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12 EDITORIAL 29 HOBBIT HEREAFTER mastermind Peter Jackson admits The Return of the King’s heroic he’s still surprised he was hired for 14 SNAPS hobbits Sean Astin and Elijah Wood the job | By Bruce Kirkland are saying goodbye to the Shire, 18 THE BIG PICTURE and wait till you hear what they’re 42 CLASSIC LORD OF THE RINGS Trek to Cold Mountain doing next | By Ingrid Randoja We’ve pulled together the best of our previous LotR coverage, including 30 SPOTLIGHT 34 GIRLFIGHT chats with lovely Elfin babe Liv Catching up with Return of the Australian actor Miranda Otto Tyler, and young bucks Elijah Wood King’s Cate Blanchett reveals how her character Eowyn and Ian McKellen (young in spirit, evolved from lovesick maiden to that is). And we’ve thrown in our 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 52 ON THE SLATE battle-ready warrior in The Return popular LotR index that’s full of

Lord of the Rings cast members of the King | By Ingrid Randoja cool facts and figures 5 98 get going on other projects 36 BLOOMING ALL OVER 54 NAME OF THE GAME Playing Legolas, Lord of the Rings’ COVER STORY kinetic, white-haired elf, has turned 56 BIT STREAMING Orlando Bloom into a much-in- 24 LEADER OF THE PACK Ian McKellen, Adam Sandler and demand matinee idol. Here he tells The ladies love him, his cast mates Halle Berry do it themselves us what we can expect from admire him and politicians, well, “Leggy” this time around don’t ask. Viggo Mortensen, who 58 VIDEO AND DVD | By Ingrid Randoja plays regal Aragorn in The Return of the King, is also an artist and 60 HOROSCOPE 38 PETER THE GREAT outspoken political commentator. He pulled off one of the most Find out what he has to say about 62 FAMOUS LAST WORDS mammoth directing jobs ever Return, and American politics What the stars want for Xmas attempted, but Lord of the Rings’ | By Ingrid Randoja

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CONTRIBUTORS EARL DITTMAN SCOTT GARDNER LORD SUSAN GRANGER n the waning days of the 1990s the web was crackling with BRUCE KIRKLAND cinephiles excited over a new trilogy of fantasy films. Fan sites DAN LIEBMAN speculated about how the characters would look, chatrooms MARK MAGEE hosted debates over whether the director could pull it off, and I ADVERTISING SALES FOR FAMOUS, FAMOUS QUEBEC AND FAMOUS KIDS contraband photos, often covertly collected from the film’s overseas set, were posted with glee. IS HANDLED BY FAMOUS PLAYERS MEDIA INC. Unfortunately that film, Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace, sucked. ADVERTISING AND SALES But soon after slinking back from the hall closets where they’d 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 quietly stowed their besmirched light sabers, those same fans — and HEAD OFFICE 416.539.8800 a bunch of new ones — realized there was another three-picture SALES MANAGER JOHN TSIRLIS (ext. 237) ACCOUNT MANAGERS JAMIE CRUVER (ext. 224) fantasy project in the works. And fans of this trilogy got to play with ZOLTAN TOTH (ext. 233) real swords. ANTON KIM (ext. 238) Two years after the Star Wars letdown, the world was delightfully JENNA PATERSON (ext. 243) surprised when The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was TAP CHAUHAN (ext. 235) released. Although fan sites for this film had been just as active as SALES & MARKETING CAROL BRATHWAITE (ext. 256) those for Phantom Menace, there had been more doubt surrounding COORDINATOR the Rings trilogy. For one thing, devotees of the J.R.R. Tolkien books were nervous about how well they’d make the jump from the printed BRITISH COLUMBIA 604.904.8622 page to celluloid. For another, director Peter Jackson was untested WESTERN SALES MANAGER DIANE RAJH when it came to large-scale, big-budget pics. To date, he’d only done 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 a handful of smaller films like The Frighteners and Heavenly Creatures. ALBERTA 403.266.4412 They need not have worried. Fellowship earned 13 Oscar nomina- WESTERN SALES MANAGER ELIZABETH D’ARTOIS tions and won four. Its follow-up, The Two Towers, pulled in just six nominations, winning two, but many thought the second film even QUEBEC 514.868.0005 better than the first, especially with the introduction of the GENERAL MANAGER DANIELLE BERNARD (ext. 223) marvelously complex CGI-generated character, Gollum. ACCOUNT MANAGER MICHAEL KALLAUR (ext. 222) This month, all across the world, fans are snapping up tickets to Lord of the Rings marathons, with the two previous films — in their SPECIAL THANKS JOHN BAILEY extended versions — being shown on Dec. 16, just hours before the MATHIEU CHANTELOIS final installment, The Return of the King, blows onto screens at 12 a.m. ROBB CHASE on Dec. 17. In the States, many of the shows are already sold out, and JOAN GRANT tickets are being scalped on eBay for as much as $700 (U.S.) a pair. CATHY PROWSE SUSAN REGINELLI Here in Canada, not only are select Famous Players theatres hosting 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the marathon, dubbed “Trilogy Tuesday,” on December 16th, but JEFF RUSH will also screen the extended edition of The Fellowship of the Ring Famous™ magazine is published 12 times a year by 1371327 Ontario Ltd. from December 5th to 11th and the extended edition of The Two Subscriptions are $32.10 ($30 + GST) a year in Canada, $45 a year in the U.S. Towers from December 12th to 15th. Visit www.famousplayers.com and $55 a year overseas. Single copies are $3. Back issues are $6. All subscription inquiries, back issue requests and to see if there are any tickets left. letters to the editor should be directed to As cinema’s biggest story of the millennium, we thought Lord of the Famous magazine at 102 Atlantic Ave., Ste. 100, Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1X9; or 416.539.8800; or [email protected] Rings deserved a tribute issue. And so we proudly present you with fresh, new interviews with Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Canada Post Publication Agreement: No. 40708019

