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What The Hobbit Cast at Armageddon Said

Posted by on March 11, 2013 at 10:23 am

Last weekend some of the cast from The Hobbit were at Armageddon Expo in Christchurch, NZ .

Dean O’Gorman (Fili), Jed Brophy (Nori), Peter Hambleton (Gloin) and William Kircher (Bifur) all took to the stage to talk about, among other things, The Hobbit.

KiwiCatherineJemma was there and has put her recordings on YouTube. We’ve listed the topics covered in each vid. below.

Dean O’Gorman

  • Part 2    Beard envy, Aidan Turner, Martin Freeman and Peter Jackson
  • Part 5    First day on set and how Dean didn’t see a single plate in Bag End.
  • Part 6    On being recognised
  • Part 8    Ian McKellen
  • Part 9    Dwarf jealousy
  • Part 10 Richard Armitage
  • Part 11  Locations and the barrel scene
  • Part 12 Souvenirs
  • Part 13 Stories of other dwarves and anecdotes
  • Part 14 Eagles scene
  • Part 16  Hot dwarves and “dreamy” Aidan Turner
  • Part 17 Peter Jackson’s naughty dwarve calendar
  • Part 18  The problem of dwarve names
  • Part 19  Filming May to August
  • Part 20 Fan fiction, Twitter and Tumblr
  • Part 21 Auditioning for The Hobbit
  • Part 22 Injuries and horse riding
  • Part 23 Singing Misty Mountain

Willliam Kircher, Jed Brophy and Peter Hambleton

  • Part 2  Learn to walk like a dwarve
  • Part 3  Make up
  • Part 5  Bloopers on The Hobbit. Visiting Ian McKellen’s pub. Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen
  • Part 6  Working with a large cast. Juggling plates.
  • Part 7  Dwarve calendar

You can check them out on KiwiCatherineJemma‘s site, but we’ve posted a few here.

William, Jed and Peter part 5  

Dean O’Gorman Part 5

Dean O’Gorman Part 8

Dean O’Gorman Part 10

Dean O’Gorman Part 11  

Dean O’Gorman  Part 17

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