ORC Day Three Report
Ringer Celebriel reports Sunday’s highlights included main stage sessions with Billy Boyd and Miranda Otto, as well as the chance to see a rare first hard cover edition of The Lord of the Rings autographed by J.R.R. Tolkien, on display at the Red Carpet Tours booth.
Billy Boyd
Billy was in top form and really seemed to enjoy sharing stories and answering fan questions. In terms of upcoming projects, he will be working with the National Theatre of Scotland (Billy is a patron of the Scottish Youth Theatre and the organization is supported by his Loons Charities) and there are some film projects in the works as well. (The National Theatre of Scotland launches February 25th with ten performances opening simultaneously in venues across the country – Billy will appear in a piece recreating an MI5-style surveillance operation in a high rise in Soutra Place, Glasgow.)
Some stories and facts about Billy I hadn’t heard before:
-Billy once locked Dom in the cupboard of his trailer because Dom brought him the wrong flavor of Haagen Dasz ice cream. Note to fans: it’s OK to bring chocolate, but not chocolate ice cream.
-While filming Master and Commander, Billy was accidentally hit in the legs almost every time Russell Crowe swung his sword.
-Other than Pippin, the role he would like to have played is Gollum, because of the creativity and technology he knew the part would require to be successful.
– Billy’s Fellowship tattoo is on his ankle, which seemed appropriate because the role had so much to do with feet. However, because it was done a few weeks before the end of principal photography, he was still wearing hobbit feet on the set, and having the glue in the unhealed wounds from the tattoo was not fun.
-Billy is a big fan of both Peter Sellers and George Harrison
About the only question Billy couldn’t answer was identifying the most unusual gift he’d received from a fan, but he said he’d think about it!
Miranda Otto
This was Miranda’s first US convention appearance, and fans greeted her enthusiastically and with many questions about her role as Eowyn. Many questions concerned Eowyn’s complex relationships with other characters. Miranda talked about the changes in the relationship between Aragorn and Eowyn that were made in the films, noting the films kept the relationship ambiguous, keeping open the possibility they could get together while in the books Aragorn respects and likes Eowyn but makes clear he is pledged to another. Miranda feels Eowyn believed Arwen was going or had gone into the west, so she saw Aragorn as a free man.
She enjoyed working with Brad Dourif (Wormtongue) and felt that their scenes effectively created a complex emotional backstory in which Gryma had probably loved her for years and was the one person really paying attention to her while others, including her own family, were occupied with other things. Their scenes communicate the simultaneous feelings of attraction and repulsion she felt for him.
Miranda noted that one basis for Eowyn and Merry’s close relationship was that both were often belittled and overlooked among the Rohirrim.
She also enjoyed working with Bernard Hill (Theoden), explaining that Theoden’s departure scene, in which he asked her to be responsible for the kingdom, was filmed on the last day of principal photography and his death scene was done on the last day of reshoots, making them especially poignant.
Miranda had her own stories about the rewrites and reshoots that characterized life as a Lord of the Rings actor. She got the lines for the song sung in Theodred’s funeral scene only the day before, and they weren’t planned to be a song. She and other women were filmed chanting the lines, and only later was the final song recorded. The work was often hard both emotionally and physically. For example, Eowyn’s reaction shot after seeing Legolas return the Evenstar to Aragorn was done on a reshoot, without the other actors present. Often she played to ping pong balls on sticks. Examples of physical hard work were many bruises on her legs from falling, and being crushed by Karl Urban’s armor in their scene together on Pelennor Fields.
Miranda revealed that Eowyn’s horse Dublin was a gelding originally acquired for Viggo Mortensen but then given to her. Dublin was later sold to a very caring owner – when the horse was brought back for reshoots, he had gained a lot of weight. She also mentioned a fight sequence in the Glittering Caves that was filmed but not used – hmmm, perhaps we’ll see it in some future DVD anniversary release!
Lord of the Rings Signed First Edition on Display – And For Sale
ORC guests had the rare opportunity to see a first United Kingdom edition (1954/1955) of the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings signed by J.R.R. Tolkien (the signature is tipped in front of the title page). The three volumes were on display Sunday at the Red Carpet Tours booth. The Los Angeles area-based owner has had them for about fifteen years and is now offering the set for $22,500.