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DECEMBER 5 LOVE DON’T COST A THING conjoined twins that have flooded the media over the past year. In the Farrelly WHO’S IN IT? Nick Cannon, Christina Milian Brothers’ take on the whole egg-not- HONEY WHO DIRECTED? Troy Beyer (Let’s Talk completely-splitting thing, Bob and Walt WHO’S IN IT? Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer About Sex) (Kinnear and Damon), who are literally WHO DIRECTED? Bille Woodruff (debut) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Usually, at least a few joined at the hip, head for Hollywood so WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Honey (Alba) is a young decades pass before a movie is remade. Walt can break into acting. music video choreographer who thinks But it’s only been a decade and a half her talent alone is responsible for how far since Patrick Dempsey starred in 1987’s DECEMBER 17 she’s come — until her boss orders her to Can’t Buy Me Love, on which this one’s 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 sleep with him or she’s out. So Honey based. This time, Cannon plays the high ditches the job and starts her own dance school loser who pays a sexy cheerleader LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN studio for inner-city youths. (Milian) to pretend to be his girlfriend. OF THE KING WHO’S IN IT? Viggo Mortensen, Elijah Wood DECEMBER 12 SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE WHO DIRECTED? Peter Jackson (The Two WHO’S IN IT? Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton Towers) BIG FISH WHO DIRECTED? Nancy Meyers (What WHAT’S IT ABOUT? In the final piece of the WHO’S IN IT? Ewan McGregor, Billy Crudup Women Want) trilogy we find out whether Aragorn has WHO DIRECTED? Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow) WHAT’S IT ABOUT? Jack plays a cocky what it takes to lead Middle-earth into a WHAT’S IT ABOUT? As William Bloom senior who only dates women young enough brighter future. Plus, of course, we see (Crudup) sits by the deathbed of his father to be his daughter. But when he meets the whether Frodo makes it to Mount Doom,

(Albert Finney), he recalls all the unbe- mother (Keaton) of his current squeeze, he the only place where the malevolent ring 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 lievable stories he’d been told about his discovers he’s oddly attracted to her. Keanu can be destroyed. Turn to page 23 for our pa over the years. McGregor plays the Reeves co-stars as Nicholson’s doctor who, massive tribute to the Lord of the Rings young version of Finney in flashbacks. even though he’s a gorgeous, intelligent films, featuring interviews with Viggo young man, also finds Keaton’s character Mortensen, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, BLIZZARD attractive. Imagine that. Orlando Bloom, Miranda Otto, Peter WHO’S IN IT? Christopher Plummer, Jackson, Liv Tyler and Ian McKellen. Brenda Blethyn STUCK ON YOU WHO DIRECTED? LeVar Burton (debut) WHO’S IN IT? Greg Kinnear, Matt Damon DECEMBER 19 WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When a 10-year-old WHO DIRECTED? Bobby and Peter Farrelly girl’s best friend moves away, her eccentric (Shallow Hal) CALENDAR GIRLS aunt (Blethyn) tries to cheer her up by WHAT’S IT ABOUT? It’ll be interesting to WHO’S IN IT? Helen Mirren, Julie Walters telling her a story about a reindeer who see if the public has an appetite for this WHO DIRECTED? Nigel Cole (Saving Grace) flies from the North Pole to help another comedy about conjoined twins after all WHAT’S IT ABOUT? When Annie (Walters) 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 sad little girl. the heart-wrenching, true-life stories of loses her husband to leukemia her best � �

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friend Chris (Mirren) comes up with a � � PETER PAN unique way for their women’s club to raise WHO’S IN IT? Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter funds for research. Instead of featuring WHO DIRECTED? P.J. Hogan (My Best fields of flowers or grazing cows in their Friend’s Wedding) annual calendar, the mostly middle-aged WHAT’S IT ABOUT? The little boy who members will each appear in the buff. doesn’t want to grow up is actually played Based on a true story — the real calendar by a little boy (Sumpter) — rather than a became a worldwide phenomenon and woman, as is usually the case with the- made a ton of money. atrical stagings of the J.M. Barrie classic — in this lush, live-action version.

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ike Jim Morrison says, _“This is the end, my friend.” Two years ago we watched four hobbits, two men, an elf, dwarf and wizard set out to destroy a small piece of jewellery in The Fellowship of the Ring. In last year’s The Two Towers we met the bi-polar thing named Gollum, who led our hobbit heroes into Mordor, and we witnessed an epic battle at a place called Helm’s Deep. What to expect in the grand finale, The Return of the King? Anyone who’s read the book knows the answer, but non-readers should look for Gollum to set a trap for Sam and Frodo inside the mountains of Mordor. And, as is hinted at in the film’s title, Return of the King, Aragorn will take centre stage uniting Middle-earth’s humans against Sauron’s hordes outside the walls of Minas Tirith. To help get your Lord of the Rings juices flowing, we’ve assembled a special Return of the King package, which includes exclusive new interviews with the film’s cast and extraordinary director, plus reprints of some of the best LotR articles we’ve run over the past three years.

