CollectiveCon 2024 - Cosplay Conga Line + Elijah Wood & Sean Astin: The Lord of the Rings Q&A Panel

[Applause] that was fun all right all right all right see you guys in this craftsmanship tomorrow for our costume contest which is 3:00 4:00 it is my absolute pleasure to welcome our first guest he is an actor producer and a proponent of Screen Actors guilds wrs whose body of work includes and Mak Some Noise if I mentioned something like The Goonies Rudy woo toy soldiers yes and Cen man yeah Budd teenage F ninja turos stranger [Applause] things that's nice cuz today he Jo to discuss the role of Sam Gangi please welcome Ry Rudy Rudy Rudy rud go inside line to wait is there anyone else that get to come out [Applause] all right and next he's an actor producer and director whose credits include Wilfred Shing jley Star Wars resistance yellow jackets and highly highly undervalued film Green Street Hooligans okay today he joins us to discuss the role of Proto wagons please welcome Elisha [Applause] W hi he didn't do the rooy speech I'm just saying oh I heard awesome welcome to Jackson Lads thank you oh so glad to have you here pleasure to be here it's good to be back I've never met the first time is that a Jaguar C no I did I didn't know Jaguars appeared in nature in uh in Florida they do big flan C we have we have cers but Jaguars yeah know and you got alligators that's what I know and I'm scared of them I'm not scared of them but I'm like you know healthy respect and so I've been trying to describe to people like I'm like no no man these are like and uh somebody said it was under their car that's not funny I really hope the next time you go to your car you're thinking ex maybe take a little peek and your life is saved save my life and because that just happened to me about 6 months ago uh animal control will not come out relocated unless it's at least 5 ft long yep I said how is this about 4 and 1/2 ft long no that's too small we won't do anything to it you supposed to get a tape measure out what was I supposed to I don't know it looks taller than me and I'm 5 five does anybody remember those memes that where they would take animals and give it kind of goofy names and for the alligator they called it the American murder log American murder log can't remember what they said about the ostrich was something like Overland something be I don't know any anyway oh L um okay I you've been talking about this this wonderful series of films for quite a long time so I just like to get some boiler plate background information on it for those that that may not know I did a all polling earlier so this is still new territory for some so let's just go back to the beginning um how did how did this uh series of films begin for each of you oh wow um well the very first time I heard about it I was in Austin Texas working on the faculty and there was a movie news website at the time called Ain't It Cool [Music] News was was working on the film as well and uh he said hey man Peter Jackson is making the Lord of the Rings as a feature film you should be fro and this was in 1997 I think it was the summer of '97 and they didn't not right yeah start they didn't start casting it in Earnest obviously for another year and a half but they were in pre-production kind of in the planning stages of it um that far I mean he he was also that site was known for its like the spies and getting news before it was news that was the whole thing so that was the first time I heard about it and then you know year and a half later uh my agent called and said they're casting for Lord of the Rings and um I was a big hey Nicole yeah Nicole but I was a big fan of Peter's work I I loved Heavenly Creatures um I love Frighteners so much um my dad was in the Fright n just Dad yeah the judge your dad is amazing he amazing the judge under appreciate so I was I was stoked that he was the one uh taking up the dad oh my God my Dad we're going to we're going to take a duplicate of this anyway I'll make this shorter so sorry um I uh I ended up making my own audition tape instead of going into a casting office which is the sort of normal process uh was it was before the notion of self tapes um apologies I have a cool uh I just wanted to do something that that would stand out uh from the P because everybody and their mother and their grandmother was auditioning for roin and so I made a tape with some friends and uh sent that in and yeah basically that was the same story and I eventually let Peter in Fran an audition for them in person but that was kind of my dad my dad auditions for candle did you know that yeah great yeah there there was a laundry list of some of my favorite living actors at the time your dad Tom Baker Patrick MC um I think think Sean Conor at one point that's what Sean con he wouldn't have auditioned though no he was in the discussion of be yeah and then because of that he did he ended up doing Le they offer me Ro of range and I didn't understand it and they offer me the Matrix I didn't understand it so I said fine I'll do this and now I'm quitting acting hi I didn't understand lord of the R I did it anyway smart very smart not all Sean missed big opportunities yeah yeah that's funny so yeah he he audition for it like yeah and he was like he he had such a kind of like optimistic gandal your D yeah so my dad's all about he's Buddhist I'm like I don't