dierna
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2005 09:48
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=32330
Elijah Wood, who starred as the hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, told SCI FI Wire he was disappointed that he couldn't coordinate a surprise cameo of hobbits for Jackson's next epic, King Kong.
"I think that early on we had conceived of maybe trying to get the hobbits out there, maybe Billy [Boyd], Dom [Monaghan] and myself to try and do some kind of cameo: get stomped on by a giant foot or something or maybe even dressed as hobbits way in the background or something," said Wood, who is traveling with director Liev Schreiber at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting his latest little film, Everything Is Illuminated. Although Wood is now focusing on small indie movies—Green Street Hooligans is also coming out soon—Wood said he's still in very close contact with his fellow Lord of the Rings cast members and crew.
"We never got to do it, because Dom was super busy on Lost, and Billy has been working," Wood said in an interview. "So we couldn't coordinate schedules to do it."
Wood did get a chance to visit the set of King Kong in New Zealand during filming and saw Jackson and the old crew he worked with for nearly four years.
"I was actually surprised at how overwhelmed I was, because I was walking onto the same stage that we used and all the same crew, and it was amazing," Wood said. "It was great to go back. It will always be such a huge part of my life, that country and those people."
Wood will next be a voice of a penguin in Happy Feet. King Kong, from Universal Pictures, opens in December.
Dierna note: Aww.. I would have loved to have seen a bunch of Hobbits get stomped on by King Kong! 
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