Paladin Rules Out Hobbit Role (March 5, 2010)

[KrisV]

Cinema Blend reports that John Rhys-Davies has ruled out playing a dwarf again in the upcoming Hobbit film, citing, among other things, the difficult working conditions for the part of Gimli in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

If you’ve watched any of the behind the scenes material from Lord of the Rings you know what a struggle it was for John just to make it through filming on the first trilogy. His makeup was brutal and caused an allergic reaction. He had trouble breathing inside his costume and let’s face it, he’s not getting younger. Just doing Lord of the Rings was a struggle for him, a struggle which he embraced and an experience which he loved, but now that he’s even older and presumably even more fragile it’s easy to understand why he might be unable to take the punishment of putting back on his dwarf costume.

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Original update published on March 5, 2010

 

[Lt.Overload]

He was also featured recently in a Nintendo Power magazine, interviewed about his role in the new Lord of the Rings game.