Elijah Wood recalled starting his first day filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring off with a bang -- or more specifically, a massive fart.
"The first day of filming; day one!" Wood said during an episode of Hot Ones, a YouTube series where celebrities eat spicy wings and casually talk about their latest projects. "The scene is, we are rolling down the hill after Merry and Pippin run into us, running away from Farmer Maggot's field, having stolen a bunch of vegetables. They bang into us. We roll down the hill... And I think it was like, take two. And I had a -- what is that, a concussion fart? A fart that is brought on by pressure."
The former hobbit said that when he farted, everyone burst out laughing, and it was "a hell of a way to start filming Lord of the Rings." This is not the first instance that Wood has described his impressive flatulence. In a 2017 Entertainment Weekly interview, Wood called it an "impact fart," as well as "the fart heard 'round the Shire."
Wood, whose latest project is the crime drama No Man of God, also touched on other urban legends related to The Lord of the Rings in the interview. He cast doubt on a rumor about Peter Jackson orchestrating 20,000 cricket fans to mimic the sounds of the Uruk-hai army, saying that even if the director had done such a thing, he would have likely used rugby fans instead.
Wood also described how the cast and crew of the trilogy ditched the traditional red carpet after parties after The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won 11 Academy Awards in 2002, opting for a more intimate event hosted by the famous fansite TheOneRing.net instead. Wood called the party "really nice," and the perfect way of celebrating the end of his Middle-Earth journey alongside hardcore fans.
Wood briefly reprised the role of Frodo Baggins for cameos in director Peter Jackson's The Hobbit prequels. He is not set to appear in Amazon Studio's upcoming The Lord of the Rings series, which takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay, The Lord of the Rings is currently filming and will premiere on Amazon Prime on Sept. 2, 2022.
Source: YouTube