From Nautilus magazine, March/May 2003 : "I don't know if there is any actor who finds themselves great on the screen. But when I saw myself there for the first time, with those ears and that wig, I thought, "O God, I look like a transvestite after a night of binge drinking." [...] "Helm's Deep was also quite hard for me : The last time I was in a fight was when I was a little boy, and then it is a challenge to have to fight against 16 Uruk-Hai and win. But it was fun, I love sword fights. Our choreographer for the sword fights of the elves had worked with Erroll Flynn, he is a real artist: everything is elegant, with smooth movements. That was great. And then there was walking (giggles). You weren't allowed to look at the ground, had to float around extremely gracefully - and fell over constantly on the uneven ground. And that as an elf, who constantly has to be clean and radiant! How often we had to keep changing costumes and starting the scenes over because somebody tripped over their robe again - I stopped counting at some point. The elves also had a hard time on set. There were signs in the casting office saying "We hate elves" or "No Elves here" or "Elf-free area" (grins). They had to cast a heap of 20-year-old beaus, I guess they didn't enjoy that as much."