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are essentially like the ring for Sauron, tools” with which to R control people’s thinking and behaviour from a distance. “If America has any respect left in the world,” he continues, “it’s for the principles of the nation, which are based in the notion of government by the people for the people. In the constitution it says you have the right to overthrow the government if it prohibits that, so I would then say you have the right to say something. In fact it’s a duty to speak up.” Mortensen’s liberal political views would seem to stem from the fact that he’s lived an unorthodox life. This 45-year- old son of a Danish father and American mother was born in New York City, but moved to South America with his family when he was a toddler. His father’s business failed, his par- ents divorced, and when he was 11 he headed to upstate 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 New York with his mother and two brothers. After university, Mortensen moved to Denmark, where he waited on tables, sold flowers and led a laidback existence. But by 1982 he decided to return to New York and become an actor. He studied, got a few small roles, and in 1987 married punk rock diva Exene Cervenka, the lead singer of the band X. They PHOTO BY SPLASH NEWS had a son, Henry, and moved to the wilds of Idaho. Getting to become the best leader we can of our own self in life.” acting jobs based out of Idaho proved difficult, but Mortensen Mortensen is holding court (you’d expect nothing less) dur- found work in films such as The Indian Runner, Boiling Point ing the press junket for The Return of the King. Seated at a table and Crimson Tide. However, when his marriage ended, surrounded by journalists, the actor is clad in a groovy forest Mortensen relented and moved to L.A to jumpstart his career.

green shirt and sipping loose leaf tea from a wood and pewter It worked, and one fateful day he got a call out of the blue 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 cup, using a silver straw. Add in the hacked Prince Valiant do, asking him to decide, within 48 hours, whether or not to spend and Mortensen looks like he stepped out of a Renaissance fair. a year (it turned out to be more like two) in New Zealand to Yet, despite his serene composure, you sense an invisible make LotR. His son Henry helped convince him to go. thread of unrest hanging off him, just waiting to be pulled. Mortensen will forever be linked with Aragorn, and you That unrest may be why he paints, writes and takes pictures, wonder if he’s had difficulty shaking the role, considering he and a similar unrest drives his movie counterpart, Aragorn. completely immersed himself in the part. “Yeah, I had a “What people like Boromir and others initially saw as chance to work on him longer than any other, but I’ve never, defects and weakness in Aragorn,” says Mortensen, “prove to with any part, wanted to shake anything,” says Mortensen. “I be his greatest strength. In other words his hesitation, his hear other people say, ‘Oh geez, it was hard to shake the skin self-doubt, those really are his strengths because they have to of that character. I was playing a psycho killer, or a milkmaid, do with compassion, they have to do with him considering and man it took me the longest time to stop drinking milk.’ whether he has a right to act. I wish the leaders of the most “Look, it’s my point of view that life is short and we are powerful countries these days would have a little bit of that. either going to die or be senile and not remember anything 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Unfortunately, they seem to have none of that.” soon enough. Why would I want to forget something that was Mortensen, as you can tell, likes to talk politics. He’s an a significant part of my life?” outspoken critic of President Bush and American foreign However, he’ll now have to deal with the fact that he’s an policies, and it takes mere moments for him to weave his international star and desired acting commodity. How will a views of real-world issues with those of LotR’s fictional world. man so private and consumed by his various artistic pursuits “The thing to remember about Sauron, or the U.S. manage the demands of success? government or the British government, it doesn’t matter, “Each of the film’s actors have to face how they deal with whoever, is that they want you to feel that you are not in con- it. Do they remain group-oriented or do they start to care trol and never will be,” says Mortensen. “You should just about their own interests? Some have done better than obey, do your thing and it will be easier for everyone if you others dealing with it. You can’t ever be sure you’ve got it all just be quiet. It’s easy to feel hopeless against that. We have figured out and it might take a friend saying, ‘Hey, you’ve

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National Institute of Dramatic Art, where she established herself as a rising star. After graduation she moved between stage and TV work, winning a slew of theatre awards. Blanchett made her film debut as a nurse in the 1997 women’s

Cate 3/C POW drama Paradise Road. It was her gutsy performance in that

film that convinced producers to cast her, opposite established B star Ralph Fiennes, in Oscar and Lucinda. When Indian director BLANCHETT Shekhar Kapur, who was searching for an actor to portray Queen G Elizabeth in his film Elizabeth, spied Blanchett decked out in a R frizzy red wig and period piece clothing in a trailer for Oscar and Lucinda, he knew he had found his queen. Elizabeth sent Blanchett’s career skyrocketing. She won a Golden Globe for her astonishing turn, and many thought she was robbed when Gwyneth Paltrow picked up 1998’s Best Actress Oscar instead of her. Aussies watching the telecast across the nation booed Paltrow’s win, which led Paltrow to whine, “I don’t think I deserved that.” Since then Blanchett has played a dizzying assortment of characters, from the big-boobed New Jersey wife in Pushing Tin, to the psychically gifted southerner in The Gift, to the ethereal elfin queen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 SAMPLE ROLES: Galadriel in the LotR trilogy, Maggie in The Missing (2003),Veronica in Veronica Guerin (2003), Philippa in Heaven (2002), Charlotte in Charlotte Gray (2001), Kate in Bandits (2001), Petal in The Shipping News (2001), Annie in The Gift (2000), Connie in Pushing Tin (1999), Meredith in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Elizabeth in Elizabeth (1998), Lucinda in Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

LOVE LIFE: Married screenwriter Andrew Upton in 1997. The couple has a two-year-old son, Dashiell John, named after the American crime writer, and they are expecting a second baby this spring. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

PHOTO BENSCH/REUTERS BY FABRIZIO TRIVIA: Has a weakness for Diet Coke. • Served as a guest editor NOW APPEARING IN…the third and final instalment of the for fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar. • Named 1999’s Australian Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, as Galadriel, the of the Year. • Kept, and bronzed, the pointed elf ears worn in the luminescent, wise old elf queen. Lord of the Rings movies.

