[on being 100% natural in every film to the point where he’s always himself] Which is boring to the audience and boring to me. In the old days, I used to prepare, run around the block, do push-ups, psych it up, all that. When I say conceptual, I mean that I read the script, and it’s ingested. There was a book, by Arthur Koestler, called “The Art of Creation”. One of his examples was that Handel [George Frideric Handel] dreamed “The Messiah”; when he awakened, he set it right down on paper. There’s a certain truth for me in that as an actor. I do dream it, I do conceive it, and it’s there.
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Happy Birthday: Graham McTavish
A nice part for me was that Dwalin would name his axes. It’s not Tolkien, but I always remembered Emily Bronte had two hounds that she called Grasper and Keeper. She was a tiny little woman, but she had these enormous dogs and they struck me as great names. It was just for me to imagine, but I mentioned it to Peter and he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, this’ll be great. We can engrave them with their names and they’ll look really cool!’ and now there they are, Emily’s axes!
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