Dork of the Rings
Dork of the Rings Director Jack Peterson and cast members were in evidence in the main stage room and elsewhere in the hall and held court at their booth in the vendor’s room. Ringers need a new film every year, and 2006 is the year of Dork of the Rings, so sign up for their newsletter to stay informed on plans for the film’s official release.
Dork of the Rings Website
Jack’s Blog
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ErinRua writes: I’ve posted just over one hundred ORC 2006 event photos, if you would like to share them with fellow Ringers. These are mainly costumes and the actors’ panels. I promised several of the costume folks that I would try to get their photos online for them, so if you would like to announce this link, it would be a great favor. 🙂 This was my first convention ever, and I had the absolute time of my life! Thank you, TORn! [More]
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Arwen: Check out these great pictures of all three days of The One Ring Celebration 2006 at Genrefans.com – including Red Carpet Tours’ presentation, Daniel Reeve, the Iron Artist Challenge, the Costume Contest, John Noble, Elijah Wood and Sean Astin, The One Ring Awards show, Billy Boyd (charity breakfast and stage Q&A), and Miranda Otto. [More]
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John NobleCelebriel reports: Before talking about John Noble, I just want to mention that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin announced they are returning to New Orleans for Mardi Gras for the Krewe of Bacchus – it’s a great opportunity to see them, enjoy Mardi Gras, and contribute to the recovery of New Orleans (Mardi Gras site)
John Noble
If you enjoy hearing actors talk about their craft, you’ll want to see John Noble every chance you get. John, with a long list of stage, screen, and television credits, has worked as a stage director and drama teacher. He’s appeared in commercials and corporate presentations, and even (once) in an opera.
At his Saturday appearance at ORC, fans had many questions about his portrayal of Denethor and about his current and future projects.
John’s been busy since completing The Lord of the Rings. He has three films due out this year. Running Scared, a noir film directed by Wayne Kramer, opened this month in the UK and opens February 24 in the US. In it, John plays a psychotic Russian mob boss who’s killed by his stepson in a particularly gory explosive death.
In May, the epic historical drama One Night with the King: The Call of Destiny (no, this is NOT about Aragorn– it’s based on the biblical story of Esther) directed by Michael Sabjel and also starring John Rhys-Davies, Omar Sharif, and Peter O’Toole is due for release. Based on the trailer, the film has gorgeous production design, sets, and costumes and so if you tend to like big epic pictures with, uh, gorgeous production design, sets, and costumes, you might want to give it a look.
The third film is Nick Cohen’s horror film Voodoo Lagoon, filmed in Australia, about college kids on a tropical isle.Once again, John has a great death scene, in which his son plucks out his beating heart.
His recent television work includes an appearance in Stargate SG-1 (“Camelot,” due to air March 10, according to IMDB) and a run on the Australia soap opera, Home and Away, in which, John says, “I play a really evil man for a change.”
In 2006 he’s headed for Serbia to appear in Conflict, a thriller directed by John Ireland, filmed in English and Serbo-Croatian, in which he once again plays the father of two sons. Also on tap is a film in England, in which he plays the Devil.
John is an actor who believes in thorough preparation, a slow infiltration into his role, taking on voice, gesture, and working with props, so that when he goes before the camera it’s not really acting – he IS the character. During the wardrobe and makeup process each day he became Denethor. In John’s view, “the craft is about getting inside a character and playing that truth,” regardless of medium.
John was always interested in playing Denethor because of the complexity of the character and its King Lear-ish quality, saying, “the greatest gift you can give an actor is a role like that.” In the end, he lived with the character for nearly five years, from the readings in early 1999 through the start of filming in October 2000 and the return to do the ADR three years later, saying it was a challenge to get back into the character and deliver the dialogue after all that time.
John enjoyed the many challenges of playing Denethor. It was tough to move around in the heavy costume. Also, Denethor’s language comes straight from Tolkien and requires difficult, technical articulation. Getting the right voice creates the character and enables the actor to generate deep emotions. John, and Peter Jackson, had to deal with the challenge of introducing a major character late in the piece. One challenge was to make people care about Denethor – to do this, John worked hard to communicate his complexity and his history.
John maintains passionately that Denethor was not evil – “a great man who made poor choices, but like many characters, they seemed like good choices at the time.” To just see him as evil reduces his complexity. Denethor, like most characters in The Lord of the Rings, has a huge backstory involving the death of his wife, his longstanding concern about Faramir’s closeness to Gandalf, his concerns over many years that Gandalf was preparing to bring back Isildur’s heir, and his resentment that he, Denethor, has been doing the hard job of keeping the country together while Aragorn remained undecided for many decades about his fate.
