LOTR Castmember Quotes
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| Richard Taylor | Helm's Deep | At Helm's Deep we had forced rain and that was incredibly difficult. Getting hundreds of people into wet prosthetics every day. We shot twelve weeks at night, which is a long time to be shooting at that capacity. You're dealing with hundreds of extras, trying to keep them warm - and alive! The sleep deprivation, the physical exhaustion those guys endured was immense. There's an interesting thing: a huge part of the Uruk-Hai army was Samoan people. Samoan and Maori, the native nationality of New Zealand. They're extremely musical and we would have these guys in full prosthetics, full armor, on ukuleles, strumming out whole dance routines they had figured out to keep themselves warm in midwinter New Zealand. |
| Viggo | Helm's Deep | We did one battle for the second movie that we shot over 3 months straight, at night. It was really a long haul and a lot of friendships were formed during that. The stunt team, I look at them all like my brothers and sisters. They were really incredible. Really remarkable what they put themselves through. I couldn't imagine a European or an American stunt team having the kind of spirit that those guys did. I've never seen anything like what they did. And that does form an important part of all 3 movies, especially the second and third one. We had to really be in synch and really trust each other. |
| Viggo | Filming, Helm's Deep | I mean, occasionally we had some days off. But toward the end of filming, it was six days a week and rarely less than 14 hours a day—for me, anyway. There was one gigantic battle sequence that some of us worked on all night every night for three months straight, which is insane. It was dark and wet. That was a real tough one for the cast and crew and it forged strong friendships. People made an effort to enjoy themselves and spend time with each other because we became part of each other’s lives one way or another. On a shoot that long, people get together, people come apart, marriages falter, people get ill, people get pregnant, people get injured. It’s just like a giant traveling circus. |
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