More Great Interviews Surfacing from Comic-Con - Richard Armitage Talks More About Thorin Oakenshield

Thorin Oakenshield from Artist JBarrero on DeviantArt

More Great Interview Videos Surfacing - thanks to RichardArmitageNet.com and Allocine.fr interviews with Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.


Below in this video from Allocine.fr two wonderful clips of Richard Armitage talking about his character Thorin Oakenshield and working with Peter Jackson.  


Armitage should make a documentary where he talks exclusively about acting. Many great actors can't really explain how they do what they do. Some can talk about acting, but in a way that's unreachable for a general audience. Some get so wrapped up in how great they are they forget to relate to their audience.


Richard Armitage however is a treasure. Not only is he very articulate about his own work, and how actors work, but he does it in a way that's accessible to us all. He also manages to be humble and a true gentleman always. Amazingly he retains his sense of wonder in his work and shares this with us. 


But he's not a naive dreamer. Richard is also very aware of the  irony of the moment, if you can understand what I mean. I do adore his sense of humor and love that special twinkle in his eyes.


He has a great sense of the beauty of words and of creating poetic images with those words. We can feel it comes naturally to him, this is the way he sees the world. In many of the SDCC interviews and also in Video Blog #8 we see beautiful examples of this when he's talking about working on The Hobbit and being Thorin. He's such a pleasure to listen to.

Memory Lane: Back to the Beginning of Lord of the Rings Media Coverage

Martin Freman, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis at SDCC 2012

From Warner Bros Pictures Website

In interviews during the just ended San Diego Comic-Con 2012, Richard Armitage said (I'm paraphrasing a lot now) how envious he was of the relative obscurity and seeming innocence of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy cast when they were filming in New Zealand over a decade ago.

So I thought it would be fun to go back to some of my favorite interviews of the LOTR cast from those days back in 2001 when a large part of the world had yet to encounter Hobbits, Dwarves, Wizards, and Orcs.

I should also mention, in case you're new at visiting this blog, that I'm a long time fan of Sean Bean and so I followed LOTR news as soon as he was cast. (Sean was in his 20's when I first became a fan, but amazingly I was just a toddler in those days). 

Two interviews from Cannes 2001 when the movie industry insiders and the press got to see 20 minutes I believe of the Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring and marked the start of PR for the film and the trilogy, much like SDCC just marked the start of major PR for The Hobbit:

Sean Bean (Boromir), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) Cannes 2001

Sean Bean on the Frank Skinner Show (Part 1) trying, not entirely successfully, to explain some of LOTR's special effects without giving away any secrets...and can we say "action figure":

More Favorite Hobbit and Thorin Moments from SDCC

Another favorite Photo: The Hobbit Cast at the San Diego Comic-Con Panel 

July 14, 2012

from newsday.com

A few more favorite moments from HobbitCon yesterday that are now making their way to the public light. 

I was watching the interview below live thanks to TheOneRing.net but couldn't hear it well because of the background noise. Among other questions Quickbeam from TORN asks Richard Armitage about Tolkien. More proof from the interviews yesterday, if any is needed, that Richard Armitage is a very intelligent and articulate man. 

   

Video From Bccmee

Interview from TheOneRing.net

Our Geek Adonis

I loved that he was having fun too, enjoying the moment, comfortable but reserved as he is by nature. He also had a smile and that mischievous twinkle in his eyes. I would love to know what Richard Armitage thinks about this moment in his career. Hope someone asks him in a future interview. 

From Zimbio

Another view of the panel - not mine of course - I wasn't there. 

Update Jul 20, 2012: Part II of The Hobbit Press Conference (Part 1 above). Good Audio. Thanks to  www.lacosacine.com for both parts of the conference.

As a Lord of the Rings film fan, I also so enjoyed seeing Elijah Wood, and Andy Serkis, and Sir Ian McKellen, so united with the new cast, Martin Freeman and Richard.  Loved hearing from Philippa Boyens because we rarely do, and of course, all thanks a thousand times to Peter Jackson. 

I also loved that moment in the EW.com interview when the interviewer mentioned Richard III!

Can't wait for the next Hobbit Video Blog! 

RA Photo from RichardArmitageNet.com Thank you Bccmee for being able to hear the interview video.