He sees Denethor as having different expectations for each of his sons. Boromir, his heir, is strong and powerful, just like him, while Faramir, his younger son, more sensitive, scholarly, and influenced by Gandalf, is just tolerated. Why does Denethor agree he would rather Faramir had died? Because in his current state, he has nothing left to live for, as he believes the kingdom is doomed. Also, says John, it was the simple answer: another answer would have open up a host of questions. He chose isolation as a way to convey Denethor’s mental state – the character speaks only to Gandalf, Pippin, and Faramir and seems to live in the throne room.
John says he’s glad he didn’t know when he signed on to play Denethor how big the fan base was, and how huge and involved the online fan base would become during the production and release of the films. ”I would have been terrified!” he says.
John didn’t get nearly as many personal questions as Elijah, Sean, or Billy. He admitted he enjoys playing the guitar and singing, and his taste often runs to broody songs by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. (No doubt Denthor would approve!) John has two daughters and a son, and his elder daughter Samantha has already begun her acting career.
While John never received a prop or clapper from the production for his time on set, he considers his 2004 Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast for The Return of the King, which he shared with 18 other principal cast members, to be his special memento.
John’s website: johnnoble.net
You can access trailers for all three upcoming films here, or separately through IMDB.
Another story about John from Dragon*Con 2005.
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Silver Star writes: My notes + best recollections, but it’s NOT a transcript, please make that clear!
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Good afternoon. Hi. Welcome to “Pippin in Pasadena”. Should we do question and answer or should I just make up a story?
[various audience yells]
Did I hear a perfect C sharp there?
[Billy opens water, is quiet] I forgot where I was for a moment, I’ll tell you what my thought process. I was thinking about this microphone, I was thinking that it’s this big, but then they also make them really small. I was wondering everything be shrunk and still work the same? [holds his fingers rather close together — audience slightly raucous laughter]
[Billy sees the woman wearing the Japanese coat auctioned in the morning.] Is that my kimono? No, it’s not a kimono, I can’t remember the real name for it.
[Japanese person in audience: Ha-pi] Oh, ha-pi, ha-pi.
Q: In Urban Ghost Story, you played an evil character, what is the most fun thing and hardest thing of playing someone so despicable
[microphone cuts out]
It seems if I press my thigh, the mic goes off and if I press the other side, my shirt falls off. [audience laughter and catcalls]
Playing that kind of character … as an actor you get slightly typecast, it’s nice to break out… independent film, the filmmakers have more flexibility while the studios don’t.
In that film, it was hard, there were a couple of kids involved, [rough?]language.. There was some stuff that was even worse that didn’t make film
When you have the character, it comes naturally. It was good fun doing that, I enjoyed that film.
[Billy gets distracted] Ha-pi. I knew it wasn’t a kimono. In Japan, [at the Return of the King premiere] there was a big barrel of sake, You had to break it with a hammer, Pete Jackson broke it. And then Dom tried to jump into it. I had to hold him back. He wanted to bathe in sake. [much audience laughter]
Q. In the blooper reel we saw, there was no Billy and no Dom.
That’s strange, because when I heard they were doing the blooper reels, there’s one that they showed at the wrap party, at the end of principle photography, there was plenty of me and Dom.
When you’re waiting around, you get bored. There was person making the behind-the-scenes film, Dom and I would call that person over and [do a little skit]. There’s one where I locked Dom in the cupboard, [I invited them into my trailer], and all the time I was talking, and there was a tap, tap, tap [mimes tapping]. He’d got me the wrong flavor of Haagen Daas.
Q: What’s the right flavor?
The right flavor: anything with nuts, except walnuts. He got me chocolate, I like ice cream, I like chocolate, but I don’t like chocolate ice cream. [shrugs and makes a face]
Q: Greetings from Seattle. We’re still waiting for you to plant your flag on the space needle.
I will!
How high is that? I’m not good with heights.
During Master and Commander, there was a scene, we’re on the top of the crow’s nest. It was supposed to be on the deck, but we got there that morning, and they told us up there. Russell Crowe’s got this big sword, and the space was very small [demonstrates on the stage] Every time Russell Crowe comes by he hits me on the leg with his sword. It was about five hundred feet down, I was holding on with one hand.
[walks to the stage stairs, holds the bannister] I always hold on. [much laughter]
Q: [bit about the Scottish Parliament building]
It cost a lot, I think they got more expensive carpets.
