Martin Freeman is my preciousss
Oct. 15th, 2010 12:26 pmI already posted about Martin Freeman having to turn down the role of Bilbo in The Hobbit, but here's a bit of a new interview from today's Telegraph:
"We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing things! Make you late for dinner!"Freeman says he turned down Bilbo “with a heavy heart”, but still hopes there might be a way of resurrecting the part, dates permitting.... But, then again, he’s also a famously unstarry actor who has spent most of his post-Office career eschewing the bright lights of LA. He has admitted being “freaked out” by his first trip to Hollywood six years ago.... [c]ould he really handle being the star of potentially the biggest film ever?
He mulls this for a second. “Well,” he says, “for a start, it wouldn’t be in Hollywood [New Zealand is the likely location]. And I think Peter gives Hollywood a fairly wide berth himself. So it wouldn’t be all that Hollywoody.
“And anyway, I certainly wouldn’t be stupid enough to say that I wouldn’t do anything Hollywoody.” He pauses. “It’s just that I’m more of an Englishman, really, than a Hollywood man.”
Oh, MARTIN. So undeniably snuggly and cuddly, yet irresistibly fuckable. What do we do with you?