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  • Hi, I'm Elijah Wood and I'm doing the wired auto complete interview.

  • Why is Elijah Wood hot?

  • What?

  • I didn't know that I was and I don't know how to answer that question but thanks, my parents have Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood met yes when we were doing um A D.

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  • For one of the Lord of the Rings films and they were shooting prisoner of Azkaban, the third harry potter film and we got to go visit the set.

  • I met him then but I don't know that I've met him since but I certainly get asked if I am him a lot, which I find really amusing and it doesn't bother me at all.

  • Seriously Does Elijah Wood play Spider man in the movie.

  • I mean I played the video game, it's good.

  • How did they make Elijah Wood small in Lord of the Rings?

  • I'm assuming it was a variety of different things.

  • So there'd be an entire sequence that would be shot without us and then we would with a motion control camera more often than not, we would then go into a blue screen unit and sort of fit ourselves into that same shot.

  • We'd be comped in those one way.

  • We also had scale doubles.

  • People who were about the height of Hobbits that would wear our outfits and also masks of our face, which was pretty disturbing.

  • They were incredible and they did a lot of our work for a lot of the wide stuff.

  • Occasionally there was forced perspective that was used.

  • So a good example of that would be frodo and Gandalf on the cart in bag end in the first film photo jumps into the cart and they're sitting side by side.

  • I was actually sitting slightly behind Ian Mckellen and Ian Mckellen was sat slightly ahead of us and the camera was placed in such a way that it looked like we were sitting side by side with him taller than I, You look at the monitor and we were sitting next to each other and he was giant, That was small, which was pretty magical.

  • It's a super old fashioned trick that totally works now.

  • And then there was like one sequence that we ended up abandoning this technology but they made these sort of big people on stilts but in like large human outfits with like articulated fake hands and arms, we only used it once.

  • It proved to be effective in the background.

  • If you see when they're trying to check into the prancing pony under the name Underhill, you see a few people walk by, those are these sort of like people on stilts and giant outfits essentially and they ended up abandoning that.

  • They didn't use it as much because it wasn't super practical.

  • Anyway.

  • Long answer multiple tools in that particular tool box.

  • Did Ian Mckellen and Elijah wood film scenes together.

  • Yes, we shot all of our scenes together.

  • So any time that the hobbits were with anyone that were larger than them, we would always be together.

  • It's just occasionally we would not be able to look each other in the eye like you would normally look sometimes we'd be on our knees to look small and we could interact.

  • But we were always in scenes together.

  • It's just in terms of how we would be placed in front of the camera to appear small or large.

  • What was Elijah Wood's first movie?

  • It was a tiny tiny role in Back to the Future to there is a scene in the cafe eighties and there are two kids at the back of the cafe eighties trying to play this like gun slinger game with a light gun.

  • Michael J Fox comes up and explains it to them and then like shoots a bunch of things and does really well at the game and the kids make fun of him because they're like, this is what you have to use your hands.

  • Anyway, that was the first thing I ever did.

  • What does Elijah would look like now, what nationality is Elijah Wood boring american.

  • I mean there's heritage that goes way back, but my nationality is us.

  • There's like a little bit of danish in me, a little bit of english.

  • But that goes way back.

  • What does Elijah would eat?

  • That's a difficult question to answer.

  • I could say a lot of different things.

  • Pizza is probably my favorite food, my girlfriend and I, we eat a fair amount of pizza become, it's obsessive.

  • I also really love frozen pizza.

  • It's a little bit of a thing.

  • I'm going to like new supermarkets you've never been to and seeing new brands of frozen pizza that you've never seen before.

  • You like got to give that a go.

  • There's certain frozen pizza brands that I won't with.

  • But man, I love a good frozen pizza, but did Elijah Wood keep from rings, I have the one ring, I have a pair of latex hobbit feet, they're in good shape Sting the Sword, have a sleep from, from the films as well.

  • Can Elijah would sing, I'm not tone deaf but I don't think I can sing very well.

  • I'm always pretty shy to sing karaoke and needs a little lubrication in order to get the confidence to do it.

  • I don't know, I've been told I can sing, I don't have a great deal of confidence in it.

  • I did actually audition for Mulan rouge, so I took singing lessons for that and the audition consisted of me singing two songs.

  • If there's a videotape of that, it's got to be pretty embarrassing.

  • Oh man.

  • Elijah Wood can and May.

  • That's cool.

  • That's actually really old reference if that's what it is.

  • The first large role that I had in the film was a movie called Avalon, I was eight years old and there's a whole sequence where the character that I played can't distinguish the difference between can and May and he ends up like going to the principal's office because of it or gets like sent out of class because he just can't understand the difference so I can and I may maybe I can can Elijah wood playing the piano.

  • I took lessons when I was young.

  • Like a lot of kids do instead of reading the music and I'd play from memory Which is cool you know a good thing sort of but it's a really bad habit cause I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily remember everything correctly.

