The New Zealand director also told him to 'Fire his agent!'
The Big Picture The road to making The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was a long and winding one. The casting process alone is a rich story filled with "what ifs" and "could have beens," as iconic actors from Sean Connery to Nic Cage were almost considered for roles in Peter Jackson's epic Tolkien adaptation. Jackson was particularly selective when choosing a Frodo, though. For the Hobbit protagonist, he wanted a young, relatively unknown, and preferably English actor.
Being just under twenty years old with a boyish face, small stature, and innocent blue eyes, Gyllenhaal did indeed look like a natural Frodo. However, the interview continues with Gyllenhaal explaining how we went in person to read for the part, and had to act out a scene before Peter Jackson. He describes the scene as having hardly any dialogue, but lots of stage directions — including Frodo picking up the One Ring.
Elijah Wood's Unique Entrance Into Middle Earth The part, of course, went to Elijah Wood, another rising American actor who was just a teen at the time. In an Esquire interview, Wood revealed that his audition was not without its own eccentricities. Like most actors, Wood did not audition in person, but sent a VHS tape to Jackson.
Jake Gyllenhaal and The Lord of the Rings Cast Made It There And Back Again Despite — or in some cases because of — all the twists and turns along the way, The Lord of the Rings' casting ended up being close to perfect. Each actor has become the image of their character, and we can't imagine anyone other than Ian McKellan, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, John Rhys-Davies, Orlando Bloom, and Elijah Wood making up the Fellowship.
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