think G's a Buddhist maybe he is I don't know what do I know yeah I so he had his agent and we we were at the same agency right and uh and Nikki mirish who was also like on your account right she was one of your agents so she was my she called me I remember right where I was driving I was I was in my what kind of car did I have was there BMW at the time little 38 I convertible yeah sold it to Don mahad yeah he did yeah that was car $5,000 cash on the barrel was was that he got more better use out of it cuz he was single my wife and I got it together so I was a little bit like okay wait no you had I'm so old now I can't even remember like what car I had and when anyhow I'm driving in that car and it had a phone like that was attached to the car not thick I'm TI and Nikki M said that [ __ ] was on planes when you can swipe your credit card and make phone calls on planes I got in trouble the other day ridiculous doing a WhatsApp phone call I got in trouble on the playing today yeah you can't makeing Wi-Fi calls well you can listen and nobody knows but as soon as you try to talk no it wasn't WhatsApp yeah it was WhatsApp whatever so um so Nikki Mir says to me over the phone honey Peter Jackson is doing the Lord of the Rings trilogy for new line you have to have a Flawless British accent by Tuesday exactly what she said and I [Music] go what's Lord of the Rings she goes the the sequels to The Hobbit The Hobbit you know The Hobbit I was like oh The Hobbit I thought she met the Phantom to with totally different I'm reading the Lord brings like I don't see Milo I What's happen so but I I turned my car right around I went right to Barnes & Noble in the casino and I walked in and uh the gentleman working there I walked up to him and I said do you have anything by toine to to toine he goes tolken yeah toen token follow me so he walked me to a certain area of the Barns & Noble bookstore and he said here and there were like three shells filled with different versions of Lord of the Rings the hean home audio book of Lord of the Rings the Ralph Baki version there was like videos there was all this stuff and I was like my first thing that I did the very first thing he barely left me alone in the aisle I turned around to look at the bookshelf behind me to see what else I was missing how do you miss Lord of the Rings so anyhow so my I told my wife my wife called uh got the they used to have actual magazines that were the trade magazines Holly reporter and daily variety she went and got now they're all online he knows so they uh so she went there and she called a dialect coach and literally by the time I got home with these Lord of the Rings books from tol there there was my wife had an appointment for the next morning with this dialect coach so I powered through the first 130 pages and I kept thinking we were just graduated from uh UCLA my wife and I studied St English and history together and and when you read literature all throughout literature Gardens are like uh you know in farms agrarian life is the thing about Humanity that's always worth saving worth protecting so I'm reading that this guy samse gamji is a gardener and I'm like I get that I get what that is I get the like the sanctity of the garden of having your hands in the soil but mostly I was wondering why do I have to look at S I mean this arodor guy's pretty I asked Nikki I was like well do they have somebody for Aragorn yet she goes honey it's Sam wise so I auditioned for Victoria Bros who was also the casting director on The Frighteners so she cast my dad on The Frighteners and um it was uh the scene the audition scene was where Frodo has been stabbed by sheilo and is under the poison and Sam thinks he's dead don't go where I can't fall up he's not asleep he's dead a monkey could say those lines and get the job they're like the greatest lines ever written I did that and I remember looking at um at Victoria when it was time when I like did the scenes they were so easy certain scenes are just so even emotional scenes like if they're just that good they just do it and uh I remember looking at her and her looking at me and it was like it's something important just happened we were just a part of the thing it's just a room casting just in a room actor walks in hi you do the scenes and leave but something in that moment you're like something just happened here and um s oh something did happen something did I did the scenes that's what I just said just so but yeah so and then it took another four years for them to tell me it felt like four years the best was when the agent called and said was down in San Diego doing something and and the agent called and said they're calling for quotes they're calling for quotes that means they're going to make you an offer and they're trying to decide how much to offer you and they they don't want to offer you that was yeah that was like you when you when they call for quotes you your knees hit the ground and you start thanking God but it's not real yet until they actually make the offer and Peter Jackson was worried because I had just run the LA Marathon I was at a lean mean 130 lb well Sam wise needs to be like pushing 200 and he was like well there's a heavy set person in there's a there's an actor in England that is they're thinking of James Cordon says it was him I don't know if it was actually James Cordon or not like