My Set’s Better Than Your Set

Speaking to this month's Premiere magazine, Elijah Wood reveals that the teen cast from The Lord of the Rings took a week's vacation whilst filming in Middle-earth to visit the cast and set of Episode II. 'We felt like the rogue crew,' Wood says of his co-stars Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Orlando Bloom. 'There was a weird sense that with the two trilogies, there was this odd undercurent rivalry.' Perhaps it didn't help matters that the Rings crew were so emersed in their characters. 'They all thought that we were quite strange,' Elijah explains, 'because we referred to each other as the hobbits. They had a few laughs at our expense.' The role of Frodo was a gift to Wood who says; 'It's a boy's dream - never mind an actor's - to be given a sword and be told to attack these baddies and run up mountains.' So much so that he mooted the idea of a prequel to the rings to director Peter Jackson. 'I said "What about making The Hobbit?" He didn't know if The Hobbit would actually lend itself to a film, 'cause it's just adventure after adventure. It's not as heavy or as extreme as Lord of the Rings.'