BIO BITS: She’s been called her generation’s Meryl Streep, and ON THE FILM BUSINESS: “I feel at times that the way people talk together with Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett has transformed the to me about work, I should be carrying a briefcase and have a image of Australian women from rugged and tomboyish to regal laptop. It actually kills the intangible, inexplicable reasons why and chic. you do something.” [Time, January 1998] —IR She was born Catherine Elise Blanchett on May 14, 1969, in Melbourne, Australia to a Texan father and an Australian mother. Cate Blanchett The second of three children (she has a brother, Bob, and a sister, as Galadriel Genevieve), Blanchett’s childhood was marred by the death of her 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 father from a heart attack when she was 10. As a youngster she attended Methodist Ladies College where she both acted in, and directed, school plays. However, she put her childish acting ways aside when she enrolled in Melbourne University to study economics and fine arts. But she was soon bored and left school after a single year to travel. She eventually found herself broke and in Egypt, which led her to take a job as an extra in a boxing movie (she was a face in a cheering crowd). She hated the job. Yet, when she returned to Australia she decided she must follow her heart and take up acting. She was accepted to the 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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ustralian actor Miranda Otto about where I was — ‘If I’m in Edoras, does. What are they trying to do to plays Eowyn, The Lord of the Rings’ why did I watch everyone leave Edoras? Arwen?’ And I think she felt responsible 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 A lone female warrior. Eowyn’s And now I am at Dunharrow, but I saw and worried that all the fighting wouldn’t heroic nature is alluded to in The Two everyone leave to go to Dunharrow...I be in line with who Arwen really is. She Towers, yet instead of fighting she is don’t understand.’ [Laughs.]” really pushed for the return to the love asked to herd women and children into story that’s in the book.” Helm’s Deep. But in The Return of the DID YOUR PART BECOME BETTER? King, Eowyn gets to ride into battle. “Oh definitely, no disappointments, it WHAT WAS IT LIKE FILMING THE BATTLES? Here, Otto tells us what it feels like to be was much better for me. Originally, “Pete [director Peter Jackson] really the toughest chick in Middle-earth. there was more stuff between Liv and I, likes all the actors to do all the fights jealous stuff about Aragorn. I was like, themselves, as much as possible, but I EOWYN IS ONE OF THE MORE COMPLEX ‘No!’ But when I got there they said, can’t do all the horse work myself CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK. DOES THAT ‘Don’t look at that stuff, we’re not doing because some of it is just too dangerous.

COME ACROSS IN THE FILM? that stuff,’ and I said, ‘That’s good When you hit the battlefield things amp 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “When you first read the book you because there are so few women in this up 100 percent and Pete really pushes think Eowyn’s story may be a romance so don’t make us fight over the boy.’” you. He wants it to seem real and story, that’s what I thought at first — desperate, and the Battle of Pelennor ‘Ah, she meets Aragorn, right, I get it, YOUR ACTION STUFF TURNED OUT TO BE Fields is the battle where everyone is there’s going to be to-ing and froi-ng MUCH MORE COMPELLING THAN LIV’S. basically riding to their deaths. It’s a and eventually they’ll get together.’ “At one stage Liv did have some more more emotional battle than Helm’s And then you realize that it’s not really action, but she felt it wasn’t true to the Deep. Helm’s Deep is a victory and it’s a romance story, but rather a journey of book and her character in the book. exciting, but there is a lot of grief in the discovery for her, finding out who she I’m speaking for her here, and I hope Pelennor Fields. I felt completely over- really is. Here’s a woman character who I’m speaking correctly, but I think she whelmed when we were doing it.” is not just driven by romance, but is was worried, reading on internet sites driven by her ideals, her willpower and people saying, ‘That’s not what Arwen HOW DID IT FEEL TO BE ALONE AMONGST her courage. After all, you don’t just THOUSANDS OF PUMPED-UP MEN? 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 want to be mooning around looking at Otto as “Actually, we needed as many horse peo- Aragorn all the time thinking, ‘Please, Eowyn ple as we could get, so they called for love me, love me, love me.’” people across the country to come to the Pelennor Fields and a fair amount of IS IT TRUE YOUR PART KEPT CHANGING? them were women. They put beards on “When I originally accepted the role the them and the guys seemed to get script was quite different to what ended strangely excited by these women with up happening. I got my script in bits as beards. The women weren’t very excited we went along. You’d be doing scenes about having them on, with all that not knowing what had happened before, sticky stuff, but, gee, it did something and there were even times when, geog- strange to the guys, especially Bernard

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down. In an ugly Hollywood squabble, New Line Cinema wrested the project away from Miramax and gave Jackson his three films and a budget of $90-million per film (which has since grown through re-shoots and CGI work). The critical Mission decision was made to shoot all three films simultaneously and only in New Zealand, which meant the trilogy cost a accomplished mere 50 percent of what it would have in the U.S. 3/C Now the 42-year-old Jackson’s dream is almost fully real- B ized. The final instalment, The Return of the King, is expected to generate huge box office worldwide starting this month. G

