Elijah Wood kicking the hobbit – The Indipendent (Inglese)
After ‘Lord of the Rings’, Elijah Wood could have taken the starry Hollywood route. But not this blue-eyed boy. He tells Craig McLean about his plans to launch a radio station, set up a record label, produce films… and even find time for some acting
Deploying his best vernacular British English, and puffing animatedly on one of his funny clove cigarettes, Elijah Wood pronounces himself “gutted”. He’s just found out that the happening (but still fairly underground) Glasgow band Sons & Daughters are playing a semi-secret show in Edinburgh at 7pm. “And I have to go to a premiere at 7.30,” he grumbles, good naturedly. No matter that the premiere is, effectively, in his honour, for the British football hooligan melodrama Green Street in which he has the lead role. This fresh-faced, casually crumpled actor is also less than chuffed to find out that he’s missing an intimate show from one of the summer’s hottest tickets, The Magic Numbers, the following evening.
“This festival is amazing. I’ve wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is torture.” Wood shakes his head and blows ruminative smoke at the window of the hotel suite, his surreally luminous pale-blue eyes gazing out at the castle plonked in the middle of the city centre. The bands will have to wait.
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