[Water Lily]

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The British film industry isn't in its best days. The FilmFour has closed and there aren’t big projects like this one being shot there. Do you think of moving to LA? Which are your plans?

DM: I've been living there for a year. I think that the British film industry never had a good moment. There isn’t money there. Where there is, it comes from the USA. But this is because there isn't a city that lives from movies, like LA. London is a very rich city in terms of theaters. People from all over the world go there pursuing a career in the British stage.


Would you like to try something in the West End?

DM: We were invited to do a play in England next summer. But we ended up finding that one of the projects that we were interested is already being made. But the most important thing is that we want to continue working together. We were trying to convince Elijah last night to try something in the theater. If only he found something really worth it, Billy and I could give him the support he needs and have fun at the same time.


Usually, when artists stay together a lot of time, often are quarrels and discussions. Why it worked so well in LOTR?

BB: We got lucky, because in the moment we've met we got well and became friends. Stay with the rest of the cast was always pretty easy. It was hard when we had to split and each one went shooting in a different place. Even more weird was when Dom and I had to split, in the third movie.

DM: That can influence on your acting. Especially when you're making a scene where you have to show how much you miss someone. There's a scene in ROTK where I'm talking to Aragorn about Pippin and where he had gone. And Aragorn says "He's going to do what has to be done, just like you have to do your work." And during the whole scene I was thinking that he was in the South. But we kept calling each other the whole time.


This link between you started on the set?


BB: Yes. We truly became good friends. All that was said in the press about our friendship wasn't just publicity. We used to go out all the time to surf and other things.


Besides scuba diving, what else you did there?

DM: Surf, snowboard, bungee-jump, rafting, we watched a lot of movies, played videogames, listened to a lot of music, went to concerts, used to hang out in the pool.

BB: We had a lot of fun!!