FILM 1239: THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
THE RETURN OF THE KING
TRIVIA: Billy Boyd's singing scene
largely came about because Philippa
Boyens went for a night out at a karaoke bar with the younger male
cast members and she was very struck by the quality of his voice. Remembering
that Denethor asks Pippin to sing him a song when Faramir heads off to war, she
resurrected the lyrics from the novel and Boyd himself came up with the tune
for it.
Viggo Mortensen estimates
that, during the course of filming the entire trilogy and including all takes,
he "killed" every stuntman on the production at least fifty times.
Since John Rhys-Davies suffered
constant rashes from wearing the Gimli make-up, the make-up department gave him
the opportunity to throw his Gimli mask into the fire on his last day of
pick-up photography. He didn't hesitate a moment to grab and burn it.
The dead oliphaunt carcass used in
this film is reportedly the largest prop ever built for a motion picture.
According to members of the prop department, director Peter Jackson still
thought it could have been bigger.
While filming the trilogy, Viggo Mortensen got so
into character that during a conversation, Peter Jackson referred to
him as "Aragorn" for over half an hour without Mortensen's realizing
it.
Miranda Otto had to
undergo numerous fittings to finally settle on a helmet that disguised her face
yet revealed enough of it so that the audience would know who she was.
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