Tag: ian mckellen

saintalia:

saintalia:

actually the best part of the lotr cast commentary is getting to hear about sir ian mckellen’s gay agenda

i phrased this as a joke because it is pretty funny but its also worth reading what he said:

IAN: When I suggested to Sean that he took Elijah’s hand it was because I thought anyone who knew the book would care about the deep friendship, often of an innocently physical nature, and that might’ve been missed by two resolutely heterosexual actors who mightn’t appreciate that gay people like myself saw in a touch something perhaps more meaningful than others might. So to persuade him to touch Elijah, I’d say, “Well look, it’s in the book.”

[Sean & Elijah in a separate recording]

SEAN: Ian brought the book to me right before we shot it and he said, “Now look here, it says that Sam runs over and grabs Frodo’s hand,” he said. “The fans of the book are going to want to see that.” I sort of—I believed it, and I got a fan letter the other day that a neighbor friend handed to me, and it said how much it meant to her that Sam holds Frodo’s hand at that moment because it was something that she—it was one of the most important moments to her in the book.
ELIJAH: Oh, that’s fantastic. It’s those subtle little nuances, man.
SEAN: So thank you Ian.
ELIJAH: That’s unbelievable.

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smokesprite:

viggo mortensen’s appeal as aragorn is 70% the voice, 25% the scene where the wild horse saves him from drowning, 12% hair, 8% ‘the beacons are lit!’, 3% swinging around the broken blade, 1.03% spitting soup back into the bowl on a windy day, .3% the way he speaks elvish (which mostly fits into the voice, but its elvish so its special), and .0004% when he kicks the orc head and screams

This is blatant “smoking a pipe with his hood on in Bree” and “shoving the double doors of helm’s deep open” erasure and I will not stand for it.

I think kicking the orc head deserves more than a fraction of a percent when you factor in that:
a) He wasn’t meant to kick the head but did it in the moment because he’s that *~extra~* and wears his feelings on the outside
b) In doing so he actually broke his foot
c) Rather than swearing his head off and calling for a medic, he fucking leaned into it and transformed his actual agony into performance, and that’s the take that’s in the movie

Yeah I’m p sure the only person more dedicated to the perfect embodiment of the world than Viggo was Christopher “That’s not actually what it sounds like when you stab a man in the back” Lee, and that’s a pretty impossible bar to top.

Honourable mention to Sir Ian ‘puttin’ the gay in’ McKellan, who made sure every passionate declaration of loyalty and handholding between Sam and Frodo actually got shown on screen. We thank him for his service.