Q: favorite part of Scotland?
The West Coast, Fingol’s cave. I think we should paint up the cave. [bits I missed]
It was lovely to talk to you, quite surreal, but lovely.
[Turns around, sees his back view on the big screen. JUST LIKE ELIJAH, Billy pulled up his shirt and tucked his shirt into the back of his trousers. He played with his hand, wiggled it around, flexed, moved it over his arse, flexed it as though he was going to grab himself, back and forth from his side for quite a long time. Audience screaming, with a notable soprano note to the laughter.]
Q: When Pippin told Treebeard to go south, did he do it expecting something to happen?
Totally that, it was part of showing a character maturing. The writers wanted to show that. Because Merry is trying so hard to convince Treebeard, he’s trying so hard, that, sorry, he couldn’t see the wood for the trees. So after he told me that the Shire could be destroyed, it comes to me [to do something]. I like the idea that Pippin gets the idea that actually changes Treebeard. He’s been listening to Treebeard, he gets Treebeard, he knows he has to do it. After they come out of the forest, he apologizes to Treebeard, he says sorry.
Q: what about your CD?
I just can’t find enough time to rehearse it, we’re writing quite a lot of stuff. Just enjoying it very much.
[Showing off: puts his water bottle in his between his heels, jumps and and flips it up, catches it. Then throws his bottle over his shoulder and fails to catch it.]
Q: what are your future projects?
Quite a few things. I don’t like to talk about things until they’re actually happening. You say you’re going to do something and people ask you why didn’t you do it? You say you’re going to plant a flag in Seattle and they ask why you didn’t, and you have to say “I’m a liar.”
The Scottish National Theatre, I’ve been involved in getting in started, it would be odd not to work there.
[Laughs] “I’ll help you with theatre but I won’t work you”
[missing bit]
The French horn. You have to play it with your hand up it, that’s weird. [bit of mime and jokes about the horn] If I was designing it it would have a handle. If I was designing it, it wouldn’t be French, it would be Scottish.
I’m going to tell you a joke, my favorite joke ever. Oh, I’ve talked up so much it’s going to be rubbish.
When I was younger, I had a trumpet tree in my garden. But a man from the council came and rooti-ti-tout. [in American: root-toot-toot-ooot]
You’ll be thinking about it at night, lying in bed, thinking oh, rooted it out!
Q: Dom says you watch Laurel and Hardy movies, what’s your favorite?
Ijust got it, they now have a box set of everything they ever made, five million hours, brilliant. I love that Stan Laurel can light his thumb, if they need a fire. I love Way out West, I love all the movies. I could watch them for hours watching them getting a piano up a staircase.
Peter Sellers, I could watch him as well.
Q: Elijah was talking about pranks, what was the best prank?
Best prank, probably, was the game Tig Tag, not because it was best, but just cos it it went on so long. Three months later, Elijah came up and said “why don’t we ever play Tig?” [audience laughter]
Elijah’s such a lovely guy, open and innocent, it’s almost to easy.
Orlando, you’ve got to be a bit more sly to get him. But we got him.
Q: Could you quote one of Pippin’s lines in an American accent
[In American accent:] I wish I knew how to quit you! That’s not Pippin. That’s Brokeback Mountain isn’t it. [audience laughter]
Pippin is so kind of in that voice, It would be kindof weird to do it.
[Asks questioner to do it, she says “Second Breakfast” in a Scottish accent, laughter all around.]
Q: Come to Oregon and go windsurfing.
I’m going up to plant a flag, paint a cave…
I don’t like windsurfing, you can’t rest, you have to hold onto it all the time. On the surfboard, you can sit, have a chat, a dolphin could come by [makes dolphin jump motion with his hand]
Q: In the scene with Pippin and Gandalf, talking about death, your neck pulses. Did you do that on purpose.
I don’t have that kind of body control. I think it’s just, hopefully as an actor you try to be in the moment you know, and if you’re working with a great actor like Ian… And the lines, the first time I read that scene I cried. The lines written by Tolkien and by Fran Walsh. [mentions issues of dealing with hobbit sizes: camera tricks, green screens.] For that one, we just sat down, and it happened to work.
Q; What scene makes you most proud, what would you have wanted to change?
I’m very proud of that scene with Gandalf. Proud of the relationship of Merry and Pippin, hope it came across. Hopefully by the end when he finds him on the battle field, the relationship has all been leading up to it.
