Peter Jackson was a guest on ‘Open Mic with Mike Bullard’ tonight. He was of course promoting LOTR:FOTR. Sporting some chaki slacks and an orange polo top, you can basically call that ‘dressed up’ for the man. I love his clothes sense! 🙂

Peter was intelligent, candid and witty…the crowd loved him, any mention of his previous works was received with a loud round of applause.

Peter spoke about his journey making these films, and told Mike that there were times where he indeed was frassled by the pressure of the whole thing.

The host joked with him and told him he looks a bit like Harry Potter…and that he has a running bet with his music man on which film will make more money, PJ assured him that LOTR will ‘win the bet’.

Peter recounted the casting of Elijah, and how they spent 3 weeks in England looking for the right non-hollywood actor, when a package arrived with a video of Elijah, whom Peter had never heard of, decked out in a ‘cheesy’ Hobbit suit and a cockney english accent. In that video Peter said he found his Frodo.

Peter also told the tale of Viggo Mortensen and his surfing fiasco. As we all know, the Hobbit boys all became interested in surfing while filming the movies. One day, during the Moria shoot, they convinced Viggo Mortensen to try it, Viggo got a surf board to the face…and Peter was forced to film him from his left side for a few days…look for that during the Moria sequence!!

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John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was on ‘Open Mic with Mike Bullard’ tonight. [More]

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John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) was on ‘Open Mic with Mike Bullard’ tonight. John was as lively and sarcastic as ever. He mentioned that the airline hostess mistaked him for Pavarotti, and that he was once mistaken for Mr. T. He also mentioned how he loved New Zealand, and that New Zealand salmon was almost as good as its Canadian counterpart.

He demonstrated how he was on his knees plenty of time during the production. And how he fell flat on his face a few times while fighting. He also spoke about his time on Indiana Jones, and how he adores Pter Jackson.

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Access Hollywood had a small clip about the benefit screening of LOTR:FOTR in New York city last night. They spoke with Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen about the film, the fans and the bravado of making all 3 films at once. [More]

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Access Hollywood had a small clip about the benefit screening of LOTR:FOTR in New York city last night. They spoke with Liv Tyler, Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen about the film, the fans and the bravado of making all 3 films at once.

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Our Sean Astin (Sam) made an apperance on Rosie O’Donnel today. [More]

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