Return of the King is also an early favourite for a slew of R Academy Awards nominations, putting the trilogy back on the Oscar map after The Two Towers garnered only six nominations and two wins, down from 13 nominations and four trophies for The Fellowship of the Ring. “It’s my favourite of the three films,” Jackson offers. “I think we are saving the best Lord of the Rings film for last. It is the most emotional of the three. Frodo [Elijah Wood] and Sam [Sean Astin] are just extraordinary in the third film. They are just so brave.” One advantage of the final instalment, says Jackson, is that most of the major characters have already been established in the first two films. That meant Jackson could focus on the storytelling, particularly with Gollum (Andy Serkis) leading 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Frodo and Sam into Mordor while the One Ring that binds them all has even more of a disturbing, psychological effect on both Gollum and Frodo. But the director also had to worry about the logistics of the epic battle scene at the city of Minas Tirith (which was built in the same Kiwi quarry as Helm’s Deep of The Two Towers). Thanks to the staging, and to CGI, this fight is at least 10 HE WAS AN UNLIKELY CANDIDATE, BUT PETER JACKSON times bigger than the enormous battle we saw at Helm’s GOT THE GIG AND PULLED OFF ONE OF FILM HISTORY’S Deep, with all the massed armies of Middle-earth finally fighting it out — Good vs. Evil. MOST DARING ENDEAVOURS | BY BRUCE KIRKLAND The story’s climax and completion — as readers of the

three-part book already know — is complicated, huge in 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 eter Jackson walks into the room bare-footed. He is a scale and mixed in emotion. delightfully short, pot-bellied, shaggy-haired Kiwi. With “It is more optimistic, yes, yes,” says Jackson, when asked Phis mischievous grin, he looks like he could snuggle to compare the tone of Return to that of The Two Towers. into the cozy den of a Hobbit hole and make himself at “The third film obviously has a resolution and it has a home. So it only seems natural that this is the lovable triumphant, sort of Biblical-sized climactic action ending. eccentric whose 25-year passion and eight years of dedication But it also has incredible sadness. I mean, I cry in three or turned J.R.R. Tolkien’s fabled novel The Lord of the Rings into four different places in the third film. The sadness emerges a $280-million-plus trilogy of films. from intimate passages,” says Jackson. “I like the mixture of Yet, originally, Jackson seemed like an unlikely choice for the epic and the intimate, which I think is one of the the job, despite his love for the novel — “one of the greatest reasons why people like the book.” books ever written,” he claims. He says he first delved into Jackson also stays true to Tolkien by refusing to make the books as a teenager after seeing director Ralph Bakshi’s things nice or superficial. “Tolkien’s themes, I think, are failed 1978 animated version. based to some degree on human weakness. He didn’t have 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Before directing The Lord of the Rings, Jackson, who hails much faith in the human race. That’s why he regards the from Pukerua Bay on the North Island of New Zealand, had Elfin race as the ideal race and men are weak and flawed.” never had a hit Hollywood movie. His best-received film was Jackson, who confesses to his own weakness and flaws, the drama Heavenly Creatures, and his early work included appropriately calls his production company Wingnut Films. some wacko schlock, such as the horror comedy Bad Taste One sterling quality this wingnut does possess is that he has and the twisted adult animation Meet the Feebles. little ego about his extraordinary accomplishment. “I think one of the interesting things about the project is Filmmaking is a collaboration, not a one-man show, he that it breaks all the rules,” Jackson says. “Because, if you’re says. “That’s why I don’t put: ‘A Peter Jackson Film’ on the making The Lord of the Rings for this sort of budget, you front of the movie. I don’t believe in those possessor credits, don’t hire me!” especially for a film like this!” Miramax Films, for one, did not trust him with such a risk,

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rings | reprint | REPRINTED FROM THE NOVEMBER 2001 ISSUE OF FAMOUS 3/C B G R making 52[Éuu|à FUN FACTS ABOUT THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Height of the average hobbit: THREE-FOOT-SIX Number of people on the Lord of the Rings payroll: 1,700 Height of Elijah Wood, who plays hobbit Frodo Baggins: FIVE-FOOT-SIX Percentage of them who are New Zealanders: 98 Number of characters who comprise the “fellowship”: 9 Time it took John Ronald Reuel Tolkien to write the three books Number of those nine actors who were born in the U.S.: 3 (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King) Number of those nine actors who were born in the U.K.: 5 that comprise The Lord of the Rings: 11 YEARS Number of speaking parts: 77 Time it took Peter Jackson to film the three adaptations: 18 MONTHS Character who is completely computer generated: GOLLUM Number of days in those 18 months they were actually shooting: 274 Most prominent character from the book that did not make it into Books Elijah Wood read during those 18 months: AMERICAN PSYCHO, The Fellowship of the Ring: TOM BOMBADIL HIGH FIDELITY, I AM LEGEND

Number of previous times three modern-day films have been shot at Cast member who appears on the cover of Paul McCartney’s 1973 album 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 the same time: 0 Band on the Run: CHRISTOPHER LEE

