Cast Interviews

Hobbit Cast Interviews

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Elijah Wood “Frodo Baggins” gives an interview to Kyle Buchanan in nymag.com

Reprising his role as Frodo Baggins

It’s interesting to note, as theonering.net points out, that if he is going to the U. K. to shoot first, then it could be that Christopher Lee’s principal photography would be taken at the same time. On the other hand, it is a possibility that Wood was talking about shooting for another film in the U. K.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

When do you go back to New Zealand to shoot The Hobbit?
October. I’m going to the U.K. first to do some shooting, but then I’m going down in October for the New Zealand part.

At what point did you realize you were going to be a part of this prequel?
I had some notion of it over a year ago. Peter and Fran [Walsh] had mentioned the possibility of something that they’d written. At the time, Guillermo [del Toro] was directing. I didn’t read anything, and we didn’t go into too much detail as to what it was going to be, but they’d sort of conceived of this idea of where it could work.

So Frodo will essentially be used as a framing device?
I don’t know that it is. One could probably ascertain or conjecture that it is, because Frodo’s not chronologically in The Hobbit, so I don’t know how else it could exist unless it was just the framing device, unless it was potentially in the middle or the end. To me it makes sense if it’s bookends, but I really don’t know.

So how do you feel knowing that you’ll be back on that set? And that you’ll be directed by Peter Jackson now, not Guillermo?
Oh man, it’s exciting. It’s exciting because it just feels like a ten-year anniversary in a way. A family reunion of sorts. And it’s incredibly unique that a large number of people who were involved with the Rings are involved with The Hobbit: on the crew, on a creative level, and a number of the cast. So it’s going to be very surreal. It’s a unique opportunity to revisit a major part of my life.

How did you feel when Rings ended for the first time? Dominic Monaghan has said that he entered a post-Rings slump.
Yeah, when principal photography was finished and in our minds the journey was over, I didn’t know really what to make of my own life anymore. My life was so defined by that place and those people and that experience.

It’s quite literally like another world that you were in.
Totally. So coming home, I just remember everything feeling kind of foreign. I didn’t really know what to do with my time. It was really bizarre. I was more exhausted than I’ve ever been in my life. I remember feeling like I didn’t want to do anything for a while.

Is that atypical for you?
I always feel like after a project, I definitely want to take a break. It’s always hard for me to jump right into something else. But that feeling was special, it was unique. I didn’t want to work for a while. I wanted to rest, I wanted to be home. But I also just didn’t have any perspective on my life anymore, what that was about. It’s kind of an unsettled feeling. It’s like existing in a place and then being ripped out of it when that place was your home, it was your everything to you for a long time. Sixteen months is a long time. I was 18 when I traveled to New Zealand, and I was about 20 when I left. That’s a fucking huge chunk. You know, major life-changing ages, too. Developmental age time.

Did you feel like you got typecast as Frodo?
Not as Frodo. I mean, I’m 30, but I don’t look 30. So I think that had more to do with it than Frodo necessarily. There’s obviously a very strong association with Frodo, but I think I felt like I was, if anything, more hindered by the fact that I looked younger than I was, and that people may not imagine me playing my age.

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Elijah Wood Discusses his entry in The Hobbit

Elijah Wood on his role in The Hobbit Films

Reprising his role as Frodo Baggins

TheOneRing.net confirms the way in which Elijah Wood shall begin his role as Frodo Baggins in the movies being made as I write this.

 

If you do not wish to read a spoiler to the movie please do not read further.

 

As readers of “The Hobbit” know, the tale of “The Downfall of The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit or There and Back Again,” are contained in the fictional “Red Book of Westmarch.” In Peter Jackson’s LOTR films, the book is shown on screen and written in by Bilbo and Frodo and handed off to Sam Gamgee.

 

The fictional book, and either the telling from it or the reading of it, will establish Frodo in the films experiencing Bilbo’s story. Viewers are to learn the tale of ‘The Hobbit’ as a familiar Frodo gets the tale as well.

 

Since the speculation is now everywhere around the interwebs, TORn can confirm that as of now, the plans are to feature Frodo in the opening sequence of the films. It is unlikely that studio Warner Bros. or Team Jackson would change the script at this point in response to the web buzz so we may have just “spoiled” December 2012 for some, but we warned you.

 

In this vid from ontheredcarpet.com we see Elijah Wood talking about a bit of what fans will be seeing in the films to come.

http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/video?id=8210135

And here we have Elijah with Jimmy Fallon discussing The Hobbit Films.

Exclusive: Elijah Wood on The Hobbit

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Reprising his role as Frodo Baggins

Who’s even more excited than you to get his first glimpse of Peter Jackson’s new two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit? Elijah Wood, that’s who. The actor, who played Frodo Baggins in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, will be reprising the role in some capacity as the prequel films follow the early Middle Earth adventures of his uncle Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman (he’ll be joined by other original castmembers, including Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis and Orlando Bloom).

Wood gave ComingSoon.net a sense of what he’s looking forward to as he re-dons his beloved Hobbit feet.

ComingSoon.net: Just a couple of days ago, I spoke with Orlando Bloom and he said he had received the full script for “The Hobbit” films.
Elijah Wood: He did? I’ve not read it yet. No, no, no.

CS: What are you most excited about to have the opportunity to be a part of the prequels? Since it wasn’t necessarily built into the original novel that you guys from the “Rings” films would be there.
Wood: Yeah, not at all. Look, I’m just looking forward to going back to New Zealand and spending a bit of time there. There will be plenty of old friends that will be a part of it. Largely I would imagine the entire crew would be relatively the same. So in some ways I think it’s going to be a very surreal journey. It will feel like traveling back in time a little. But I’m excited. There’s a lot of new elements to this. They’re shooting on the Red [camera]. They’re shooting in 3D, so that should be interesting. And I’m excited to read the script. I’m very excited to see what they’ve done with “The Hobbit.” They’ve stretched it out over the course of two films – I’m so curious as to what other elements they’ve woven in, because there are certainly additional works that refer to that same time period that they could weave into it. So I’m just very excited to sort of see what the ultimate vision is. I was down there about a year ago, February, and I saw some of the design. This is when Guillermo [del Toro] was still attached. So I’ve seen a lot of the design work. I mean, it’s extraordinary! And Alan Lee and John Howe are back in the art department doing designs for it. I think it’s going to feel very familiar, and different as well.

CS: And you’ll probably go down to New Zealand to shoot at the end of the year?
Wood: Yeah. Around December or November.

CS: Okay. And when’s the last time you were all together? Because you guys traveled the world together.
Wood: It was probably 2003 when we were all together. I mean I’ve seen Peter and I’ve been to New Zealand a few times since. And I’ve seen Viggo and, you know, we all are kind of connected. But in terms of all of us being together in one space – probably 2003.

CS: And you all got symbolic tattoos while filming the original trilogy – maybe you’ll add another on “The Hobbit”?
Wood: Yeah, right – Maybe!

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