8 Actors Who Didn’t Read The Book Their Character Was Based On

He later told Yahoo! Entertainment that he “felt unprepared” for the role. But now, it seems he’s so familiar with the source text that he turned down a cameo in The Hobbit due to his loyalty to the novels: “Before they started shooting, back in 2008, one of the producers did ask if I would be interested.

“I said, ‘You do know, don’t you, that Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit? That there is a 60-year gap between the books?’” he revealed.

5) If you think that’s bad, Elijah Wood only started the Lord of the Rings books this year

In 2021, Elijah Wood, who plays Frodo in the franchise, told Esquire: “The book is dense and verbose and incredible and literary and beautiful, but heavy.

“I found it taxing to read the book with all the work in tandem I was doing on my character. I sort of pivoted my focus to just live in the world of the character as written in the scripts and trust the process.”