LOTR Castmember Quotes
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Speaker |
Topic |
Quote |
| Barry | Camaraderie | I think for me it was the camaraderie of working so closely with the cast and becoming very close friends to all of them. It was a great experience. |
| Bernard Hill | Newcomer | Have you ever gone to private school? They put your head down the toilet. They did with me. Nah, blended in immediately. There was no sense that we were in any way late or newcomers. We just happened to arrive at a different time than other people. People arrived after us and had the same experience. |
| Dom | Brothers | Well we're just brothers you know. I have one real brother, but I have nine people who I would call my brothers. We spent about 15 hours a day seven days a week with each other. We fought and we laughed and we cried we went through every single level of emotion. You are doing things that we will never do with anyone ever again. We flew into storms in planes and having to land in airports at three in the morning and going up in helicopters, flying over whales and dolphins, and bungee jumping and surfing. It was life experiences. We all just became very close and relied on each other for support. It's strange because if you imagined that you were working with these people six days a week you would have thought that on your one day off you would say I'll see you tomorrow, go home and watch movies, but we wouldn't. We'd all go for breakfast together we would all go out. Even since finishing - it's been a year - I speak to one of the guys at least every other day. I know where they all are and where they are working so that in itself was a reason to do the movie. |
| Dom | Connected | We are so close and connected, especially the four Hobbits. We still meet up when we can. We all went through this weird experience together that I think will always tie us together. There are only eight other people in the world that know what I got up to in those 18 months. |
| Dom | Working | When we were out and about, there was a real camaraderie with the group. We spent 13-14 hours a day together, sometimes seven days a week without a break. There was even a stretch shooting 19 days straight but we still wanted to go out with the same people every night, even on holiday trips to Thailand and Sydney. |
| Elijah | Age | Yeah, it’s funny. I never really felt like the youngest—No, I think what was great about everyone and, I think, about the Fellowship as well, was I think we all felt like equals. I was the youngest one but I never really felt like I was the youngest one. I think we were all there under the same circumstances, you know. We were all away from our homes, we were all giving in to this long journey together, and I think that that was a very unifying force. So I never did feel sort of separated or slightly different from the rest, because we were all there under the same contract. |
| Elijah | Hanging Out | The fellowship became a reality. We made some of the best friends of our lives. We went through ups and downs together as a single unit. I learned how to surf -- we all learned how to surf. We took vacations together. It was so special and profound. |
| Elijah | Forever | We worked together, we fought together for the film and helped each other, in every sense of the word, we became a real fellowship and in many ways we still are today and I don't think (it) will ever stop. |
| Elijah | Family | It is a long time (on the 16 months working in NZ),and the great thing is we actually became a family, and the fellowship that is represented in the film, became a real fellowship, I mean I've made some of my best friends of my life on this picture. I'm so blessed to be a part of this project. |
| Liv | Boy's Club | When I arrived, the boys had all been there for a month so it was weird. Well, it wasn't weird, but they had already established this really intense bond and I was immediately invited into that and treated with extra nice boy treatment. But you know, just by the nature of who their characters are, all being part of the fellowship, it was important that they all had that bond together. |
| Liv | Humor | I think that a lot of that was the friendships that we made with each other and the fact that we all needed each other. It was vital that we all had each other to survive and to be able to laugh. Everybody had a really good sense of humor, thank God. We'd be constantly making jokes and decorating the trailer with ridiculous things and being rude and that was our sort of little bubble of escape in our makeup trailer. |
| Miranda O | Newcomer | Miranda on being a newcomer, "No, we were completely welcomed in right from the start. On the first day I shot I arrived back at the hotel and there was a message on the phone saying, "Hi," I can't remember who it was that rang, it might have been Orlando or Dom or Billy, said "We're all going to dinner tonight at such and such, come along." And I was sort of welcomed straight in. I was at dinner with them about an hour and I felt like I had known them forever. One of my fondest memories I was sitting down on set today and I was nervous about what I had to do, and Ian McKellan came and sat beside me and grabbed my hand. He was just holding my hand like this beside me [grabs Urban's hand], didn't say anything. Liv Tyler, when I first arrived on set I thought, "That's Liv Tyler, she's pretty famous." I'm the sort of person that doesn't move forward to people and be like, "Hey, I'm your new best friend!" I'm not like that, give them their space, they're famous, they must be sick of people who want to get close to them all the time. But she came straight over to me, which is sort of quite un-actress type behavior and she gave me a huge hug and said, "I'm so glad you're here! There's another woman here now! It's all been men! We can do things together! We can paint nails!" |
| Sean A Official Fanclub Magazine, 2001 |
Family | The most fun part of The Lord of the Rings experience is probably all the helicopter rides! On any given day, there were five helicopters ferrying us to the tops of these mountains. The most rewarding thing was gaining a whole new family, the family of actors and crew. Everybody was so close, and then we'd get sick of each other after four months of working together, and we'd go away for two weeks, and then we'd come back and it was this huge happy reunion, with hugs and a whole new battery of "let's-go-to-dinner-after-work." Then four more months would go by and we're sick of each other again - it's like a family! |
| Sean B | Hanging Out | We spent a whole year of our lives together. We learned to socialise and accept other people from different backgrounds, as we do in the Fellowship in the film. We all used to go out together, and then the hobbits would break off and play pool. If I wasn't hanging out with all the guys in the Fellowship, I'd hang out with Viggo Mortensen. You could say he was my best friend on the film. |
| Viggo | Comfort | It was tough. All of a sudden somebody was over in the corner crying. Somebody [else] would go over and put their arm around them or take them for a walk. There was interaction between cast and crew. It was a complete team. It was, in a sense, a fellowship of thousands of people who traveled from place to place. I didn't always feel safe, in the sense that you'd just be diving into a scene where you're thinking, 'I don't know how we're going to pull this off right now. Here come the clouds. We get one crack at it.' At the end of the day, though, I always felt that there was a certain safety in the family we were a part of, in isolation from the rest of the world. I thought it was good that we shot, not in Europe, not in North America, but in this place that was different. |
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