LOTR Castmember Quotes
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Speaker |
Topic |
Quote |
| Elijah | Impaled Foot, Swollen Face, Tooth | Obviously, they were injuries here and there. We were constantly getting cuts. But Sean Astin had multiple stitches in his foot after a branch got stuck in it. Viggo went surfing with us once and the surf board hit him in the face, so the next day he went to Peter with this big black eye. He also got his tooth knocked out as well. |
| Harry | Swords | "It was quite therapeutic, actually," recalls Sinclair. "I really hurt a couple of stunt guys badly." He pauses, then breaks out into mildly raucous, but extremely jovial laughter. "We were rehearsing this scene and they wanted it to be 5 seconds long and I had to kill 5 orcs or something,. Oh my God, so we tried to speed it up and I just got this guy in the thigh with the tip of my sword and he fell over in pain. He said 'It's fine, it's fine, man, it's fine.' So we did it again and I got him again..." Sinclair's story trails off into almost uncontrollable laughter before he regains his composure, "He was fine, he's a stuntman. But it was horrible. I was doing my best, but they kept trying to make us do the scene faster, faster, faster. But it was fantastic." |
| Karl | Fighting | "Well, I got one in the 'nads," pipes up Urban. Sinclair, Cormack, and I stop laughing for a moment, letting the severity of having a sword thrust into your man-sack really sink in. Urban, seeing our concern quickly adds "No, no, I didn't get it there, I gave it there." We all bust out laughing again, neglecting to pity the poor fool who was on the receiving end of Urban's blade. |
| John | Allergic Reaction | That piece of yak tail had a life of its own each day. After six months of it, I developed what is gleefully described as topical eczema. I sort of looked like a panda. It was red, raw and also swelled up. |
| John | Allergic Reaction | For eight hours a day I'd have someone in my face applying the make-up, and during that time you can't read, you can't sleep, you can't even shut your eyes - and after six months of that, I developed a reaction to the prosthetics, I had to see a skin consultant, as the skin was burning off under my eyes. Eventually, there was simply no skin around my eyes for them to put make-up on. |
| Orlando | Accidents | I'm rather accident-prone, I have to admit. I've broken my back, my ribs, my nose, both my legs, my arm, my wrist, a finger and a toe and cracked my scull three times. |
| Orlando | Swollen Face | During the New Zealand-based production, a group of wax-head hobbits, led by Elijah Wood, became surf fanatics who spent their downtime shooting the curl off the rugged coastline. Mortensen, who plays the sword-wielding Aragorn, joined them one weekend—but instead of clocking time in the green room he wound up banging his head after his board flipped up and hit him in the face. The following Monday, Mortensen showed up to shoot the Mines of Moria scenes with the right side of his face badly swollen and his right eye shut like a punch-drunk boxer's. When make-up artists couldn't cover the bruising, Jackson was forced to shoot Mortensen only from his left side. |
| Orlando | Cracked Rib, Cracked Tooth | We were doing this scene with 30 horses lined up. We had to shoot, like, five takes. We had to ride up over this mound and down into a gully; and then there were rocks and a sheer drop. Well, horses are pack animals, man. And when that many horses get going, they're really going. On the last take, the director said, 'Now imagine the Orcs [ogre-like monsters] coming up from behind.' So I had my bow up, but the horses just weren't going to stop. Gimli fell, he landed on top of me, and I landed on a rock. I cracked a rib and Vig cracked his tooth. |
| Orlando | Cracked Rib | Orlando was shooting a tricky scene where he had another actor on the back of his horse with him and they were riding down a gully. "He was holding on to me for dear life and I could feel the weight of him on my back," recalls Orlando. "I kept saying, 'Lean back, lean back,' because he was pushing me right forward and the horse as well. On the fifth time, the horse was over-excited and I was tired and couldn't pull up. We just bailed off the side and landed on a rock. He landed on top of me and I broke my rib. |
| Peter | Swollen Face | Peter Jackson told the story of how Bloom and some of the hobbit actors had lured non-surfer Viggo Mortensen into action. Mortensen had shown up for work ready for shooting in the mines of Moria with "a huge swollen face, his right eye closed like a boxer", after a knock from his surf board. "For the scene we had to always shoot from the left-hand side," Jackson said. "We had no choice." |
| Sean A | Concussion | I had so many embarrassing moments while filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of the worst is from the third movie. I was sitting in Rivendell, an elf paradise, and an 80-pound wooden prop fell and landed on my head. The crew raced over and picked the thing off my head and I came to. A lump started growing, and the wig that was glued to my head lifted up and started pulling off. I got a CAT scan and luckily, I had no brain damage. The neurologist said I had a very large brain, though. I'm proud about that. |
| Viggo | Injuries | We had long battle sequences, I got a tooth knocked out, broken toes, and lots of cuts and sprains and pulled muscles. Everybody had something. When my tooth got knocked out, it was lunch time, so I went to the dentist, came back and we continued the scene after lunch. The action was pretty intense. |
| Viggo | Tooth, Broken Toes | We had long battle sequences, I got a tooth knocked out, broken toes, and lots of cuts and sprains and pulled muscles. Everybody had something. When my tooth got knocked out, it was lunch time, so I went to the dentist, came back and we continued the scene after lunch. The action was pretty intense. |
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