“The worst actor I’ve ever seen”: This famous actor could have played Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, but his meeting with Peter Jackson didn’t go well – Film News

Before Elijah Wood was chosen to play the famous Hobbit in Peter Jackson’s trilogy, Jake Gyllenhaal also tried his luck in casting the film.

Before achieving the fame he enjoys today, starring in famous feature films such as Donnie Darko, The Day After Tomorrow and Brokeback Mountain, American actor Jake Gyllenhaal tried his luck in one of the most famous cinema sagas at the end of the 1990s. 1990s.

As I said on the talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonhe went to casting from The Lord of the Rings, at the request of his agents, hoping to land the role of Frodo (which ended up being played by Elijah Wood).

Unfortunately for Gyllenhaal, the meeting with director Peter Jackson did not go as he imagined, and the audition turned into a fiasco for the young actor, to whom no one explained in advance what was expected of him.

“I got there and I remember walking into a room,” he explained. “There were a lot of stage directions and we didn’t have any dialogue to say. It was all about finding the Ring. I had to open something and find the Ring inside.”

The actor said that he acted without much conviction, without really understanding what he was supposed to do and somewhat confused by the lack of dialogue, in front of an apparently distressed Peter Jackson.

“You are the worst actor I have ever seen”

“So I had to say the lines and I did it without putting on an accent [britânico]”, explained the actor. “[Peter Jackson] He turned to me and said, ‘You’re the worst actor I’ve ever seen. Did someone tell you you should do an accent?’. I said no and he said, ‘Fire your agents.’”

Fortunately for Jake Gyllenhaal, his future career was not hampered by this bad experience, which he now looks back on with great humor.

Would you have liked to see him play Frodo in the trilogy?

*Translation from a partner website of QuandoCinema.

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