‘The Hobbit’ discussion continues as The MTV Movie Blog has caught up with LOTR cast member Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee). Check out what everyone’s favorite savior or Middle-earth has to say:

Cate Blanchett talk Hobbit“I’ve said since before we started making the movies and have never wavered for a second that ‘The Hobbit’ would get made,” Sean Astin — who portrayed Samwise Gamgee — insisted, while out promoting his new film, “The Final Season.” “The fanbase wants it. There’s too much money to be made doing it. It seems like maybe the time is now.”

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MTV Movie Blog Discuss

Earlier this month Viggo Mortensen was a guest on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’. He was there to promote his new film ‘Eastern Promises’. Take a look at the clips below for that interview!

Entertainment Weekly on 'Eastern Promises' Roheryn writes: The latest Entertainment Weekly article hails Viggo Mortensen’s infamous bathhouse brawl in the buff as the harbinger of a new age of naked fight scenes. Huzzah!

Buff and Tumble

It makes sense to pay attention NEW YORK (AP) — Viggo Mortensen is looking out the window. Across the street from his Manhattan hotel, he notices a man on a balcony and wonders aloud what the man is doing, what his life is. The moment makes him ponder, “What does that mean?” “Basically, I think life is relatively short,” Mortensen concludes. “We’re not here that long and I think we’re lucky to be here. “And it makes sense to pay attention.”

‘It makes sense to pay attention’

Mortensen Revels In History Of 'Promises' Starting in 2001, movie fans from around the globe came to know and love Viggo Mortensen as the noble, charismatic leader Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But for his last two major film projects, his characters have teetered in the middle before traveling to the opposite end of the heroic spectrum, proving that he’s not so concerned with his screen image as much as he is finding complex, challenging roles to get his hands dirty. Who says you can’t tarnish that One Ring to rule them all? The digging Mortensen’s been doing in the last two films has been under the auspices of acclaimed director David Cronenberg, the provocative filmmaker who’s examined the dark side of Mortensen’s characters in “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises,” which opens in wide release Friday.

Mortensen Revels In History Of ‘Promises’