  • I think I was like 13 or 14 I quit and then I ended up having to have like a crash course in playing piano for a movie called Grand Piano because the character that I played was an incredible pianist.

  • I could play a little bit but not to anywhere that degree.

  • I didn't walk out of that knowing how to play any better necessarily.

  • But I got really good at fitting my hands in the right place at the right time.

  • It was fun.

  • It was really really scary.

  • Can't Elijah would drive a stick shift.

  • I mean I've done it twice for work but they were crash courses like you've got to do this now for this scene.

  • I mean the last time I did it I almost went out of gear and then very intensely put my foot on the accelerator and I managed to successfully not hit anything and stopped.

  • I need to take lessons because there's some really great cars that only drive stick and I can't drive them.

  • Does Elijah Wood have a personal life?

  • Well of course I do.

  • I mean I'm a record collector I.

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  • From time to time watching movies.

  • My girlfriend and I we had all of these movies that we've never seen in this sort of collective shame list.

  • Pretty significant films like I've never seen a curious our film.

  • So we thought well let's put it together a film festival for us to catch up on these movies will invite friends.

  • We did.

  • That was really fun.

  • Does Elijah Wood age?

  • Yeah I do um I can ask this question a lot.

  • I definitely age.

  • I have gray hair.

  • Maybe not as many wrinkles as one would have at 39.

  • I don't know it's all relative.

  • Does Elijah Wood do magic tricks.

  • I used to when I was a kid I learned a couple of card tricks that were relatively fun and some somewhat easy but I've since forgotten them.

  • So now I don't do any magic tricks.

  • Does Elijah would have di chromatic eyes?

  • No no they're both blue.

  • Both the same shade of blue I think.

  • Does Elijah would wear wigs in life?

  • No for work occasionally.

  • Okay is Elijah Wood a twin.

  • No and not that I know of.

  • Maybe there's like an unknown twin or a doppelganger out there is Elijah Wood A D.

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  • Yeah I started sort of casually doing it way back in the Lord of the rings days and then officially sort of jumped into um two records about, I guess 10 years ago, maybe a little bit less?

  • The thing about vinyl?

  • That's so exciting is that it is a physical object so things can go wrong and you have to be at the ready to fix that problem sonically.

  • And so you're always on your toes.

  • There's nothing lazy about, it's very active and I just love that.

  • It's really fun.

  • Is Elijah wood, vegan.

  • No man, so sorry, I don't mean to be offensive to any vegans.

  • I love food too much.

  • But yeah, veganism is intense.

  • I mean you can't eat honey for instance, honey is delicious.

  • Is Elijah wood.

  • Left handed.

  • No, I'm not left handed.

  • I'm right handed.

  • Which is a good thing because I did fall on this particular hand and it was out of commission for about three months.

  • So that would have been a bummer if I was left handed is Elijah wood related to Evan Rachel wood.

  • I don't think we are related, but we could be related as far back to England.

  • My heritage goes back to England and Ireland and there's a good chance that hers could go back there as well, in which case distantly we could be.

  • You never know Elijah wood is stealing your socks.

  • Is that really something that someone wrote on google?

  • God, how do they know that?

  • I was so discreet, jesus, is this the last board not the last board?

  • Where is Elijah Wood today?

  • Like right now I'm I'm doing this so I'm here today.

  • But when you, when you watch this I won't be here, I'll be somewhere else.

  • I can't answer that question for you contextually based on where you are watching this now, I could be anywhere.

  • I don't know man.

  • Where did Elijah would grow up?

  • I grew up in California.

  • I was born in Iowa and moved to Los Angeles when I was seven.

  • I've lived here ever since.

  • Where did Elijah would go to college?

  • I didn't go to college.

  • My university time was taken up in middle Earth, it was four years of my life was taken up making those films.

  • I also don't know that I would have gone to university because I didn't graduate high school, didn't even get the G e D which I often did things to do.

  • Like maybe I should just do this so I can get, I can graduate and I didn't do it.

  • That is not a good idea though.

  • Like graduate high school, don't don't follow in my footsteps graduate please.

  • Where does Elijah Wood live?

  • I live in southern California and occasionally I live in austin texas.

  • Okay, who does Elijah Wood look like apparently a lot like Daniel Radcliffe and occasionally like Tobey Maguire, Who are Elijah Wood's parents?

  • My mom's name is Deborah and my dad's name is Warren, that's that, that's not.

  • Who is Elijah Wood in Sin city, I play kevin in Sin City.

  • Who is a mute, very religiously fanatical in a kind of questionable way.

  • Cannibal who is Elijah Wood married to?

  • I'm not married yet one day.

  • Who did Elijah Wood voice in God of War?

  • I'd completely forgotten.

  • I did a voice with that apparently credos brother demos and I remember I was killed and I get my head ripped off.

  • I had to scream.

  • That was, yeah, I vaguely remember that.

  • It was so long ago.

  • That's it.

Hi, I'm Elijah Wood and I'm doing the wired auto complete interview.

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