Birthplace of J.R.R. Tolkien: BLOEMFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA Budget for the trilogy: $270-MILLION (U.S.) Birthplace of Peter Jackson: PUKERUA BAY, NEW ZEALAND Terabytes of computer storage used by special effects team: 10 Country where Lord of the Rings was filmed: NEW ZEALAND Cost of coffee consumed by cast and crew each month: $86,500 New Zealand’s leading exports: BEEF, MUTTON AND WOOL Cost of alcohol consumed after a single location shoot on New Zealand’s Number of copies of Lord of the Rings sold worldwide: 50 MILLION North Island: $6,400 Number of languages in which it is available: 25 Cost of building the set of the fortress Cirith Ungol: $86,500 Number of languages invented and used by Tolkien in his books: 37 Number of nails it took: 30,000 Number of languages in which you can read the movie’s official site: 9 And litres of paint: 2,040 How you say “Lord of the Rings” in Norwegian: RINGENES HERRE Material used to build “wooden” sets: POLYSTYRENE Length of time before filming started that the vegetable and flower Number of sites Google returns for “Fellowship of the Ring”: 31,500 gardens were planted on the Hobbiton set: 1 YEAR 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Time it takes Google to perform that search: 0.1 SECONDS Approximate number of hand-made suits of amour used: 1,200 Number of people who downloaded the first snippet of the movie that Approximate number of pairs of prosthetic feet and ears used: 1,600 was posted on the internet, in the first 24 hours: 1.7 MILLION Number of orc heads used: 200 Movie that Fellowship’s first theatrical trailer appeared before in Kind of hair used on those heads: YAK North America: THIRTEEN DAYS Approximate number of horses used: 250 Movies that Fellowship’s first theatrical trailer appeared before in Type of horse used to play Gandalf’s mystical white steed: ANDALUSIAN Australia: LITTLE NICKY AND BRING IT ON Number of props that were rented for the shoot: 0

Number of books by J.R.R. Tolkien: 34 Number of rings made by the Lord of the Rings prop jeweller: 40 Number of movies by Peter Jackson: 9 Number of rings made by the villain Sauron: 17 Number of diary entries actor Ian McKellen posted to his website during Number of those rings intended “to rule them all, to find them…to bring

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ake a quick look at Liv Tyler, movie star, appearing in Stealing Beauty, worried that her acting abilities weren’t and you’ll instantly under- Empire Records, Armageddon, Onegin and, up to the task. stand why director Peter most recently, as the “sex on legs” “Every movie that I do, I feel like it’s Jackson cast her as a radiant seductress in One Night at McCool’s. my first, I’m terrified,” she confides.

princess in his Lord of the Rings This month she makes her first “Even before I did Lord of the Rings, 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 movies. Even dressed in funky appearance as the elf princess Arwen for a whole month before, I was Tmodern-day garb — skin-tight leather in The Fellowship of the Ring, the initial worried I might be biting off more hip-huggers and a chic silk top — Tyler instalment of Jackson’s ambitious than I could chew.” looks regal. It’s difficult to imagine she adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of It took the encouragement of Jackson has ever been anything but attractive the Rings trilogy. (Heavenly Creatures) to convince Tyler and charming. But the 24-year-old star But Tyler admits she has yet to come she could tackle the demanding role. “I can easily remember being a “dorky to terms with her metamorphosis from was really homesick when I first started little girl” from Portland, Maine, with geek to chic. “It’s still weird to look up doing Fellowship of the Ring,” she says, braces, a pudgy face and no self-esteem. at the screen and think that people recalling the arduous 18-month, three- “I was gangly, I had this horrible consider me beautiful,” she says with a film shoot in New Zealand. “Finally perm and my teeth were covered in grimace. “I’m always embarrassed when [Peter] sat me down and asked me what steel,” she recalls as she sits in her I see myself trying to be sexy, because was wrong. After I told him I was home- Beverly Hills hotel suite. “And to top it I still see my dorky teenage self. sick, he said, ‘Is that all?’ That’s when I 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 all off, I had the worst case of attention Sometimes, I still see that young girl started crying and spilling my guts, deficit on the face of the Earth. I was who would look in the mirror and telling him I didn’t know if I had what it loud and obnoxious. I was no picnic. think, ‘Will I ever be attractive?’” took to play Arwen.” Boys would just look at me and The Lord of the Rings films cast her Jackson gave her a pep talk, assuring chuckle, thinking, ‘What a loser.’” alongside Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, her that she was a great actress, and right But a makeover, and a few words of Viggo Mortensen and Cate Blanchett, for the part. “I’ve had people tell me encouragement from family friend who play a gaggle of hobbits, elves things like that all the time, but it was and supermodel Paulina Porizkova, and other Middle-earthlings on an something about the way that Peter said steered a teenaged Liv into modeling epic quest to destroy a magical ring it that made it stick. He made me realize — a brief but successful career that and defeat the forces of darkness. A I didn’t have to be scared anymore, quicklyNeo takes led on to the Hollywood. Smiths A decade longtime fan of Tolkien, Tyler was elated maybe I was talented.”

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t’s been almost a year since 63-year- erations of moviegoers who had never the Grey to Gandalf the White. He’s old stage and screen veteran Sir Ian heard of me before. I mean, my face is gone up in the wizard hierarchy. He’s McKellen thought he’d discovered now on 40-cent postage stamps Down sent back because the job is not com- the secret to reversing the aging Under. All that has given me a new plete, he’s failed the Fellowship. But he process. It was right after the first of lease on life. I feel 30 years younger.” comes back looking younger, deter- IPeter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies, McKellen’s reinvigorated attitude mined, with a trimmed beard and he’s Fellowship of the Ring, had been released. couldn’t have occurred at a better wearing some really cool, white samurai “Every time we would make personal time. Although Gandalf makes an clothes. He even rides a white horse. appearances, there’d be so many peo- unexpected exit in the middle of He’s no longer a bumbling wizard, he’s ple screaming my name and asking for The Fellowship of the Ring, in The Two a commander. He’s even mistaken for autographs, I started to feel like a Towers his character makes a triumphant Saruman [Christopher Lee] because 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 young pop star,” says McKellen, who return. And, this time, his prowess has they can’t believe Gandalf has come earned an Oscar nomination for his increased tenfold. back to life, and looking, shall we say, role as Gandalf the Grey. “It was an “After the first film, a lot of people absolutely stunning.” incredible feeling. I’ve done a lot of would say to me, ‘Is that it? Are we not While it may make good copy, movies, but besides X-Men, this is my going to see Gandalf again?’ — they McKellen’s newfound feelings of first gigantic hit film. Some folks knew thought I was done for,” the British youthfulness and Gandalf’s rejuvena- me from things like Gods and Monsters actor recalls, settling into his New York tion are purely coincidental since all [for which he also snagged a Best Actor City hotel suite for our conversation. three Rings pictures — The Fellowship nomination], but that was only an art- “If you are one of the millions who of the Ring, The Two Towers and house hit. So Fellowship of the Ring has have read the book, then you know, The Return of the King — were filmed not only raised my profile in Hollywood, yes, Gandalf does appear again. together over an 18-month period in

