his son (Tolkien's son) were permantely displayed and read every word by Peter and Fran. I didn't read them. It's not good for me to do that kind of thing. I need to be freer than that. I read the books but it's not too good for me. I need to be alive, hopefully.

*Interview from press conferences for Billy Boyd & Brad Dourif conducted at Icon 20 & 21

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Podcasts

Billy Boyd
Pippin from Lord Of The Rings spoke at ICon about the trilogy and his views on life as a hobbit.
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Viggo Mortensen
Compiled from the radio roundtables from Fellowship Of The Ring nd Retrurn Of The King, the actor who plays a ranger-turned king speaks.
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Andy Serkis
From The Return Of The King Junket, Andy talks about playing Gollum by voice and movement.
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Sir Ian McKellen
Compiled from the radio roundtables from Fellowship Of The Ring nd Retrurn Of The King, The one and only Gandalf talks about playing this classic wizard..
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Elijah Wood

"You work on something so long and pour your heart and soul into it. And you know that everyone else poured their hearts and souls into it. It's this culmination of love and passion that really comes across in such a grand way. And the music is so wonderful and the performances are so great. It's really overwhelming. I have seen the movie twice and it's not any easier the second time. It's so much information to process. I think one of the more poignant moments when watching it was the credits because it was watching my life flash before my eyes literally.."

Sir Ian McKellen

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Gandalf is actually seven thousand years old though not a great deal is made of that in the movie. He's been sent down to help Middle Earth preserve itself. He has all the attributes of age hopefully. He's wise. He's been there. He's done that. He's very protective. He's got his frailties. But when he's focused, he's the right man for the job which is to help the Hobbits and destroy all the evil in the world.

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Viggo Mortensen

"He has these extra qualities. He has a longer life span for one. He lives to be two hundred and ten for one. But he can understand the languages of birds and beasts. He can summon the dead. He has these abilities. He has very good hearing and eyesight, and endurance. But like the Nordic heroes, he dosen't talk about it. I also could see as a modern sort of character as well, he has secret misgivings and self doubt and on some level, fear partly because of the knowledge that he has. He is a more widely traveled character than any other in Middle Earth."