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good news. Andy Circus interview
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about his upcoming Lord of the Rings
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movie. Andy Circus defends lack of
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diversity in Lord of the Rings cast.
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Whoa. What? This a summary? And lack of
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diversity for a hunt for Gollum. Tolken
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himself was influenced by a lot of Norse
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mythology. There's a lot of that
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feeling. The Shire feels very white. You
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know, they're not very concerned with
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what goes on beyond the borders of the
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Shire, but they do know that they don't
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want people coming in. Yes, there have
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been criticisms, he says, acknowledging
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arguments for now almost a quarter of a
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century old. This particular film
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somewhat acknowledges that, but I don't
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think that we'll be doing politically
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correct just casting for the sake of
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casting and ticking boxes version of the
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film. So, it's only where it's relevant
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basically. Thank god people are finally
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>> I feel like I've been an elf my whole
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life, so it feels very validating
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>> to go and actually be able to do it as a
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job. I'm a huge fan of Lord of the
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Rings. I'm a huge fan of Andy. And so I
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think just being able to be a part of
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this world and to inhabit this character
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is is a dream come true.
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>> Mhm. This is the teaser. This is the
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>> Here we go onto the road cap stage for
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>> All right. Thank you everyone standing
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>> Jesus just turned it off.
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>> The entire Lord of the Rings team who
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worked on the originals are reassembled
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for a start. It will feel like a middle
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proper Middle Earth film. There's no
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question. A lot of the film making
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techniques hearken back to the first
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trilogy. So I think it'll be a great
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marriage of a new story and an intimate
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story within the lore and world of the
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Middle Earth that we all love.
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>> That's insane. I didn't know that they
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had all those people coming in. Is this
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the Oh my god, that's him from back
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>> He was almost cast from the second that
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>> Oh my god, he's so good. And it was
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really in that audition that I came to
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realize something that it never really
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occurred to me and that the voice and
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the facial expressions and the energy uh
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>> His approach was so intense and he gave
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absolutely everything every day and
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physically. Yeah, some of these people
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put so much work and time and effort
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into this. It's insane. I think it's
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awesome, man. Guardian already hates the
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idea of this movie, so it has a
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possibility of being good. That's always
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a good sign. Previous Lord of the Rings
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film made before colorblind casting
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became common. I don't think they're
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doing colorblind casting because every
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single time you never have any of the
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universally evil or bad characters that
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are being race swapped. It's always the
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morally good, universally good
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characters. I can very clearly see that
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you are trying to change and give
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ownership of these different myths and
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these stories. It's about ancient
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Europe. Like that's what it's about.
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There weren't any black people there.
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That's just the way it is. I think that
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everybody knows that that's what's
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happening. And I think that's the reason
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why people have been so far against
