TRL presenter: C = Carlson Daly

[huge cheering]
C: Alight animals shut the hell up will ya! You guys are the worst, our guests just arrived!
Elijah: My god...
C: Hi guys, nice to see you...
[more cheering]
Elijah: My my...
C: Happy holidays Elijah, how are you?
Elijah: Thank you! Very well, very well.
C: I see you all the time now, the press for this movie, Lord Of The Rings, it's out the 19th, is it overwhelming, its got to be overwhelming.
Elijah: It is overwhelming.
C: Are you sick of talking about it? I mean we love to hear what you have got to say about the movie but it must drive you nuts!
Elijah: Kind of! I think I've synopsised the film a million times, so...
Liv: We've had like two weeks press so it's like all over the place...
Elijah: But we love the film, so in that way it's easy to talk about.
C: Ok well we're amongst friends, so lets break it down a little bit. People are treating this like the Star Wars trilogy. You shot all 3 movies at once, right?
Elijah: Yeah.
C: Did it feel like you were shooting 3 separate movies or did it feel like one giant epic?
Liv: It was kind of like one giant movie because we shot totally out of sequence, so sometimes on one day we would shoot some of the 1st movie and some of the 3rd movie it was just kind of...
Elijah: Out of control.
C: How long did it take? Each movies going to be released...?
Elijah: Every year. It took 16 months. I lived in New Zealand for 16 months, so... It was as much of a journey making the films as it was, you know... In some ways I think it mirrored that of the book, which was amazing.
C: Now I'm like the only idiot who has never read the trilogy or the hobbit, like I have no idea! I cheated on all the high school red cliff notes.
[laughter]
Elijah: Have you seen the film?
C: I've seen nothing!
Elijah: Ok.
Liv: That's the good thing about the movie, you can go see the movie not having read the book and just be very happy and get everything...
C: Is there any way to give the audience like a synopsis...
Elijah: A taste, of what it's about.
C: ...yeah, of what's going on here.
Elijah: Basically it's about Middle Earth, which is a fictional place, that is in peril because the one ring, Sauron's ring – the kind of evil dark lord - is trying to get the ring back… Basically it's about Frodo, my character, who takes the ring, and the fellowship of nine take the ring to Mordor to destroy the ring and save Middle Earth... [laughs] I think that's it!
Liv: This most amazing small hobbit creature, like the smallest of all creatures is the only one that can really handle this.
C: How was New Zealand? Cos that's an awfully long time to spend there.
Liv: Beautiful, really beautiful...
Elijah: Beautiful.
C: Does the water in the toilet go [down] the other way?
Elijah: It does, it does.
C: That's the only question I wanted to ask them... I have the entire cast here and I care about stupid crap like that.
[laughter]
C: Did you go nuts? Did you miss like the states, music and the Simpsons or anything?
Elijah: I missed Mexican food, there was no Mexican food.
C: Nothing? No burritos in New Zealand?
Elijah: They did but they were terrible, sorry...
C: Did you eat roo? Did they have kangaroo?
Elijah: No! That's Australia, a hop, skip and a jump away...
C: I just wanted to ask the phrase 'did you eat roo?'
[laughter]
Elijah: A lot of lamb though, lamb and deer.
C: Alright, fair enough... The whole cast is here and it's like all guys!
Liv: Yeah, all guys...
C: Was it like a boys club?
Liv: Yeah it was really cute, they're just so nice to me I'm spoilt rotten!
Audience goes 'awww' and Elijah puts his head on Liv's shoulder (shows how tiny he is!)
C: Oh that's nice. OK put your hands together for the rest of the cast of LOTR, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom and Sean Astin!

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