![]() ![]() He's gone down his personal little rabbit hole. "I guess he looks like he's been on an island on his own for three years. ![]() As well as working with Izzard, one of his heroes, Wood relished the chance to create the look of his character – dreadlocks, trinkets, tribal face paint, serious suntan. He plays Ben Gunn, the castaway who comes to figure in the second half of the two-part drama, which was filmed in Puerto Rico. "They described it as Goodfellas with pirates," Wood laughs, as if not quite convinced himself. There's a bit of dirt and grime to the affair, and the casting is an interesting multiracial mix, with a shaven-headed Eddie Izzard as the wily Long John Silver. THE HOBBIT FRODO MOVIEIn the wake of a certain other colossal pirate-related movie franchise, it is amazing nobody thought of dusting off Stevenson's classic before, but this two-parter steers away from Johnny Depp-style camp in the direction of HBO's dark seriousness. This festive season we'll see a more family-friendly Wood gracing our screens, thank God, in Sky's lavish new rendition of Treasure Island. What would Gandalf have to say about his behaviour? Before long, he is smoking bongs with his new canine buddy, and defecating in his neighbour's boots. Or rather, everyone else sees Wilfred as a dog Wood sees him as a lairy Australian in a dog outfit. THE HOBBIT FRODO TVThen there's surreal TV sitcom Wilfred, in which Woods plays a suicidal loser whose life is turned around by a dog. ![]() This year we've seen him channelling the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock in their half-hour Fight for Your Right Revisited film, in which he takes drugs, gets stabbed by Chloë Sevigny and ends up urinating over the Beastie Boys from the future (it's a long, silly story). "It's more about seizing opportunities that I think are interesting." "It's definitely not been an intentional thing to shy away from mainstream cinema," he says. Wood also cropped up in middle-sized films such as Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated and Sin City, but recently he has been further off the radar, in short films, web films, music and, increasingly, television. I was only in makeup for four minutes a day!" "So the first thing I worked on was a movie barely anybody saw, called Ash Wednesday, and one of my reasons for doing it was because it was really tiny. "My immediate feeling after the first Rings movie came out was that I couldn't conceive of doing anything massive again," he says. If the fate of Star Wars' Mark Hamill ever awaited him, he seems to have avoided it, largely by doing as many un-Tolkeinesque things as possible. He's dressed in standard hipster/skater attire – plaid shirt, skinny jeans – and he seems relaxed and chatty, often breaking into a bemused, falsetto laugh. He's not at all like Frodo in real life, even if those big blue eyes still look like a special effect. It would be easy to imagine that in the years since Wood finally hurled that infernal ring into Mount Doom, he has still been burdened by it, dragging himself around an indifferent movie industry where nobody can see him as anything other than the hairy-footed little hero of a colossally successful movie trilogy. I keep it in a little box." Not on a chain around his neck? "I carried it for a long time," he says with mock solemnity. ![]() But I don't think it's real gold – gold-plated. "I do have the Ring, but it's not inscribed, and it's gold. ![]()
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