Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Woodis an American actor, film producer and DJ. He made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II. Landing a succession of larger roles, he was critically acclaimed as a child actor by age 9, being nominated for several Young Artist Awards. As a child, he starred in the films Radio Flyer, The Good Son, North, and Flipper...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth28 January 1981
CityCedar Rapids, IA
CountryUnited States of America
It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.
I think there were a few things that really interested me. One was that I didn't know a lot about hooligan culture. I'd heard of football violence but I didn't quite understand how intense it really is, how organized it is, and more importantly, how these people aren't necessarily criminals or thugs in their daily life. They almost have this sort of double life. They're people with families and some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me. And also the opportunity of being able to take a character from that kind of relatively innocent place to essentially making him a hooligan was very attractive to me. To explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not really explored in film before just as an actor was an interesting challenge.
I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.
I'm not a star!!! A star is notthing but a ball of gas!!!
Not just a benchmark in my career, but a benchmark in my life,
I'm gonna keep it in the fridge. You know. Its a food item.
I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up.
That's all right. You can call me Frodo. Go on, Dave, it's okay.
You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation,
This festival is amazing. I've wanted to come here for so long, and to be here for just a night is torture.
The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
Of all the films I've worked on, that is among my favorites. It's an incredibly beautiful film. (Levinson) really captures what it means to be in a family and the ups and downs of that. He maps out beautifully how families moved from Eastern Europe to the United States and how they got broken up by the modern age.
But everybody there knew 'Lord of the Rings,' ... It's really amazing.