recently he said oh I I auditioned for Sam I'm sure he auditioned for Sam I don't know well they had me and somebody else so I had to go through and edit together footage of me in recent films where I was fat yeah to prove that I fat I had to put aat and like and then if you cut to months and months later we on the set you know we start fed with food a lot a lot more they called candies lollies like more lollies for Mr Aston Le and so now I had now I had gotten up to 175 from 135 on the thing and and uh I remember Peter looking me he was like like he he he knew he calculated that that was his plan like he trusted [Laughter] that I'm not playing Sam now anyhow we always try we we do these these q&as together we always try to come up with something that the other one hasn't heard of yeah news stories yeah cool that's a good one I love the I love the two of us been to a million times Sean at a meeting for the first time yeah was in the hotel lobby of the soof hotel yep yeah m c Cent yeah I was upstairs having got a wig I was coming downstairs he was I was first you came in for real okay so you were finished don't get it wrong all right someone going to tap from 2011 right so you had just come downstairs and I was heading in we saw each other immediately embraced we'd never met each other in our lives and I was like I'm 10 years older then so I was like the wise better I put my hand on your shoulder you were 28 at the time yeah and I go you ready for this and he goes yeah as it turns out he was ready for I was not it's true yeah uh again in the documentaries over the years I mean no film series of films have been made like that before and I don't think anyone's will be made like that again but um quite in that way yeah yes somebody in line today said it was a moment look you have you you have to contextualize it too like it was really Confluence of elements that cannot be repeated partially due to Simply its moment in time you know it was pre- interet being at its peak it was films were still predominantly only shot on film um we we we had all you know the effects were largely practical and anything that was digital was just simply because we you know we had to augment and create things that's out of thin air but it was really kind of a perfect mix of phys physical in camera old effects and visual effects shot on film without sort of the prying eyes of the internet it was like the one r.net was like the only site and they hat it cool news and you know which Peter used yeah he did Peter used Harry nles and that site you know Peter like guest wrote on that as a like ghost wrote on that site because they that was the first time that well maybe not the first time but it was it was the first internet connection with the fans where the fans were reacting in real time in a visible enough way that it would change Studio's decisions he would get some script and if he published a script it could actually they would kill the and the audience reaction was sort of negative like it should play with them was really interesting to this day Warner Brothers blames the failure of Batman and Robin on Harry no but yeah Peter was ah head of the curve they would conspire when to reveal when to oh a sneak peek or he got a hold of something and it they outsmarted the studio at every turn it was fantastic and and Peter used that for him to basically just retroactively say please everybody I am one of you and I'm going to prove it to you and and the dedication and everything else and this advanced stuff saying you're going to see a cut of the film in the theaters but I'm filming this for the director's DVD Collector's Editions and he just was he just he was putting all his cards on the table that filmmakers rarely do and he he put his trust he he opened himself up to fandom and they embraced that and they really really like eased a lot of anxiety he trusted the fans and used their enthusiasm to keep the studio honest and not making creative decisions that were like based on Commerce or based on formula or something like that it was pretty Prett Good Genius it's wild I mean those films also just they are extraordinary and they fully hold up to the test of time and they they can't be made again you know they can't be made again in that way I mean Sam a girlfriend we shouldn't froto have a girlfriend Sam is fro girlfriend he he said it not me so um male companion no one can dispute so but uh you were talking about the internet internet not being at its peak it was AOL was Netscape cell phones were huge welcome yeah unless you were at an office with the you know the gift of an isdm line like you didn't you know the dialog I think I on my laptop at a 56k modem and you yeah dude 56k [Laughter] that was fast um and you know were checking their email at the internet c yeah yeah and you I mean think of it now think of Our Lives now can you imagine a time where you can't just hold and take a picture and send it to somebody in the same minute it's only been 20 years 15 years it's really and you Lally cannot imagine life without some of the technology that we have in our fingertips and yet we were I mean they would put us in robes and um they have our feet covered with these booties if we were going to go from like where the main stage set was to like an outdoor thing in case somebody had a telephoto lens and took a picture of it so they