Ringer Spy Ravyneyez sends along these scans from the April issue of GQ Magazine. It features Viggo Mortensen on the cover and had an in-depth article on him. [More]
Month: April 2004
Laurelin writes: The Topps ‘ROTK Collectors’ Update Edition’ is now available for pre-sale at Potomac Distribution. They always seem to have the best prices for boxes or cases. It looks like there will be an all-new 72-card base set, 10 costume cards, and three autographs: Peter Jackson, Mark Ordesky and Sala Baker. [More]
AELFWINE writes: I found information about the Howard Shore discussion panel: A conversation with Academy Award®-winning Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore about setting Middle Earth to a sweeping score worthy of all its epic battles, touching moments and thrilling victories. Moderated by Film Score Monthly writer Doug Adams. [More]
Pip Of Tuckborough writes: I thought you might like this article that has a snippit of Billy in it. It is at sundayherald.com and is about halfway down the page. Here is what it has to say about him. [More]
Pip Of Tuckborough writes: I thought you might like this article that has a snippit of Billy in it. It is at sundayherald.com and is about halfway down the page. Here is what it has to say about him:
He’s wee, but he’s harder than Viggo
They say the movie business is all glamour, but Billy Boyd knows better. Interviewed for today’s Sunday Herald magazine about his friend Viggo Mortensen, the Scottish actor – who plays Pippin in the Lord Of The Rings movies – was asked about the rumour that Mortensen had had a tooth knocked out during a fight scene and demanded that he be allowed to glue it back in and carry on filming. “People love these stories,” sighed Boyd, confirming that it was true. “But nobody talks about the day that I got two fillings without any anaesthetic, and the pain was so much that my hobbit feet fell off.”
Apparently, Boyd had an emergency appointment with the dentist, but because he had lines to deliver in the afternoon, asked that his mouth not be numbed. So agonising was the drilling and filling, however, that he began to sweat so profusely that the glue holding his prosthetic feet on was washed away and they slipped to the floor.
The irony is that when Boyd returned to the set he had to spend so long in make-up having the appendages reattached that he might as well have been waiting for the anaesthetic to wear off. “I thought that was a bigger moment than Viggo getting a tooth knocked out,” said Boyd, trying to recover some dignity from the situation. “That was a spur of the moment thing. I had to commit to my pain.” Which – needless to say – we share.
It could almost be a scene from Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King. Two decapitated winged creatures called Fell Beasts and their evil Nazgul masters lie silently in an isolated field. Only this time, it is right next to Wellington’s main rubbish dump. The 20-metre-long beast and smaller five-metre one are the same two nasties that had been perched atop the Embassy and Reading cinemas from November last year for the world premiere of The Return of the King. But more than a week ago they were removed. [More]