Name: Richard Armitage on The Marilyn Denis Show
Uploaded: 2014-08-14T07:03:49.000Z
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The countdown to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is on

and today we get a chance to talk with one of the film's stars

Please welcome, it's our honour to say hello to

You'll have to dip all Canadian talk show hosts

The guy at immigration gave me a smile and

said hello like I was a human being so I'm very happy

First of all, how do you play a dwarf at 6'2"?

That was my question when I went in to meet Peter

I couldn't quite work out why I was there

But they'd written a scene for the character

which really encompassed everything he was

And I looked at a lot of the paintings by Alan Lee and John Howe

I realized what they were doing with this character

We have massive boots and a big muscle suit, prosthetics

And then Peter works his magic on the computer

I don't use that word lightly but he really is

I hear a lot of comments he has about you

And you're on this show and you're going to forget

I saw Christmas trees and I was like, "Yes, of course"

So he comes into this story with a bit of

And there was a danger of him being a cantankerous bad-tempered dwarf

I actually became inspired by Peter Jackson himself

because he leads his team with such dignity

and a quiet authority and people come back and work with him

so I really took that as something I'd like to bring to Thorin

I didn't want to command respect but I wanted to earn loyalty

Was that a wolf? Are there wolves out there?

Who did you tell about your quest beyond your kin?

And that was my own beard as well which I'm very proud of

You were the only cast member that grew your own beard, right?

I started with a fake beard and then we had a break

so I actually realized I had time to grow something very similar

What was strange is that my own beard came through with exactly

the same grey of the beard that they created

So you're walking the streets of wherever you live with this beard

People are going, "Whatever happened to him?"

There's something not right with him, right?

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