{"id":42425,"date":"2011-02-25T08:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=42425"},"modified":"2011-02-25T09:07:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:07:41","slug":"mikael-persbrandt-speaks-about-getting-into-the-character-of-beorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/02\/25\/42425-mikael-persbrandt-speaks-about-getting-into-the-character-of-beorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikael Persbrandt Speaks About Getting Into The Character Of Beorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our geeky Swedish message board member “macfalk”\u00a0has pointed us to a couple of interviews with Mikael Persbrandt<\/strong> over at SVD.se<\/a> concerning his role of Beorn<\/strong> in the upcoming Hobbit<\/em> films.<\/p>\n

A rough translation as provided by “macfalk” on our dedicated\u00a0Hobbit Movie message board<\/a> follows:<\/p>\n

In Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Mikael Persbrandt plays Beorn, who has the ability of transforming himself into a bear. It was revealed that Tolkien was a childhood hero for Persbrandt.<\/p>\n

“I read all the [Tolkien] books. I went to second-hand bookshops searching for the first “Bilbo books”. I was a fantasy geek. Jackson’s Tolkien-movies are absolutely magnificent. He’s the man. The whole project will be so exciting. It is about 700 people in the crew, I am to stand in a corner and try to be pliable.”<\/p>\n

Persbrandt compares his role in The Hobbit to his first job as an extra for Ingemar Bergman, and the performance anxiety that occurs.<\/p>\n

“I think I share that sense with many of the people in my profession, we never allow ourselves to be truly happy – instead, we begin thinking about the impacts. How am I as a bear? One start thinking about stuff like that instead of thinking that this could be damn fun.”<\/p>\n

“I will play in both movies and will be there [New Zealand] five times this year and at least one more time next year. I am contracted for 25-28 days of shooting but it would not surprise me if it turned out to be more. I have only read 5 pages of the script, it was top secret, they sent somebody to a hotel in Los Angeles and I got to sign them: “Now they are yours. Bye”, he said. I am currently waiting for my call, but it can not be delayed too much since the filming for “Hamilton” begins soon [March 21, in Sweden].”<\/p>\n

Asked what he would have said if he knew back when he was a 12-year-old that he would one day play Beorn, Mikael says,\u00a0“Incredibly strange. I was never going to be an actor, I liked contructing buildings in balsa wood and wanted to become an astronaut, and it turned out like this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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