FILM 1198: THE LORD OF
THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS
TRIVIA: Viggo Mortensen broke two
toes while kicking the steel helmet by the orc pyre, and that take is the one
that actually appears in the movie. Peter Jackson
said that he was really impressed with the shout of pain Aragorn cried out for
the fate of the two hobbits, realizing only later that it was real pain for his
toes. He was also impressed by the fact that Mortensen continued acting even
while so seriously injured. Mortensen later remarked that the only reason it
was even mentioned on the DVD release was because he was an actor and that the
stunt crew were injured far worse and pushed through it.
Andy Serkis said he based
Gollum's desperation and cravings on the withdrawals of heroin addicts.
As the Orcs have black blood, it
was only natural that the inside of their mouths should not be pink but black
as well. To achieve this, the Orc actors had to swill a liquorice-based
mouthwash prior to each of their scenes.
Andy Serkis said that he
based Gollum's voice on the sound of a cat coughing up a hairball.
Between takes, Brad Dourif stayed in
character by continuing to speak with an English accent until all his footage
had been completed. This was so convincing that, at the end, when he spoke with
his normal voice again, Bernard Hill
thought that his English accent was real and that his American accent must be
fake.
There were so many extras used in
the sequences at Helms Deep, and the filming went on for so many months that
almost all the extras and principal actors got t-shirts reading "I
survived Helms Deep". There were so many of these shirts that extras would
often meet other extras in New Zealand's main cities because they would
recognize the shirts.
The first sequel to be nominated
for an Academy Award for Best Picture when the original film did not win the
award itself, and the third sequel to be nominated for Best Picture.
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