were worried about like images getting out but imagine now every single person you remember you know the dunadan are the dunadan are the crows that Salon uses to be as spies anything that any of these crows sees Salon sees in real time that's what we all are with our cell phones absolutely I'm going go take questions before I do that I'm on behalf of myself and all the fans of attendance and all of the worlds um you guys have probably heard this in various forms but thank you thank you for your talents I thank you for your talents I thank you for your professionalism and I thank you for the performances you brought to these roles and also your greater bodies of work you have both been involved in so many fine films and televisions over your time you very much and we're always looking forward to the next project you guys do thank you so [Applause] much thank you [Laughter] for it's been an amazing thing for 20 years people have been coming up and telling us that how in hard times of their life these movies meant something to them how brought their families together so we know that and it's it makes it you know an honor the the words honor and privilege get uttered a lot but it is truly a blessing in our lives to been able to participate in something that has had such a meaningful impact on so many people and [Applause] tattoos that was one of my question but I for I'll let those way too uh uh actually real quick who came up with the idea H all get a tattoo radio I don't generally take credit for things but I got to say I think that was my idea it was absolutely your idea it the plane on the way to New Zealand did anything somehow the story oscillates between it being my idea and Orlando's idea it was my idea um damn it but yeah uh which is something that occurred very early on it was because we all knew that we were a part of something really special and we were along for this adventure this journey that would not be unlike that of which the characters that we were playing and I knew this is something that we would never ever experience again um and it felt momentous and significant in our lives no matter what the outcome of the films you know what I mean just the experience and so I just thought oh God a tattoo would be really incredible for all of us to get we didn't end up getting it until the end cuz some of them everyone sort of agreed it was a good idea but they were like let's just wait and make sure it was a good experience um that was yeah you you were going right out of the box and I was like you know I thought this is what always happens with me and Elijah I'm always like he's young to learn you know and then something happens and I'm like he knew it before me he understood it before me he gets it before me and I'm like just trying to keep up uh but I remember like now I'm a tattoo person now when I come to these conventions and people come through the table uh to me it is a feast of ink as I enjoy how people Express themselves with their with their art and with their tattoo and their and all the ways in which it means things to people I love it so much and but then I I I didn't really have that level of appreciation for it and at the end Elijah like we're doing it vle like organized the tattoo artist and at the uh at Roger's tattoo F cubis yeah so this guy was an older guy and that he opened it up on like a Sunday morning for us we got him in the early before whatever normal hours would be not the tattoo artists are up earing on Sunday but we were we were in there and I remember uh Ian mcken went first sir Ian M and I was he got it on his uh on his right arm here and I was holding his we were all kind of like hanging out we were all in a and um the the tattoo artist I said uh I said so how long have you been here and I was like 40 something years just along like that yeah and I said so you're pretty much part of the establishment not what tattoo artists want to hear and he goes I'm On The Fringe right on but when I told Christine my wife I was like I'm going to do it she really really going to do that and I was like it's just absolutely the right thing to do there's just no question that memorializing our experience and our relationships and not like [Applause] good always get Elijah at the top of the hill how'd you get up here away I'm up here okay I'm going to do this down H style and if you're old enough to get that recits God bless you I'm just going to go try to go around and and take some as it is we do a line of the other you won't be to get to everybody but they're here you guys here tomorrow right yes we are so be here tomorrow here on this stage let me you know this lady she had a lovely share TI earlier go and introduce yourself again what's your name he I want to know I have my own opinion about this but who of your characters was the real hero no question it's FR no question fro because he gives up his Immortal soul to save the world Sam for him understand good I've often found I mean fair enough to have that uh I've often found the question to be irrelevant because the two of them give the two characters give so much of themselves for the B Middle Earth is it's sort of a moot point to say that one is the true hero because honestly fro couldn't have done it without Sam but I don't know that Sam could have done it on his own Sam didn't you know and he didn't he and look you