{"id":40339,"date":"2010-11-11T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=40339"},"modified":"2010-11-11T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T13:06:10","slug":"martin-freeman-is-ready-to-be-bilbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2010\/11\/11\/40339-martin-freeman-is-ready-to-be-bilbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Freeman Is “Ready to be Bilbo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TORn message board member AlexMaglor<\/strong> has pointed us to a great interview (albeit in Spanish) with Martin Freeman<\/strong> over at Spanish website elpais.com<\/a>. But thanks to the linguistic skills of message board member Empedocles<\/strong>, we’ve now got the entire interview translated in English.<\/p>\n

Here’s some snippets from the translated interview:<\/p>\n

“I know my work plan” says Freeman. “I start in January, then I\u2019ll have a break in the summer so I can shoot the second season of Sherlock, the BBC show where I portray Watson, and then I\u2019ll be back in New Zealand in September in order to finish the movie by the end of the year”. The Englishman says summer because he\u2019s thinking about the northern hemisphere seasons, but it will be winter in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

“I wasn\u2019t a fan of Tolkien before, I am now. A couple of weeks ago, I tried Bilbo\u2019s hairy feet for the first time, and also the ears, although mine are big enough already, and the hair too. Moreover, they made molds out of those parts of my body since I\u2019m going to be using prosthetics for many months. How did I look? Really different… but I\u2019m ready to be Bilbo.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Head over to our\u00a0message boards<\/a> for the translated interview and to read about Freeman’s conversations with Guillermo<\/strong> and PJ<\/strong> during the past couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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