Q: Now that you're not getting any roles in any Lucas films, what kind of projects are you looking at now?
Monaghan: Hopefully stuff that isn't hobbity. The main stuff that I've been offered has been fantasy, pixie, goblin kind of parts. I just want to play a horrible guy. A serial killer, or a psycho. I'm intrigued in work that I'll never be pigeonholed. In acting if you can be stretched and challenged and do something that you find difficult you'll keep growing. After playing Merry, which there were difficult things about him, I would like to play someone different, a nasty and evil character. Someone a bit more hard hitting. I've been reading scripts all year and I haven't seen anything that has shouted out for me to do it. I'm in a position where I'm financially secure enough to wait, and I realize that the next couple of choices I make are going to inform on how I will be taken as an actor. I just have to wait.
Boyd: Yeah, I've been looking. I just finished, three weeks ago, working on Peter Weir's movie, Far Side of the World, down in Mexico. It's what Dom was talking about. It happened that I was offered this part, which was completely different than Pippin, and it felt like it was going to be a really exciting thing, which it was. I play this sailor. The helmsman of the ship in the Napoleonic War. I was down in Mexico five or six months doing it. Peter Weir was incredible. Russell Crowe is in it.
Q: It's part of the myth of the films at this point that you guys all bonded on the set. Eighteen months together, you became the Fellowship, the tattoos, the whole thing. Is that going to make it difficult on other projects, that you were on the perfect set, now you're on something not quite as tight?
Monaghan: [to Boyd] What's the difference between Mexico and New Zealand?
Boyd: You speak Spanish. But you know, it's a year and a half, it just gives you that time. It's kind of different, but every job always is.
Q: Current events seem to have really caught up to this movie. Do you think was by accident, or did Peter tweak the material?
Boyd: I think it was by accident. Like the books, I think the reason it rings true is that you take any time in history when there is a war about to start it'll ring true. The big point is that people don't seem to learn through history. Lessons are never learned. That's what Treebeard is saying. It's all a cycle and evil will come back again. Human society always seems to be on the lip of war.
Q: You've been doing a week of interviews for this movie. What are people NOT asking you that you want to talk about?
Monaghan: How can you be such a great actor? I don't understand it.
Boyd: [to Monaghan] Is your talent CG?
Q: Maybe you guys should interview each other!
Monaghan: We've done that a few times. I think something that people have asked about but is something that Billy and I are keen about talking about - that's very ungood English.
Boyd: Three abouts!
Monaghan: Talking about is this environmental issue that is brought up in The Two Towers. Treebeard, the person we hang around with, actively helps the humans in their plight. I was speaking to someone I had been hanging about with in LA, who works for Greenpeace, told me that an area the size of 11 soccer pitches of rainforest are destroyed every day. And they don't come back. Tolkien wrote about this in the 1940s. This is a ticking clock. Think about the whole Mother Nature aspect - the forests are the lungs of the world. Regardless of whether we go to war or not in the search of oil and all that crap, if we don't address what's happening with the world's forests there won't be a world to come back to. It's crazy that what's happening with all the huge governments in the world is that they aren't interested because it isn't about money. If we don't do something we're all going to die anyway because there won't be any air to breathe. We hope that gets picked up by the world's media and we can get behind a big tree planting program or something to bring to the young people the fact that the forests are disappearing. Some of the most amazing flora and fauna that will never come back, that could cure some diseases. It's depressing.
Q: What do you feel like your responsibility is as actors and celebrities?
Boyd: I don't think we have a responsibility except as individuals. We don't have any more responsibility than anyone else. But as someone like John Lennon said, well I'm going to get in the paper anyway, I might as well talk about something. So I suppose we have the chance - if you want to write about it if we talk about it - but I think that's the thing, if we're going to take up media space, might as well talk about something that's worthwhile.
Q: And if you don't have more responsibility than anyone else you could add that everyone has some responsibility.
Boyd: Exactly. We're all in this together. And if anything in the Two Towers Merry and Pippin realize that they can do something.
Monaghan: Small individuals can do something. As Billy said, we can talk about it but it's up to you to print it and it's up to people to do something about it. There's a thing that goes on that as actors we're very lucky people, we get to travel the world and do things that we enjoy. To go along with that we should address some of these issues. After hanging out with these people in LA and talking about the environment and nature, which is something that I've always been turned on to anyway, would just like to get behind some planting of trees.
Q: Is there something you are particularly interested in right now?
Monaghan: I don't know if we can talk about it but there's a company called Future Forests that are keen to try to get companies behind this carbon neutral project, which a few bands - the new Coldplay album, the new Atomic Kitten album, the new U2 album I think - are going carbon neutral. Which means they find out how much carbon they burned making the album and they plant trees to offset that. I would like that to come to the film industry. Because you would then have forests in the world that were sponsored by different film companies that you could go to. You could walk around Mirkwood, you could walk around the Shire, and it would represent what we have done during this period.
By Devin Faraci - Chud.com (Cinematic Happenings Under Development) | December 17th, 2002
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