Empire UK

018 NOVEMBER^2015 THI ED

PIECE OF

DIRECTION

LOCATION

COSTUME

AUDITION

MOMENT

I loved the costumes in Set Fire To The Stars

which is set in 1950s New York. There’s

something so transportive about period

costumes. I really enjoyed wearing braces

and bow ties every day.

Lord Of The Rings. I decided

to do my own tape. We shot it

in my house and in the woods

Peter Jackson later said

“I could tell that you were

really passionate about it.”

That validation was it for me

Nothing really

stands up against

New Zealand.

Drive along the

west coast from

near Nelson

in the South

Island along

Queenstown. You

pass a glacier.

Incredible but...

Kindergarten Cop. Ivan

Reitman’s comment was

“You were acting.” For

a nine-year-old that

was the worst thing you

could say. It profoundly

bummed me out.

... On Fellowship

there was a

scene where

we were in

effectively a

mountain run-off

lake. It brought

my core body

temperature

down. I turned

a shade of blue.

On The Faculty all the clothes were provided

by Tommy Hilfiger. I had never experienced

that before. It didn’t really fucking matter but

I remember being crestfallen. “We’re product

placement in this movie!”

On The Ice Storm Ang Lee didn’t speak

great English at the time. His directions

were not specific but I remember getting

more of a sense of what he wanted.

I loved it. It gave me enough to have

a sense of where I needed to go.

I’ve had directions where it’s been “What

the fuck is he talking about?” Luckily I’ve

not worked with any complete dunces!CH

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BLU-RAY DVD AND DIGITAL.

On Wilfred season one I was walking to
lunchand it hit me that whether it’s DJing or
starting a production company or working on
this show it had all come together. “Oh fuck
I’m doingeverything.” I couldn’t have been
more humbled. I know I’ll never forget that.

I don’t dwell on bad moments. Bad things

happen and I move beyond them. I could

look at periods of time where I wasn’t

working as solidly but they oddly were

perfectly timed to allow me the time to

work on myself as a person.

BEST OF TIMES/ WORST OF TIMES

ELIJAH WOOD

ELIJAH WOOD TALKS BAD AUDITIONS GLACIERS AND TURNING BLUE

After he wrote them into The Bad

Education Movie Jack Whitehall

became the reluctant owner of

some Rolf Harris paintings.

Thing we did not expect to fi nd in

Sam Mendes’ offi ce? This pic

of Vinnie Jones squeezing

Gazza’s bollocks.

Before breaking out as an actor

Danny Huston co-directed

1985’s Santa Claus: The Making

Of The Movie.

Sticking with a football theme

the new Transporter Ed

Skrein is a huge fan of

Championship Manager.