know there's just so many moments along the way too where where fro is starting to develop a relationship with gum Because he believes that SM there's you know smeel still in there and there's something to to to believe in in that that if he can come back I can come back as well and meanwhile samse is completely distrusted like distrustful and and had it not been for his sort of zeroing in on what's going on with froto to recognize that there may be some part to play here if it weren't for that he would have eradicated Gollum and Gollum was a key eradicating Gollum I like it all of Gollum plays just as massive a role honestly in the savior of H Al Earth is the two of these characters do it's They're all playing their individual Hearts you know and and vgo I mean an Strider Aragorn he's nothing to be sneezed at and he's the truest uh hero thing there's a lot of lot of critical moments where different characters AR I think the thing is it even Bor here you know in his failure ultimately it's it's the embarrassment of that failure that makes him the trueu hero at the end to save Mary and Pon and like sacrific himself himself I mean there's a lot of a lot of real heroic moves being made you don't see Sam corrupted no so you think you equate that with with perfection right right he's the ideal but he doesn't he's not tested in that way no so it's the willingness to sacrifice the willingness to give up your Immortal Soul you know the sh's been saved but not for me tah says he's s he's the Christ figure says to but Sam's awesome too it's awesome it's it's awesome in the movie when there's the scene where s is like you know sheepishly being a little selfish and he's like what do you think we'll ever be put in songs or tales and fr's like you know frto wouldn't got far without Sam I'm like come on K around what is a hey what's your name elanar elanar what do you have for us um I was going to ask what was of the three rovies which was your favorite Star Wars did I misunderstand I misunderstood [Music] last I knew I liked you that that's that is an unical Masterpiece my friends had another time um uh the fellowship Fellowship is my favorite uh uh of the three I I love I mean I love them all and they're the third is so unbelievably emotional and um and harrowing uh but there's something about the beginning of the journey the the establishment of the of the fellowship um the time spent in the Shire and kind of enjoying what that what there is to lose before we lose it and um yeah the sense of of Adventure before it bifurcates into all these different you know splintered stories of the individuals that have to break off I just love that movie I can't think of him in terms of individual movies because we sort of filmed them as one big movie and it wasn't until I saw them that I knew where one ended and the next one I really didn't know where the movies changed I think of moments like um when Hower the elf shows up at minister right Minister the hel sorry hel and uh and he says they come to honor the alliance of elves and Men I cry every time love that moment there's there's moments like that moments of dialogue throughout I mean in each of them yeah yeah I the first one the the cave troll fight in Balance balance J that that the entire the entire minds of morio sequence from the the moment that the door opens until the there is a big problem that though is there a problem big problem big big problem what's the problem so the premiere the premiere for The Two Towers in New York like it was incredible every time the movies would come out we' get to do a World Tour New York was the premiere for The Two Towers and it was um snowing bitter cold so so cold and remember we get into the limo to go from the venue to wherever we were always getting in and out of cars and chowing up and some guys banging on the limo door and we looking at him like is this a security issue so I roll the window down he says please give this to Peter Jackson and he hands me a letter he said I'm a thoracic surgeon we're like okay I don't think I know that there was a problem in bad's Tom balon's tomb really he goes the cave troll touches the Sunbeam you know the Sunbeam down on B well that would have turned him Stone St [Laughter] St back in li like movie came out a year ago I don't know like this surgeon like I hope that didn't interrupt up his concentration when his heart in you know it's my God to it's all that is pretty that's a major oversight and well I told Peter yeah what pet he goes oh [Laughter] well you guys don't tell anybody country out there be real of a world that's going to be upset it is okay you heard their answer do you have a favor probably the second why I don't know is there any chance that has something to do at the end there's a speech that one of the characters gives there's some good left in this world yes all right I think I we're just about time uh this uh this hand's been up time so me take this year what was your name it's going to be Alex Alex we stand what do you have so you briefly mentioned there the end F we all know that most of the filming was done with kind of live sets and wet work is a good way to put it I guess it was all very practical effect what was the craziest set piece you guys were ever on what what's you showed up and you're like don't F this oh man in special forces that phrase means something