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Hugo Weaving on returning to Middle-Earth


It’s been well over a decade since Peter Jackson and his crew began filming what would eventually become The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with so many of the same faces popping back up for The Hobbit, it’s almost as if nothing has changed. Hugo Weaving, who plays Elrond in both the older trilogy […]

It’s been well over a decade since Peter Jackson and his crew began filming what would eventually become The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with so many of the same faces popping back up for The Hobbit, it’s almost as if nothing has changed. Hugo Weaving, who plays Elrond in both the older trilogy and the new, is quick to agree: when talking to The A.V. Club about how different this newer production felt from the original one, he seemed fairly adamant that it didn’t. “Well, tonally, I think the film is slightly different, but the experience didn’t seem radically different, to be honest,” says the actor, who also appears in this year’s Cloud Atlas alongside his longtime collaborators, Lana and Andy Wachowski. “But a lot of the same people, both in the crew and some of the cast. Going back and standing with Ian McKellen on the set again 10 years later, we felt very much at home, in a way, and very much like no time had passed at all. A lot of the other cast were different from The Lord Of The Rings, but it felt like a very similar experience.”

The first installment of Jackson’s latest Middle-Earth trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, hits theaters in every format imaginable on December 14th.~Devin Garabedian

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