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New Zealand musician, actor and comedian Brett McKenzie I remember how sir Ian McKellen He laughed a lot during the shooting peter jackson‘S the hobbit Movies.
McKenzie, 49, appeared as an elf in both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit franchises, while McKellen appeared as the wizard Gandalf and Hugo Weaving as Elrond, owner of the Elvish sanctuary Rivendell.
visible on positive vibrations Podcast, he recalled how the long periods between shoots promoted mischievous behavior of the cast.
A technically tricky scene that required the actors playing the dwarfs to be in a separate room so that they could later be “minimized” using CGI, meant that Weaving, McKellen and McKenzie were left standing around for some time.
“We’re sitting there, we start making ‘Lord of the Rings: The Musical’ to spend time, singing these songs about the elves and Gandalf — we were just having an absolute ball,” he said.
“Suddenly they were like, ‘Action!’ So we’re trying to do this very serious scene with a straight face. And then Ian McKellen starts humming [the songs we’d made up] Without moving your mouth.”
He continued: “It’s the funniest thing, when you’re not allowed to laugh and you start laughing – we’re all frantically trying to hide these laughs. And Peter Jackson cuts in and says: ‘Can the elves please stop laughing?’ It was a lot of fun.”
He said of working with McKellen: “He’s a lovely, fun guy [and] She has such a glow, it’s amazing to watch her acting because the magic of her face on screen is absolutely incredible.”
In the same interview, McKenzie spoke candidly about the making of her new album, freak out city, which came out in August via Sub Pop Records, along with some unique stories from their early touring days.
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He also talked about the possibility of a Flight of the Conchords ReunionTo celebrate the hit musical comedy the duo created with Jemaine Clement in 1998.
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After starting out as a live comedy act, the pair were given a self-titled radio series and then an HBO show of the same name, which ran between 2007 and 2009. He won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 2008 for his EP. far future,
McKenzie said, “We’ve been working on writing a little bit, trying to come up with new ideas.” “If we do a tour, it’s always fun to have some new stuff, it makes it livelier for us.”
McKenzie also works as a composer and music director on various films. In 2012, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Man or Muppet”, which appeared in the 2011 film. the Muppets.
He is currently on a headlining solo tour which includes two dates at London’s Bush Hall on 20 and 22 October.
full episode of Roisin O’Connor’s Good Companies Fridays with Brett McKenzie will be available on all streaming platforms from October 17th. McKenzie’s album freak out city It’s out now.