Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Legolas is that kind of action elf who pouts a bit, stares off to the distance, and has a couple hero moments, killing with a lethal bow and arrow along the way.
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
The spirit of the four hobbits in 'Lord of the Rings,' I suppose I miss that.
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.