MTV.com (12.01.2012)

MTV- interview mit Richard:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/167713 ... bbit.jhtml
Named " MTV's Ones to Watch"- ich glaube, die Welle fängt schon an zu rollen ...
We spoke with Armitage about traveling to Middle-earth, the difficulty of working under pounds of makeup and leading a band of treasure-seeking dwarves.

MTV: Congratulations on being named to MTV's Ones to Watch!

Richard Armitage: Thank you very much!

MTV: Where are you currently in the filming schedule?

Armitage: We just finished up our second block, so we start again at the end of January, and then we go — we think it's the end of July. Then there's a bit more in 2013, we reckon.

MTV: What's it like being on a single project for so long?

Armitage: It's really weird because when we started it was just this enormous mountain to climb, but actually, it's going so fast. I think we've gotten to the halfway point now. It's been really intense but so exciting. We literally just finished our location shoot that we've been out on the road seeing most of New Zealand. It's been the best thing I've ever worked on in my life, by far.

MTV: Is it easy to forget you're acting? Do you get lost in the world the production creates?

Armitage: The soundstages they made in Wellington, [New Zealand], most of the time it doesn't feel like we've been working on a set. Even when there's a green screen there, Peter's vision of it is so clear and his description of it is so clear. The pre-production CGI that they've already created really fires up your imagination. That was the shoot we started with. On location, it's just theirs to program these amazing images into your head, so we can now take them back into the studio.

MTV: Will it be hard to leave behind once you've wrapped?

Armitage: It don't think it will be possible to leave it behind me. I think this is one of those characters that always stay with you because you spend so much time with him and it's such a transformation. I'm in the character every day, and I've become so familiar with him. I sort of know how he thinks. I feel really close to the character, and he will continue beyond this job , [spoiler ahead] even though, he dies at the end of the movie. I think he is a fascinating character. I will probably wake up in six years' time and be inspired to think about him again. It's really exciting.

MTV: How did your previous knowledge of the story change how you approached Thorin?

Armitage: I read it quite a few times when I was young. I think going back to it as an adult is really interesting because it is a book that was, I think, was written for Tolkien's children, but when you're creating a piece on this scale, you have to really visualize it for a much broader audience. I think that's the beauty of Tolkien. He does create very well-rounded, quite dangerous characters to play his protagonists. He risks scaring kids. He's the original fantasy creator, and I think you have to invest those characters with the same gravity as if you were making a piece for adults. It was interesting coming back to it as an adult, re-reading it again, because it did have a simplicity to it, which I really like. I felt we could take those characters and really develop them beyond the book.

MTV: You ended up with middle ground in terms of the amount of makeup. Did you feel lucky?

Armitage: It did evolve. We all started with quite an extreme version of ourselves. I think because my character does spend a lot of time onscreen and you really have to understand what he's going through emotionally, it became clear that if we started make the prosthetic as close to my features as possible but still make him a dwarf, it would be much easier to read the character. He has to go on such a journey, it was really important to do that. I grew my own beard after the first block because I felt that it was restricting my face. The jaw is so connected to emotion that I wanted to have that free. It made such a huge difference.

It's really weird now because I can't play the character when I haven't gotten everything on. It's very hard to rehearse when you're not in costume, when you haven't gotten the prosthetics on, but I look in the mirror when it's all finished and I don't see it. I can't see where it starts and where it ends. I just see the character. I've never had that before. It's such a unique experience. It's a face that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to WETA workshop and the people that created it.

MTV: How was it on set with so many actors playing the dwarves?

Armitage: I love it. I absolutely love working as an ensemble member, and we really are an ensemble. There's great camaraderie among all the guys. There is such a diversity of culture and background. We're working with a lot of Kiwis, and there's real mixture of British actors who come from television and theater and film. It's exactly as the dwarves are. When Thorin assembles the quest, he pulls dwarves from all different places to go on this quest. That's mirrored in who we are as actors.

So ein großes Interview muss doch seinen eigenen Thread haben!

Oh, toll!

Schönes Interview! Schade, dass man es nicht sehen kann. Aber, vielleicht gibt es ja mal auf YT.

Danke, Nimue!

Bei dem Video handelt es sich glaube ich nur um den Trailer.

Bei dem Video handelt es sich glaube ich nur um den Trailer.

Ach so. Na ja, wenns weiter nichts ist, ist es ja nicht so schlimm.

Es ist immer wieder interessant seine Sicht auf seine Rollen zu lesen - tolles Interview!

Schön! Da rollt noch einiges auf uns zu und auf Richard!

Dieses Bild gehörte ursprünglich zum Artikel und wurde wieder zuückgezogen, thanks to Phoebe von C19:

Hier kann man bei MTV für den Hobbit abstimmer, und er braucht noch ein paar Stimmen, um die erste Runde zu überstehen: http://www.mtv.com/content/news/2011/mo ... ndex.jhtml

MTV: Congratulations on being named to MTV's Ones to Watch!

Oh ja, er ist definitiv "Ones to watch!"
Mannomann, das muss ein irrer Dreh sein. Über eine so lange Zeit am anderen Ende der Welt und in einer anderen Welt.
Das kann man, denke ich, nur machen, wenn man ungebunden ist. Richard scheint es wirklich zu genießen. Schön für ihn.

MF und viele andere sind nicht ungebunden. Aber den Frauen und Familien wird natürlich viel Geduld und Verständnis abverlangt. James Nesbitt hat ja seine Familie mitgebracht, aber viel sehen wird er sie wohl trotzdem nicht.

Hier kann man bei MTV für den Hobbit abstimmer, und er braucht noch ein paar Stimmen, um die erste Runde zu überstehen: http://www.mtv.com/content/news/2011/mo ... ndex.jhtml

Man kann auch mehrfach voten

Someone's having the time of his life... Noch ist das etwas unwirklich für mich, verfolge auch nicht alles rund um den Hobbit, aber irgendwie erinnert mich das ein wenig an die Monate bevor Twilight rauskam und die Leute nach und nach auf RP aufmerksam wurden. Bei Richard wird der Rummel um seine Person hoffentlich nie solche Ausmaße annehmen.

Endlich mal was Neues!

Warum haben die denn das Bild wieder zurückgezogen

Noch ist das etwas unwirklich für mich, verfolge auch nicht alles rund um den Hobbit, aber irgendwie erinnert mich das ein wenig an die Monate bevor Twilight rauskam und die Leute nach und nach auf RP aufmerksam wurden.

Komisch...dieses Feeling hab ich auch irgendwie ....und jetzt kommen schon die ersten MTV Interviews ...mannomann bin echt gespannt was da noch alles kommen mag, denn wenn es gut für ihn läuft...und den Charme und die Intelligenz dazu hat er ja unumstritten...könnte ich mir schon eine Karriere ala Viggo Mortensen vorstellen.