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Tanner: Hey there!
It's Tanner from Studio C,
and I hope you enjoy this very special sneak peek
of season 11.
There I am.
Mom would be so proud.
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[audience cheering]
Peter Jackson: What an honor it is here
in the 2000 to begin our first ever table read
for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
[audience cheering]
[applause]
I am your director, Peter Jackson,
I'd like to thank my amazing cast,
Orlando Bloom, our Legolas.
Orlando: Hey.
- Cate Blanchett, our Galadriel, lady of the wood.
Cate: Hello.
- Sir Ian McKellan, our Gandalf the Grey.
- An honor.
- John Rhys-Davies, our Gimli the dwarf.
John: John Rhys-Davies.
- Liv Tyler, our Arwen.
Liv: Hi.
- Viggo Mortensen, our Aragorn.
Elijah Wood, our hero Frodo Baggins.
And finally, ladies and gentlemen,
we have found our Gollum,
Andy Serkis to join us today.
Andy: Hey, cool.
- Now just remember,
it's a first read through,
no need to make any big character choices,
we're just trying to get a feel for the script, all right?
All right, let's just hop on in.
Ah, we open to the gloom of a mountain cavern.
In the darkness we see the shadowy outline
of an emaciated figure.
Cate: The ring came to the creature Gollum,
who took it deep into the tunnels
of the misty mountains.
There it consumed him.
Andy: [Gollum voice] It came to me.
My own, my love.
My precious.
[audience clapping]
Elijah: Wow, what a choice!
- Brilliant.
John: Now that's acting.
Peter: Now no need for voices quite yet.
We're just trying to get a feel for the script, right.
Andy: [quietly] Okay.
Elijah: I think we can all agree
that that's exactly how he should sound.
- Uh, Andy Serkis is a phenomenal actor
and we're very lucky to have him.
Andy: Thank you, I'm sorry is it too big?
- No, not too big, not too big
just not needed at this exact moment, you know?
Just a long script and we've got limited time.
Moving forward, Cate, if you would.
- The ring came to the creature Gollum,
who took it deep into the tunnels
of the misty mountains.
There, it consumed him.
Andy: It came to me,
my own,
my love.
[as Gollum] My precious!
[clapping]
Viggo: What a mad lad, this one.
Ian: Now that's how you embody a character!
Liv: You look just like a little creature man,
I could watch that all day.
[laughing]
Andy: Truly I'm humbled by you all, thank you.
Peter: All right, let's just try and stay in our seats.
Andy, love the choice,
very strong choices,
but it's a long script,
it's over 200 pages,
so if we could just--
Orlando: So you want us
to just forget everything we just saw and heard?
Good luck, mate.
[laughing]
Andy: Peter, I'm sorry.
I will be cool.
Peter: No, no, you're fine,
I'm moving on, let's just move on.
Exterior, Shire Lane, day.
a cart rattles along a leafy road,
driven by a stooped figure in grey.
[gasps]
Suddenly above the cart,
our hero Frodo Baggins appears.
Elijah: You're late.
Ian: A wizard, [Gollum voice] is never late, Frodo Baggins.
- Wow!
[applause]
Peter: Let's pause, let's pause for a second maybe.
Orlando: Oi mate,
that's a blooming wizard if I've ever heard one.
Ian: What can I say, I felt inspired.
Andy: You inspire me.
[Gollum voice]
[laughing]
Orlando: When it's my turn,
you better believe I'm gonna do that voice.
Cate: Oh come on Orlando,
everybody knows you don't do voices.
Peter: No, no, Orlando no, no voices,
no, no weird body stuff and Sir Ian,
that's pretty much the same exact voice
that Andy just barely did for Gollum.
Liv: For all we know,
everyone in Middle Earth sounded like that.
Viggo: Now that is an idea.
Let's do that.
Elijah: [as Gollum] It's wonderful to see you Gandalf.
- [as Gollum] Oh, I would never miss
your father's birthday. Mr. Baggins.
Viggo: [as Gollum] Aragorn, king of man is in the scene now
and he loves fishing.
[cross talk]
John: [as Gollum] My axe!
[laughing]
Orlando: [as Gollum] Legolas is here and ready to party!
[clapping]
[laughing]
[indistinct yelling in Gollum voices]
Peter: Stop, please
everybody stop!
Sit down!
Get off the tables!
Would everybody please just stop!
[breathing heavily]
These books mean everything to me,
these movies will define my career as a director,
can we please just read.
[audience laughing]
I'm sorry I shouted.
It's just that to me,
the Lord of the Rings novels,
they're extremely, um,
well, they're extremely,
[in Gollum voice] precious!
[yelling]
What's it means, Fat Albertses?
Ohana means family.
Leave and never come back!
Andy: Yeah, we don't like it when you do it.
So... sorry mate.
Orlando: Okay but Pete,
what did you think about that line I just improvised?
Peter: [normal voice] Legolas is here and ready to party?
Elijah: That was made up?
Sir Ian: You came up with that?
[yelling indistinctly]
[applause]
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