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That
must have been one very tiring shooting.
Sean
Astin : I was always exhausted in New Zealand. But Peter
Jackson kept reminding us that pain and tiredness were only
temporary, the movie is forever. For sure the shooting was
extremely tiring, but I got to go to some of the most beautiful
places I have ever seen in my all life. And to smell that pipe
smoke, so unique and special. My all experience with New Zealand
was through that tobacco.
How
was it like to wear those feet ?
SA
: What do you want to know about the feet ? They were big and
hairy. I even thought about sending a pair to David Beckham.
But,
wasn't it hard to act with them on ?
SA
: After
they were on, they were kind of comfortable. If the ground was
rocky, you could feel it a bit. But the makeup effects team
found a really revolutionary solution for that. It's
hard to explain. They would put glue all over our foot and then
the Hobbit foot. We had to be standing up the all time, because
if we sat, when we got up again the feet would be filled with
bubbles. There was always a team ready for whatever happened,
because when we had to run or ride a horse, several things would
always happen with the feet, like a toe being left behind, or
stuff like that.
Sam
goes through an enormous journey in this movie. Ever got
yourself lost, in terms of your character ?
SA
: In my career as an
actor I've always tried to know my characters inside out. It has
to be like that, if you want to make the audience believe in
you, that you are that character. But in this movie, it was
really complicated. I needed but to look at the clothes I had to
wear, to see how dirty they sometimes were, to really understand
all that the character was going through. Sometimes, when we’d
arrive on location, they would give us hundreds of pages with
working schedules, updates and revisions. I wasn't able to keep
up with all that logistic and still remain sane enough to do my
job. I decided to just allow myself to be carried away by what
was surrounding me. Whether it was a huge built set or a far
away mountain to where we'd been flown in by helicopter. It was
a very organic experience, as an actor. They were constantly
working on the script. Always innovating and changing things,
keeping in mind what they had and what people could do. They
wanted to get the adaptation always better and better, so the
best was just to follow the train, instead of trying to get
ahead of it.
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