RadioTimes recently chatting with Aidan Turner (Kili) about his show ‘Being Human’ and of course a bit about The Hobbit. The good bits are below, check out the whole interview here.
Do you worry about being typecast?
Nah, as I’m about to fly to New Zealand for The Hobbit [Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel]. That’ll get me out of the typecasting pretty quickly. I’m to play Kili the dwarf, so it’s to be long beards and prosthetics from now on.
Does that mean you won’t be in the fourth series of Being Human?
I don’t really know yet. We’re shooting The Hobbit for a good year and a half – until midway through 2012 – but I think I get six weeks off, so we might work something out.
TORN Spy Merie sends along these images which purport to be Aidan Turner’s pre-production stills for The Hobbit. Taken for the prosthetics crew in New Zealand. Basically these are images used as reference points for the crew to use when making makeup for Aidan in the film. These help the crew and avoid keeping the actor in a makeup chair for hours and hours. Aidan Turner will be playing the dwarf Kili which we know from LOTR will require extensive makeup. Thanks Merie!
Sir Peter Jackson and his crew are on a Queenstown-based location scout of the South Island this week. Sir Peter’s assistant at Wingnut Films, Matt Dravitzki, yesterday said his boss was not available for interviews while he was in the South Island because the team were on a gruelling location scout. “Location scouting for The Hobbit is currently under way in both the North and South Islands.