What I’d like to do again, do it again [New Zealand is] a beautiful country
Q: Did you know there’s snow in Chicago?
Let’s go plant a flag!
[Billy moves chair] Repositioning things, it’s like a chess game up here.
Q: no matter how much I’ve watched you on TV, you’re more [adorable?] in person.
Oh gosh, thank you.
Q: If not Pippin, what character would you have liked to have played? And what would it take for a girl to win your heart?
[Billy clowns a little]
I’d like to have done Gollum. That was exciting, the first time that technology had been used, as well as being amazingly written character. When I read the books, it just jumped out.
To win my heart – chocolate, ice cream, but not chocolate ice cream. I don’t know. Strange isn’t it, attraction. It’s chemical, biological, you don’t know [why]. You don’t pick who to fall in love with. [American accent:] Ah wish ah knew how to quit you.
Q: [Brings Seed of Chuckie doll up] Could you make the doll talk?
Cute little fellah.
[Glenn voice:] I don’t know who I am, I don’t know if I’m a boy or a girl.
I’ve never seen one of those. He’s quite the sexy one
[Billy asks questioner:] was that painful that tattoo? I’ve often thought of having a tattoo there [forearm]. Someone, the girl who did my makeup for a long time on the Lord of the Rings, called Margaret, had a boyfriend, who’s now her husband, and they have two kids. [how much time has gone by] He had a tattoo that was great, a mountain that became a wave. It was supposed to go right round, but he stopped, it was too painful.
Q: Do you hate getting asked the same things all the time?
I’m not getting asked the same things over and over. A lot of the questions I’ve been asked today, I’ve never been asked before
Q: How did you go from bookbinding to acting?
I was just bored, really really bored. I used to be a bookbinder, I enjoyed it when I was learning, but then I went to a big place [and was bored.] So I left, hung about down at the Florida keys. It’s a good place to hang about: hot, wet.
[then he got into Drama school and went back to Glasgow]
[I’m missing a bit]
Q: Do you really hate cinnamon?
I hate cinnamon: smell, taste, everything about cinnamon. I don’t mind chewing gum, Big Red, but doesn’t taste like cinnamon. I don’t know why I hate it so much. When I was younger, we were going to Six Flags or something. My cousin made me cinnamon toast that morning, and I was sick on the roller coaster. It might not have been the cinnamon but the two are connected in my mind.
It’s the first thing you smell when you get off the plane in LA, is cinnamon, there’s a cinnabon place.
But if you see me in the street, and say have a bit of Big Red, I’ll say yeah. It doesn’t taste like cinnamon to me, it tastes like anise. I quite like anise.
Q: Do you like World Without Sundays?
What a great band!
Q: What was the strangest or most unusual gift you’ve gotten?
I get a lot of stuff that’s quite strange… I quite like that I mention in an interview that you like something, you get get it. I should say I like whiskey! I said I like scarves, I got scarves for a long time.
Q: Is it harder or easier to play a character based on a book?
Kindof a bit of both, actually. Sometimes it’s nice, you can go back [and check]. If it says in the book the character can be funny, you can be funny. [something about not funny]
It’s also fun, when you have the script, you have the freedom to make it up. A bit of both, really
[back to French horn] If there’s a blacksmith, or a metalsmith, you could make a handle for French horns.
Q What would you play in a marching band?
Is there a French horn? Really? [Something about holding it up.]
Cancel the handle!
It’s not a French horn, it’s a ‘mellophone’.
Q: What instruments do you play?
A little bit of guitar, a little bit of bass, a little drums, a little mouth organ.
I used to have a binatone, it’s a keyboard from the 80s. I can play the theme from Superman, and Beautiful Dreamer.
[teases the questioner, a teenager who plays flute in marching band] It’s easier to carry, can put it in your bag, can’t do that with a French horn, even if you have a handle.
Mellophone, remember it rhymes with ‘deep groan’
Q: What’s you’re favorite Beatles song?
Favorite ever ever Beatles song, that’s so hard, that’s the same like your favorite movie. I like “Something”. I like George Harrison songs, “Two of Us”, I really like. I’m going to say “Across the Universe”, which rhymes with ‘just a slightly bit perverse’
I almost went right off the stage there.
Q: About sound production, ADR, Peter Jackson’s sound awesome. Was Billy’s background with music helpful?
