DP: Would you play your character any differently if you didn’t know that at the end of Tolkien’s book he dies?
RA: No, probably not. His death scene was left until quite late in the shoot. We didn’t shoot it until pick-ups, which I think was a good thing because I’d almost forgotten about that moment coming. I think that part of the creation of this character is offering the audience and other characters in the movie a potential future. He had to be someone who was going to be king, he was going to sit on that throne and return the dwarves to their former glory. And in a way, his death has to come by surprise to him. Having said that, I think one of the things– talking about Shakespeare again–that I admire about Richard the III is when he rides across the battlefield to fight, single-handedly, for his kingdom, for his crown. In the Battle of the Five Armies, Thorin is going to do something like that. It’s fatalistic. It’s almost an act of suicide. Playing it, it’s good I forgot I needed to die!
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Q: What did you like most about working on these films?
RA: That they never stopped writing the script, they never stopped working on it. Even when it’s all been shot and all the movies have been released, they’ll still be writing extra stuff, they’ll still continue to work on it and develop it. They’re probably still working on the first Hobbit film!

RA: Absolutely. I love, on a very basic level, that the elves are inspired by an art nouveau aesthetic and we dwarves are inspired by an art deco aesthetic. I love both periods of architectural design and I think it works pretty well. With Thorin we started with a lot of decoration, because he’s described as the prince or the king-in-waiting. That was very much incorporated into his costume. Peter and I negotiated with the costume designer, and we stripped back a lot of that, so that Thorin would look more like someone in exile, who is no longer wearing all of his jewelry and decoration. I wanted him to look more like a wild man than a king. That’s going to come later. But also he needs to have a face that people can relate to, so it wasn’t going to be too heavily disguised with silicones or elaborate hair. We simplified his look a lot, because we needed to read that face up close over a long period. We needed people to understand what my character was going through. So that was something that evolved.

Nimue hat geschrieben:Yep. Jugendstil ist blumiger, fließender- passend für Elben, während Art Deco auch dekorativ ist, aber die Muster eher gradliniger, strenger, geometrischer sind.

Laudine hat geschrieben:Und er war schon öfter in Wien.

Wahrscheinlich hängt inzwischen Klimts Kuss als hochglanzveredelter Kunstdruck über seinem Bett - als Zugeständnis an l'art nouveau ?