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I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Billy Boyd

To play one of the main characters in it, it’s not the kind of thing you don’t do. Oh, I’d rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings…
BILLY BOYD

Character Jobs Thinking
Sometimes the songs you think will be best don’t turn out to be best.
BILLY BOYD

Sometimes Song Thinking
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
BILLY BOYD

Apples Cameras Throwing
I think I have a gift… but I haven’t really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.
BILLY BOYD

Given Havens Thinking
I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
BILLY BOYD

Influence People Together White
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
BILLY BOYD

Habit Sleep Whistling
Acting, music, painting… it’s very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.
BILLY BOYD

Acting Actors Thinking
People are scared to make something that doesn’t look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get ‘Four Weddings And A Funeral’ made again and again.
BILLY BOYD

Funeral Mean People Something Wedding
I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I’d like to direct rather than act.
BILLY BOYD

Acting Script Thinking
I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t fun to go to these nights out, like the opening of a film or something, but I dip in and out of it.
BILLY BOYD

Fun Lying Night
In fact, I’m trying to think – what else would you rather do, you know? I can’t actually think of another job that I’d rather do.
BILLY BOYD

Character God Play Trying
The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
BILLY BOYD

Hair People Weekend
Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. Its not glam.
BILLY BOYD

Leaving Lying Noon
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they’re trying to tell.
BILLY BOYD

Character Emotion Stories Trying
A lot of ideas took us to dead ends or we found the tone wasn’t just right. I think we discovered very quickly this wasn’t just a song to end The Battle of the Five Armies – it was a song to say goodbye to Middle-earth.
BILLY BOYD

Army Battle Discover End Goodbye Song
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing.
BILLY BOYD

Country Enjoying Land Scots

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

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I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

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