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(“Actually, being in such a nice quiet “It was an experience I’ll never forget,” acter. It’s incredible to watch him. � � place for so long is probably what really McKellen recalls. “But Peter really tried Honestly, I can’t wait to see what hap- made me feel 20 years old again,” to film in sequence as much as he could. pens, even though I’m in the movie, and McKellen jokes.) That allowed the actors the chance to I know what’s next. I’m that excited.” Surprisingly, though, the long shoot, feel how their characters evolved.” For the openly gay McKellen, an coupled with being in a virtual wilder- Both McKellen and Wood promise advocate of same-sex civil rights, the

ness half-a-world away from Hollywood, The Two Towers will be even more artistic and financial achievements of 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 caused many of Tinsel Town’s hottest intense than its predecessor. “If you The Fellowship of the Ring, and the teen actors to pass on the role of Frodo, know anything about the story, Battle of anticipated success of the next two the young Hobbit who leads the Helm’s Deep is a big part of the second installments of the trilogy, represent a Fellowship on a quest to defeat evil. one, and it’s got a battle sequence that major shift in our society’s views towards Twenty-one-year-old Elijah Wood, will kick your ass,” boasts Wood. the acceptance of homosexuals. however, wasn’t about to let the role of McKellen explains, “While the first “I think it’s pretty ironic that a gay a lifetime pass him by just so he could one was essential in introducing all the man is the star of two of the biggest film stay home in the States to party with his characters, The Two Towers begins to franchises of this millennium — buddies. Best known for roles in The Ice define what their destinies are, and I X-Men and The Lord of the Rings — a pair Storm and Deep Impact, the American think a lot of people will be surprised by of so-called ‘family films,’” beams actor beat out several bigger-name stars the direction these characters take.” McKellen. “It is a bit ironic, but people by making an audition tape — in full Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Orlando have been terribly supportive. When Hobbit regalia — to send to Jackson. Bloom, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen and the first film opened, I got an email 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 “Believe it or not, I didn’t have any John Rhys-Davies all reprise their from my good friend Armistead Maupin reservations about going down there,” Fellowship of the Ring roles in The Two [gay author of Tales From the City], and Wood says from his own lavish suite. Towers — the continuing saga of Frodo he wrote, ‘Can you believe an openly “This was something I couldn’t pass up. Baggins and the Fellowship in their gay man is on a mug that Burger King is I thought, ‘I’m still a kid. Time is one of quest to get the One Ring to Mount giving out? We’ve really come a long the few things I have on my side. Even Doom where it can be destroyed, and way, baby.’ So, if Burger King is okay Ian said to me, ‘Don’t give up the proj- stand against the dark lord Sauron in with an openly gay man helping to sell ects you really want for some extra time the process. But the Fellowship has been their fries and shakes, is there anything with your girlfriend or because you divided, with its members on different left to be worried about? If millions of don’t want to miss a holiday with your paths to defeat Sauron and his allies. Lord of the Rings fans don’t mind, I think family. They’ll understand. Just don’t Their destinies now lie at two towers — things can only get better.”

have any regrets.’” Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the And, as Wood has learned, The Lord of 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 But filming three movies at once was corrupted wizard Saruman waits, and the Rings followers are a loyal lot. “Our no easy task. Wood admits that, at times, Sauron’s fortress at Barad-dur. fans are pretty dedicated, and I really it seemed like “absolute madness.” Wood is particularly anxious to find respect that,” he says. “It’s something I “There were three individual scripts, out how audiences will react to the full can understand. I don’t understand although it’s one story,” he explains. introduction of Gollum, the mysterious Trekkies. It’s like, ‘Sorry, but it’s lame.’ I “One day, we might be shooting the character who lurked in the shadows of guess everybody has their own thing. first film, then the next day we would The Fellowship of the Ring. With The Lord of the Rings, though, I get shoot the other two. There were actually “I think Gollum is the real star of Two it. It’s a massive part of my life. So I get a couple of days where I would film a Towers, he’s very much a CGI character, excited by their excitement.” scene from Fellowship in the morning, but don’t expect another Jar-Jar Binks,” The Two Towers around noon and Return Wood says, laughing. “Actually, he’s a bit Earl Dittman is an entertainment journalist of good and bad. He’s a tortured char- based in Houston, Texas.

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him back atop a trusty steed — this time playing a real- R life Pony Express courier who travels to the Middle East, rather than a hobbit guide in Middle-earth. The based-on- a-true-story Hidalgo tells of American Frank T. Hopkins who travelled to Saudi Arabia with his horse (the titular Hidalgo) to take part in what sounds like an 1890s version of Mark Burnett’s Eco Challenge — a trek around the Arabian peninsula with a huge prize for the winner. The movie was directed by Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III), co-stars Omar Sharif, and was shot in locations from Morocco to Montana. It should hit theatres this March.