ADR, for anyone who doesn’t know, you’ll film the scene, but have to do additional dialog recording. Because in some scenes, you know there’ll be a fan on to make wind, or other noise. Some actors don’t enjoy it cos you have to re-create the scene. I like it cos you have a chance to revisit it.
I quite enjoy it, even for emotion scenes. Except for, you have to do breathing and such like, if you have to do running scenes [takes deep breath, pants] It’s always at the end of the day, you end up really dizzy, hyperventilating.
I was working with a camera man once, he’d been in the business for twenty five years, and for twenty of those, he’s been waiting for sound. Sound guys are always going “I can hear an aeroplane”
[Effective sound example: in Moria, after Pippin knocks down the skeleton] it was very quiet, you could hear breathing.
Because film is quite a visual experience, people forget how great sound is, but sound makes a movie definitely.
Q: Who was your best friend on the set?
That would probably be Dom. Me, Dom, Elijah, Orlando, we all kinda hung out together. But Dom most, cos his house was closest to me. I had an internal switch, seem to be listening to Dom [nods, looks interested] but really I was listening to my internal music. We liked a lot of the same things, playing pool, watching movies.
Q; Of all you experiences, which would you relive?
So many great things. I loved, after we come out of Moria, on top of that mountain, so beautiful, I can’t even say. It was a place of natural significance, I think I just made that up, I don’t think that’s the real thing, but, natural significance. Not many people were allowed up there, just cameraman, sound, actors, maybe a makeup person. We spent a couple of days up there, beautiful.
Q: How were the premieres?
The premieres are great, but hard work. Doing one in new york, then you have to go to the party afterwards, sounds like fun, but it’s work. But all the crowds, and people energy, the n next day on on the plane…
Q: What was your favorite costume?
The Gondorian uniform, it was sexy, strolling around the set. [strolls across stage] Kicking Viggo, knocking him off his horse. It was really comfortable, the chain mail was plastic, so it didn’t weigh anything. There were a lot of layers, so it took quite a lot of time to get on in the morning and off in the evening. The sword was on this kind of X thing, and it kept slipping down. It’s really annoying, when you’re in the middle of a battle, and it keeps slipping down!
Audience: SPEED ROUND
I thought you said ‘spin round’, like Wonder Woman.
Q: Your music career, when did you start and how?
I played in a band when I was at school, like 14, with some guys, we played music for like 10 years. Actually, two of them are still playing with me now [Audience: awww] I don’t know if that’s worth an awww. [laughter] One of them has a kitten! [Audience: awww]
Q: What is your favorite color?
Blue!
Q: asking all the actors, because I’m going to paint my house.
Billy: I’m going to paint a cave! [audience laughter]
Q: Last year, Dom told us to ask about ‘door, x, triangle’, what can you tell us?
Very little then. We were in Hawaii last year: dom, elijah, other people, guys from World Without Sundays, random people who were there. I’m not a big playstation player, I get bored. Some of these guys can play until they’re physically sick. [description of the stages of playstation addiction] When they get to that point they can only speak, “cross select zero triangle”! The house we were in the door didn’t close, we had to yell, ‘door’, or a mosquito comes in, bites you, you get malaria…
Q: In the Return of the King, there’s a publicity photo from the Black Gate where Merry is hurt and Pippin is holding him.
The battle at the Black Gates, there, we did a lot of what they call ‘pops’, of battle things happening, which might have been Viggo going through three orcs. And one of the things was that Dom gets hurt by an axe and falls to the ground and I grab him and I’m calling for help. [they decided they didn’t need it] It’s a little piece of battle footage that they used as still.
Q: It’s the opposite of Merry holding Pippin coming out of Moria. [Billy agrees]
Q: About the Fellowship tattoo
I did, actually, but when we got the tattoo, I’m sure everyone knows the nine of us got an Elvish tattoo of the number nine. Because the job has so much to do with feet [I decided to get mine on my ankle]. I was the first one to get it, everyone thought Viggo would go first but he [dithered around] so I went ahead.
Q: Show it?
I made a promise to myself not to show on camera, and there’s at least one camera here. [applause]
What I didn’t think of, was doing it about two weeks before the end of principal photography, it was painful. An open wound, putting on glue! Don’t do that.
Q: Your favorite movie growing up?
When I was growing up, my sort of Lord of the Rings was Star Wars, I loved all the characters. I love comedy, Peter Sellers.
[finishing up]
I want to invent a handle for the French horn!
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