My agent called me and said, "Look, they're casting 'Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson is gonna direct it, and you should go in and put yourself on tape." the idea of putting myself on tape in a casting office wasn't particularly attractive to me, mainly because I wanted to try to convey my passion for the project and for the role, and going into the casting office against a white background and being put on tape did not seem at all conducive to what I wanted to portray. I first heard about it from him, I actually wasn't approached to audition for it until nearly a year later. You gotta play Frodo!" And the news was really exciting, but they weren't casting for it at that point. "And one day he came up to me, and he was like, "Dude, they're making 'Lord of the Rings' as a feature. That’s when I looked at him and told him he would be perfect to play Frodo.” (Harry Knowles ~ Ain’t It Cool News) Elijah had never read that book, but he had read the Hobbit, and loved that. That Peter was going to try and make THE LORD OF THE RINGS. It was mid-afternoon and I told him that I had spoken on the phone with Peter Jackson that day. Elijah joined me on the steps and asked how things were going. There was a break in shooting, because as Robert was running with the steadi-cam, he slipped and fell and they were checking all the equipment out. “I remember, I was sitting on the steps of THE FACULTY’s set where Elijah is going to be running from Robert Patrick. The first hint of Elijah’s journey to come was in 1998 when he was filming ‘The Faculty’ in Texas – Harry Knowles, of ‘Ain’t It Cool News’ fame, who had a small role in ‘The Faculty’, told him that Peter Jackson might be making a film of ‘Lord of the Rings’: I'm going to take a trip back in time here on my LJ, back to the beginning of this amazing story - I hope some of you will enjoy the journey with me:) It will endure in my mind and my heart for the rest of my life." I think that means I wouldn’t have appreciated it enough. I would hate to surpass it, to try to do something better than that. Do you have any sense of “How will I surpass this?” "The majority of this group would call this the greatest trilogy ever made. One of my favourite Elijah quotes on this subject was this one from a small press conference in Dec 2003: I love the fact that he treasures that experience so much, that he never tires of being asked about Frodo because "Frodo has given me so much". I'm so fascinated by Elijah's experience in becoming Frodo - this 18 year old landing the role that would transform his life and travelling half-way round the world to shoulder this enormous responsibility. I think I'm addicted to him - can't go a day without my Frodo fix!! If this means that I'm stuck in some sort of LOTR time warp, then so be it. And I will be in love with Elijah's Frodo Baggins forever. The fact is, I will never get over The Lord of the Rings. When he has a new film due for release, I'm ridiculously excited. I love to watch all the movies he's made, both as a child & an adult, and to speculate about future roles.
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