MCKELLEN GETS PSYCHED 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Gandalf the White, a.k.a. Ian McKellen, will see his powers considerably reduced when he plays a psychiatrist at a maximum security institution in Asylum. The film was recently shot in England, and centres on Natasha Richardson’s character, the wife of another doctor, who falls in love with a patient. McKellen will follow that performance with a turn as Antonio, the wealthy outsider, in a new version of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. No release date has been set for the adaptation, which will be directed by Michael Radford (Il Postino) and filmed in Venice, Luxembourg and Czechoslovakia.

BLANCHETT 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 PLAYS HEPBURN ASTIN MAKES TIME Cate Blanchett will follow up Of all the Lord of the Rings cast members, it’s Sean Astin, who plays her LOTR role of an elf who industrious Sam, who’s been the busiest. Fifty First Dates, a comedy in lives in the trees, with parts which he plays Adam Sandler’s brother, will be the first out with a that take her to the air and February release. He’ll also team with Lord co-star Christopher Lee sea. She recently wrapped (Saruman) for The Riding of the Laddie, a horror flick about a born- the Howard Hughes bio-pic again couple (Astin and LeAnn Rimes) who move to rural Scotland and The Aviator (shot in Montreal preach their beliefs with disastrous results. Astin will play H.G. Wells and L.A.), in which she plays in Mark Twain’s Greatest Adventure: It’s a Matter of Time, a time-travel a young Katharine Hepburn pic in which Wells chases a mad scientist through time. And he’ll do opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’s Slipstream, an indie flick which, strangely, is also about time travel, rendition of the eccentric with Astin inventing a machine that sends people 10 minutes back in movie mogul/airplane enthu- 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 time. Plus, he’ll play an ad exec in the Kim Basinger pic Elvis Has Left siast. LOTR’s own Ian Holm the Building. So far, Fifty First Dates is the only one with a release date. (Bilbo Baggins) also has a role as a meteorologist. And, right now, Blanchett’s in BRIEFLY Rome shooting The Life Aquatic under the direction of Wes For Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson’s next trick, he’ll Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums). In the first film that helm a remake of King Kong slated for release in 2005. � Elijah Anderson wrote without usual partner Owen Wilson, Blanchett Wood (Frodo) will provide the voice of a musically inclined plays a reporter for the magazine Oceanographic Explorer, who penguin in the animated feature Happy Feet, due out in 2006. is writing about a bumbling French oceanographer’s (Bill Murray) � Orlando Bloom (Legolas) will next be seen as Prince Paris in quest to find a mythical shark. The Aviator has a tentative the Brad Pitt epic Troy. Paris was the one who started the war by release date of December 2004, but there’s no word yet when stealing the lovely Helen away from her hubby. The film hits The Life Aquatic might be done. theatres in May. 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98

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ADAM SANDLER [www.adamsandler.com] IAN MCKELLEN [www.mckellen.com] HALLE BERRY [www.hallewood.com] 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 Best thing: Most sections of this well- Best thing: Coming to the realization that Best thing: You can leave. designed site were constructed to give refined, genteel, brilliant British actor Ian Worst thing: When she’s not trying to something new and creative to Sandler’s McKellen is also a bit loopy. The daddy of promote the makeup line she represents fans, with no apparent ulterior motive. all official celebrity sites, this one has been (Revlon) in the “Beauty and Fashion” Under “Features” you’ll find more than maintained by McKellen since 1997, to the section, Berry promotes the idea that she is a dozen short films, both animated and delight of Lord of the Rings and X-Men fans the most beautiful princess ever to trod live action, that were written or narrated alike — and, quite possibly, to the horror of upon our good Earth and that there is an by Sandler. And even if they’re not to your publicists for both those movies, as the unbound demand for her to reveal her taste (there are lots of poop and boner site’s most famous sections are his surpris- beauty secrets. While that demand may jokes) you have to admit that there’s some- ingly honest diary entries. While the well be true, Berry shouldn’t give in to it, thing admirable about the megastar’s filmmakers were trying to keep mum, because the result makes this Oscar-caliber effort to give his fans something for nothing. McKellen went online and fed ravenous actor seem shallow and vacuous.

Under the “Message from Adam” fans juicy bits from that week’s shoots, Other sections include “Halle’s Closet,” 100 2 5 25 50 75 95 98 banner you’ll find, among other things, a revealing everything from how LOTR’s where you can peruse some of Halle’s cache of passive-aggressive letters pur- Rivendell looked to how the Ontario weather favourite clothes, complete with comments portedly written to Sandler by his dad. put a crimp in X-Men’s filming schedule. like this one about a red Gucci blouse: They all start out nice enough, with plati- There’s also a great “Rumours” section “This shirt is very light and when I want to tudes about the weather and such, then where McKellen responds to bits of gossip feel sexy I put this little red number on! :)” devolve into angry sniping about Sandler’s like last year’s scorcher that he was going There’s also “Halle’s Workout,” where you cigar smoking, his slacker image and to marry his boyfriend (false). And there can watch her do crunches, and the requi- everything that’s wrong with the site: “You are lots of photos, like the above pic of site “Inner Beauty” section with “Letters could be a positive influence to so many McKellen (left) with X-Men director Bryan from Halle’s Heart.” That’s where she shares people, and yet you choose to put forth the Singer (centre) and co-star James Marsden what nourishes her spirit (“The biggest thing persona of a HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT.” at Universal Studios. that I’ve done is becoming a mother…”),

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