Update: Another Angle from the Press Conference, Richard Armitage towards the end:

Update:  A glimpse of Richard Armitage in this Air New Zealand Comic-Con 2012 Commercial:

My Favorite Photo of HobbitCon Today So Far... and Video Interviews with Richard Armitage

Bilbo, Thorin, and Gollum

Thanks to Cinerd

https://twitter.com/cinerdweb/status/224242457397833730/photo/1


and my favorite interview so far from Fandango:

Another lovely interview by Richard Armitage our Thorin:

I really realized today how much I missed listening to Richard Armitage talk about his work. Today has been such a pleasure, and such fun to share with my dear fellow fans. Thanks to TheOneRing.net for making it possible for all of us not actually there to feel so much part of the HobbitCon experience. 

Update: Thanks to Quickbeam from TheOneRing.net Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens answer the hot dwarves question:

Comic-Con Live Coverage Quick Guide Lite: Hobbit, Raining Thorins, Dwarves, Game of Thrones, and More

If you are like me, with no possible way to be at the San Diego Comic-Con this week, you want to know the next best thing, how to watch the most of what is going on at Comic-Con from your living room, laptop, PC, Tablet, etc. 

Here is my quick guide on some outlets that will be covering SDCC and you know they will be covering The Hobbit panels and events, as well as the Game of Thrones panel and more. I don't know if all of it is available everywhere around the world, but you can follow the links and find out for yourselves. I'll be glued to SDCC every afternoon from tomorrow afternoon on (I'm in EST time) and I hope all of us fellow fans can meet up on Twitter or elsewhere to share the moments on Saturday especially. 

SDCC Quick Guide Watch:

TheOneRing.net

Our friends at TORn are covering this event "like many blankets". Follow their site and watch live at the link below. Remember their panel is on Thursday:

http://www.theonering.net/live/comiccon/hobbit/

May I say that I want all of the buttons they will have at Comic-Con, especially one, and I think you all can guess the one:

G4TV:

I have two G4 channels thanks to my Cable-TV provider (and the many hard earned bucks I pay for the privilege). Their SDCC coverage starts tomorrow, Thursday. Now I'm in the US, so I don't know if it is available elsewhere, or through other outlets, but you can all check it out on their Website:

http://www.g4tv.com/comic-con-2012/

And follow them on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/g4tv



SPIKE:

Another channel I have on my US Cable-TV. SPIKE will have "Comic-Con All Access Live" starting on July 13. You can all check out their Website to find out the particulars of their coverage:


http://www.spike.com/events/all-access-comic-con/

You can also follow Spike TV on Twitter:


https://twitter.com/spiketv


I should also mention that TORn, G4, and SPIKE are also on Facebook. Go to their sites for the information.


In my past experience the major Comic-Con panels are also eventually posted by various attendees on YouTube. I've watched panels from Being Human and Game of Thrones that way in the past. So if all else fails, and it won't believe me, you can watch it on YouTube eventually. (Yes, I am an ancient Geek Lite!).


In case you wondered, no, I have never been to Comic-Con.
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I have no doubt that Richard Armitage will be wonderful on Saturday, and I hope it's not all overwhelming to him. 

I do wonder what he thinks of all the Raining Thorins!?

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On a very sad note for RA fans this Comic-Con Eve:

http://memythoughtsandwhoknows.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/dear-cyber-bully/

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Let's have a fun Hobbit Comic-Con time and enjoy everyone.

From First Press Conference for The Hobbit

Richard Armitage as Thorin in The Hobbit: New EW.com Photo

To see the rest of the Entertainment Weekly Hobbit Gallery go to the link below:


http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20483133_20608420,00.html#21179608


Thank you Ricrar for the link. 

Update July 4, 2012:

King Thorin 

Thanks to RichardArmitageNet.com and Entertainment Weekly

Update 7/8/12:

Have I mentioned that I love TheOneRing.net!

The TORn staff analyze the Entertainment Weekly Photos (see link). Great post, beware of SPOILERS if you haven't read the book:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/07/08/58366-torn-staff-analyse-all-12-entertainment-weekly-photos/

A quote from the article that I agree with 100%

MrCere: Is it possible people still don’t get that this movie is about three people moving the action? Gandalf, Bilbo and Thorin are the center of this film. Let me go on record again and say that Richard Armitage is going to be a gigantic star when these two movies are over.