So it's an amazing thing that Tolkien created this character that can provide that to us. But one thing is immutable is just his faithfulness. So I wonder as I come into this how I'll experience Sam differently this time from before. The youngest one's about to finish high school. I come to these books now as a different entity. So everything I've experienced from Lord of the Rings has been from Sam's point of view. So from the second I heard of the existence of these things, I heard the name Lord of the Rings and the character of Sam. And I went in there, she said I was going to audition for Sam. It's The Hobbit." I'm like, "What?" So that's bad. She's like, "It's the Lord of the Rings trilogy." I'm like, "What's that?" She goes, " The Hobbit. I didn't even know what Lord of the Rings was when my agent called me. I made a determination with the members of the book club to try and experience it the best I can not from Sam's point of view. So we switched from the book I was going to do to Lord of the Rings. The publisher of Lord of the Rings granted us the right to use it just a week ago. We just finished my first one, which is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. So is a new platform that has book clubs, and I have a book club. Did he put it on to hide from the orcs? I don't think he did. So yesterday, 20 years and the day after the movies I realized, it's the first time that it occurred to me that he didn't put the Ring on. He goes up to the Tower of Cirith Ungol, he kills Shagrat, and then Frodo wants the Ring back. ![]() When Shelob stabs Frodo, and Sam thinks he's dead, Sam takes the Ring. ![]() I mean, just in this series of interviews I've been doing, I talked to one person about the fact that Sam is a Ring-Bearer. But how do you feel about him now at this point in your life, as opposed to when you were playing him for the first time? Has your perspective on the character changed in the time since then?ĪSTIN: Well, my depth of understanding him changes all the time. Miraculously, right? Looking back on the movie, for you especially, people associate with you with Sam. ![]() Collider: It's such a pleasure to be talking with you, what with Fellowship having its anniversary this weekend and everything.
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