different but I remember being in the parking lot when we were doing the uh mid midat marshes the the dead the dead the dead marches yeah and it's basically in a parking lot and they put down a whatever a tarp and they kind of they were able to create f up on like a little platform yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but it was so cold your feet I mean I remember we were your feet felt like they were turned into you know your Hobbit spongy feet soaked up all the water and then it turned to ice and you thought you were going to die but you know there's those that stuff where you're looking at the dead things in the water and we're kind of moving along but there's cars just going by I don't know if that's what you had in mind but that's one of the the first thing that occur to me um nothing can really beat the Majesty of the H in is just like crusting over that Hill cuz if anyone's ever been it's on a big piece of farmland and there's a bit of a drive from the main road to get there and so there's you're just seeing Hill after Hill after Hill and there's no real sense of a shy area and then you cross that hill and then there is in all of its majesty and they had built that location they built those Hobb holes and planted it a year prior to our arrival so that all of the vegetation would have time to grow and it look lived in and like it had existed for hundreds of years and so that that took our breath it was just real there we could walk around hobon and there was B end just as we'd always imagined it like with the big tree and everything totally [ __ ] magical another one that's that's the same maybe it's not better but it's at least the same and the asterisk is I didn't personally see it I know I probably could have too but it's what's theoden's oh edas edas on top of that mountain where they put that thing that's real yeah they built that they built that on the top of that mountain I mean apparently as all yeah that dangerous to try and get that stuff up there that's when I see that shot of Miranda Auto and the helicopter a real helicopter not a drone they didn't have drones then yet no drones no drones uh I it's like wow this is really a big movie this is like spacular yeah so and I mean yeah how deep was the maze like I mean I we also didn't get to see that like drove by the highway like we were in that sequence you have to also Imagine like once the fellowship breaks apart there are all these sequences in the film that froto and S part of that we weren't there like we weren't at Ed we weren't at Helm Deep and there there's a whole world happening you know they shot two months of night shoots for H Ste two months of nights it's insane essentially all in the same place yeah rain rain machines Universe Happ we would be on word aart of you know there literally were t-shirts saying I survived hel SE and we would be doing something like walking across the sh another rock a lot of walk rock faces but I remember you know Peter's with us and it's and it feels like Peter and but there's one particular moment that I had in mind was they okay so there wasn't like Satellite Communication like there there wasn't FaceTime I mean it's really really not that long ago that human life was different and so they would have like a sequence or a shot at this quaring doing Helms Deep on the south island we'd be in the middle of somewhere in the north island and we'd have to pause for a minute because the ads with the assistant directors would have something to show Peter and like so Peter would step off and they would bring a clamshell which was like a little case like a little briefcase that you'd open up and there was a monitor inside and this at the time was like so advanced technology and they would play him a scene an angle of Helm's Deep where 800 extras and their rubber clothes were all kind of marching this way and he would look at it and we're looking over his shoulder and he'd be like can you have them all take like two steps to their left so they have to call back and explain it and she like why is Peter with us the two like knucklehead actors that could prob you know instead of with all of these people but it's really cool because that's where the emotion was this heart and so he wanted to be with the the heroes really uh and and uh cuz if I was directing I'd be like let those two little actors go that way and let me de with a battle scene like a battle scene awesome but anyhow yeah so so we were we were totally disconnected and yet you get these little Windows into the interconnectedness of the whole yeah oh yeah hi guys I'm Patty I want to know what kind of upcoming projects you may have on your jacket that you're allowed to share with us Patty there was somebody back there I wanted to get a question from she's right there you knows yeah this you're allowed to go extra on not I did this just to mess with you P Boss are we good all right what was your name again Savannah Savannah what do you have I'm think you're here again um I actually had a question was there any scene in all the free movies that was particularly like stands out maybe because something hilarious happened or something scary might have happening during filming that you can kind of share with us like a lot there are dozens dozens of do time you got no don't answer that question the first one I thought of when you said that