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Billy Connolly to Film Pickups for ‘The Hobbit’

Posted by on April 9, 2014 at 10:57 am
Billy Connolly

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Billy Connolly will be returning to Stone Street Studios to shoot some continuity footage for The Hobbit: There and Back Again once he finishes his current stand up tour of New Zealand reports Stuff.NZ.

Billy, who plays the dwarf Dain Ironfoot, apparently suffered considerably with the heat of the costumes and prosthetics during the main filming two years ago, so will have a personal air-cooling system as developed for astronauts, to help him keep cool. This technology was used for cooling the dwarves in Thorin’s company during the filming. Billy says, “It’s very, very hot, so you wear this undershirt with little pipes going through it. You come off sweating and they plug you in and squirt freezing water through it.
“They try not to do it too often because you can get sick going hot, cold, hot, cold. It’s not good for you, but it’s extraordinary.”

The Hobbit: There and Back Again is due for release on 17 December, 2014.

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