John Rhys-Davies feels ashamed for his part in the filming
Although the majority of actors The Lord of the rings speaks wonders about the filming of the trilogy Peter Jackson which adapts the book saga JR Tolkien, there is an interpreter who had a terribly bad time. No, they weren’t Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood or Orlando Bloom; neither Viggo Mortensen. Is about John Rhys-Davieswho played in the original trilogy and in The Hobbit to the Gimli dwarf. And now he assures that the recordings were a real ordeal.
Even his colleagues agree with him, because the prostheses that he had to wear on his face are not recommended to anyone: “poor John! For one day of makeup, he needed four days of recovery,” he explained at the time. Elijah Wood, Frodo in the saga. Sean Astinwho played Samagreed with him: “The prostheses, the glue, the plastic and everything else were eating away at his skin (…). It must have been horrible“.
John Rhys-Davies He has also acknowledged experiencing a very complicated shoot that he does not recommend to anyone: “It disfigured me so much that I became isolated and very paranoid, very alone. I didn’t want to go out or have dinner with other people.. She wanted to be alone, I was ashamed of my face. And for me, the most fun part of acting is being with other people.”
The actor assures that the rest of the cast got along very well and made plans togetherbut he did not feel like doing this filming of which he is ashamed, both for having to wear that prosthesis, and for his subsequent isolation.