was we were doing the scene at outside the black gate when um the mar what was the name of that army that comes marching out of the what is it the easterlings yeah I had I never knew so but if you get like the big Tolen like the collect that's like the big Bible it's always on the cover not always but it's on the cover and you see foto and Sam looking in there and Go's hiding in the foreground of of the painting and then they're coming out of the big black K well in the movie gollem wants to warn froto and Sam so he comes over and he grabs the two of us and he pulls us back well he grabbed through my hood and my cake and grabbed my Hobbit hair wig and ripped it right off the so I was like I didn't have a s hum about it I was an idiot I'm sorry I did eventually you did you did you warmed up to it uh I mean yeah all the time it's hard to identify moments specifically um I mean first day one day one was the hobbits rolling down onto the Wood Road like you know having run into um Mary and Pippen who who had been stealing vegetables from Far farmer maggots field they run into us and we roll down the hill like a like some kind of silent film and fall on top of each other it was such a beautiful way to start the movie actually it was such a wonderful comedic thing and Steve what's that Steve stunt double yeah broke his collar bone on that shot wow I was going to say I I was going to say I farted and it was I had one of those like concussed farts considering the typical Hobbit diet I'm not surprised yeah SM like roses start that was the first day and then the second day was underneath the tree hiding from the the pretty aw day every day had some other incredible thing you know you you the way he described hitan kind of was like most of the places we'd film and I thought of us like as a traveling surface yes because you there were so many trucks and so many you know all these different people that were associated with but we we'd go for example Peter Jackson would fly in the helicopter identify a piece of land topography that he was interested in they would land the helicopter on someone's farm and then get out and walk up to the farmer's door and knock on the farmer's door and explain what they were interested in and make a deal some Financial deal and once that deal was done they would get on the phone and an hour later you know a 100 trucks show up you like call in the Army and then you know and when you go to work in the morning it was dark and then you go into the makeup bus or you go whatever into the special effects bus and get your feet put on and stuff and then when you would open the door every single day virtually every single day you the Dawn would have broken and you'd be looking out at what you see in the movie beautiful gorgeous you know and you just you have a little cup of coffee in your hand you just think like how lucky am I to be a part of this thing where I get to look at this and there were certain days you might even start to take it for granted and then you sort of go like don't you know don't don't take for granded how amazing being a part of this is yeah yeah amen [Applause] yeah so this m with commission I will uh res submit the question uh do you have anything on your immediate dock at your love with us um remake of TR um toxic adventure and direct that come out sometime this year um I don't know if you know is anyone familiar with the company Mondo the posters and so a lot of the folks in the in the sale uh when Mondo was bought out by Funko Funko kind of gutted the the core team saying words now and um I a company called Spector vision and we along with some other partners have platform those original dudes under a new company called M so allow them to continue doing the awesome work that they do with collectible posters and soundtrack releases and uh so that's that's been happening and that's very exciting the coolest dude uh they brought me into to be a new character on the Connors so I have uh yeah so I get I get to do really a love interest so they're bringing in Sam BR to do that so and I love W and I were talking about that format it's one of my I grew up like my parents and my little brother did sitcom so I love multia prenium abut love rosand I love it a big big show us well I was it it it occurred to me when I was standing backstage I get to do all these shows I did Big Bang Theory and Brooklyn 99 and P yourself my character in Big Bang theer is Dr pton and at one point Sheldon comes up Dr pton Dr I'm like I cannot believe I get after 10 years of loving this show I get to be like on the other side of Shel FL um but with the Connors the thing that really kind of struck me was as funny as the humor is and it's a lot of class like you know working class kind of humor it's got like under the hood like a lot of heart it's got a lot of like honesty and they take on t issues and stuff so my stuff been pretty light so far I don't know what it has in store but I'm glad that uh that I get to be yeah I get to be part of yet another like American the show's been on I mean between the Roseanne show and then now is the Conor I it's season six it's been like 16 years that that family has been like in America and so I get to like walk in and be a Fedex pilot and call them up so time 2024 this [Music] selfie

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Published: Sun Mar 24 2024