Elijah Wood, of course, famously starred in three of The Lord of the Rings movies, so you’d think returning to play Frodo Baggins would be something like going home. Wood can’t gush enough about getting to be in Hunt for Gollum, but it turns out reprising the role came with its own surprises for the actor as well.
The Hunt for Gollum is on the 2027 movie schedule for the holiday season, and the production recently wrapped filming in New Zealand. Here’s what Wood had to say about returning to play the beloved Hobbit:
And I think one of the things that I hadn’t anticipated because, I don’t know that we’re that self-aware because we were the ones who were a part of the making of the thing. But this many years on, the crew is now largely younger people, and they all grew up on these films. And that’s a whole other element that I just didn’t even think about.