For many people, Christmas is the ideal time to watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy again under the Christmas tree and to accompany Frodo on his adventurous journey to Mount Doom (for example tonight on ProSieben). An actor whose fate many years ago was to painfully fail in his bid to play Frodo is Jake Gyllenhaal.
The ultimate Lord of the Rings rejection: Peter Jackson showed Jake Gyllenhaal the door as Frodo
In the early 2000s, Jake Gyllenhaal was still at the beginning of his career without having a real hit film to look back on. Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring could have been his big break in 2001. His appearance recommended the current star of films like Nightcrawler, Prisoners and Donnie Darko as a credible hobbit in the eyes of his agents. Despite it His audition with director Peter Jackson failed disastrously.
A few years ago, Jake Gyllenhaal revealed his failed casting for the famous Lord of the Rings role on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon:
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I remember during casting there were a lot of instructions but no lines of dialogue. I should just find the ring […]I didn’t quite understand it. I just walked over, picked up the ring and then asked, ‘Was that good?’ […] And Peter Jackson [vergrub nur den Kopf in den Händen]. The blame for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Lord of the Rings failure also lies with his agents. Then I had to do it with text and everyone had a British accent, but I didn’t get one for that. And [Peter Jackson] literally turned to me and said: ‘You are the worst actor I have ever seen. Did anyone tell you to have an acceptance?’ And I said, ‘No!’ and he was like, ‘Fire your agents!’
Of course, this advice from the Lord of the Rings director didn’t help Gyllenhaal become a hobbit after all. The part of Frodo ultimately went to Elijah Wood. If we think about the fact that stars like Nicolas Cage narrowly missed out on Aragorn, the disappointment about the rejection is perhaps less serious.
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