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Интервью с Билли и Домиником:

Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, you played very short hobbits. How did they handle the height thing?

Boyd: Lots of different ways. ... Like the scenes on the balcony on Minas Tirith, I was just on my knees. And [when] you saw Gandalf in the background, they had this really tall guy called Paul. And he would dress [as] Gandalf or Aragorn. ... They had costumes for all the characters, including the women. Sometimes he'd be dressed as Arwen. Really scary, but slightly arousing.

Monaghan: I did some stuff on a huge horse—which is called the Phony Pony, which is an oversized horse—with an oversized Miranda [Otto as Eowyn], which was Tall Paul. He was dressed as Miranda. ... Very arousing. ... Do you remember his legs? Attack of the 50-foot woman.

Billy, did you have any idea that you would be singing in this?

Boyd: No, no idea. That wasn't in the script. ... I loved it. I love to sing, and it's such a big part of Tolkien's books and such a big part of the hobbits. ... [Jackson] wanted a serious song from a hobbit in this great Hall of Man, where he just wants to go home, you know? So he asked me to write something, and I wrote that melody to one of Tolkien's poems about missing your home. And I wanted it to sound old, like it's from a different generation, not from Pippin's generation, like a song that his grandfather would sing. ... I wrote this melody, and Pete and Fran and [co-writer] Philippa [Boyens] liked it, and yeah, it's in the film.

Can you guys talk about your last day of shooting?

Boyd: My very, very last shot ... was killing the orc that's about to kill Gandalf. I thought, that's a great shot to have shot. So the last shot ... was kind of looking at my sword with the blood on it, and I thought, "That's great."


Did you get all emotional at the end of that day's shoot?

Boyd: I ran around and kissed everybody. Remember that? Yeah, I was really emotional. It kind of hit me quite hard, actually, because I didn't think it would.

What was your present?

Boyd: I got my sword that I just stabbed the orc with. My last clapper board. Some feet.

Monaghan: [My last scene] was actually quite boring. Um, going through the Oliphant and slicing the [legs] with [a sword]. Which is blue screen. There was no one there. Everyone else was on Stage A, and I was on like Stage like D with Miranda. And we finished it and then I walked over to Stage A and saw Pete and Fran, and they knew that I'd wrapped. And we waited for Elijah to get wrapped. Elijah and I and Andy Serkis all wrapped on the same day. So when we finished, we went into a huge stage, and they showed gag reel footage of myself and Elijah and Andy messing up our lines, and then they gave out, I got my sword and my clapper board and my feet, just like Billy, and they gave you the opportunity to try an impossible task of summing up four years of your life in front of all these people.

Did you get emotional too?

Monaghan: Yeah, I did actually. Actually I nearly started crying when I was speaking, and then we all went out to a bar and got drunk.

During the length of the shoot, at least judging from the extended DVD, was working with the Treebeard animatronic the toughest part of the shot?

Boyd: It was hell. My arse is still sore. It was the most uncomfortable thing in the world, wasn't it? [The seat] really crushed your knackers.

Monaghan: It was pretty dodgy, yeah.

Are you guys ever worried about being considered a matched set?

Monaghan: I was at a DVD award show last night for picking up The Two Towers best movie award. Someone came over to me with a photo of Billy and said, "Can you sign that?"

Boyd: And we still get it. A journalist came up to me in a junket this year ... a TV journalist, and said, "What was it like working with Miranda Otto?" And I was like, "I didn't have any scenes with Miranda." ... I said, "I think you think I'm Dom." Unbelievable.

Monaghan: I had someone come over to me last night again and say, "Congratulations on Master and Commander [in which Boyd plays a sailor]. I enjoyed it." I enjoyed it as well.