They couldn't put enough makeup on Elijah Wood to make him look remotely like Iggy Pop. Some wise-cracker suggested casting Robert Downey Jr. in the part (maybe because Robert Downey can and will wear so much makeup, they might stand half a chance of getting a remote likeness...
...and I mean, it would have to be an utterly REMOTE likeness.
But as per angelic Elijah Wood...???
Pull the other leg, man ... it has bells on.
Speaking of Elijah Wood, there's a cute little piece running on Softpedia:
Actor Elijah Wood, aka Frodo from "Lord on The Rings" trilogy confessed he is the subject of a gay site, made by some online jokers.
During a TV show he was invited, Elija told the host that some pranksters have started a website named elijahwoodisveryverygay, where they present fake photos with him that are 'proving' the 'Lord Of The Rings' star is homosexual.
He told US chat show host Conan O'Brien: "There's one that's called elijahwoodisveryverygay, which is actually a personal favorite of mine, it's absolutely hilarious.
"It's this kind of joke website that maintains that they have proof that I am very, very gay in various photographs - photographic evidence of me holding hands with a male".
The actor also revealed he was approached many times by fans who wanted to give him "fake" pictures of himself in compromising situations with his male co-stars.
He explained: "They want to create moments that they didn't get to see in the film, of these characters in sexual congress.
I was actually at a film festival once and this fan came up with a gift, I open the gift in front of all these people that I'm talking to and it happens to be a photo from one of these websites of me and Dominic Monaghan making sweet love".
Now, that wasn't a nice thing to do to the actor! (However ... I've seen photos (and they are not faked; they're on one of the leading PR image sites, where the dopyright owners charge an arm and a leg for reproduction royalties ... fake photos don't sit on those sites) of Dominic Monaghan frenching -- or getting frenched by?? -- Viggo. So ... who knows where imagination and wishful thinking ends, and where the truth begins?! But I really do think fans ought to have more sense and more manners than to hand the actor fake photos -- called digital maniupulations -- in public ... or anywhere else, for that matter. Guys -- get real here. Nuff said.)
Elijah Wood signed a broadsheet with a Good Luck, for my Novel The Jade Owl.
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Greetings from Italy,good luck
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Actually, Elijah is supposed to portray Iggy during the early era of The Stooges, so not a lot of make-up would be needed. If anything, a lot of workouts. But there's a likeness between the two during that time.
ReplyDeleteRemember that angelic Elijah Wood in Sin City?
Maybe the angelic Elijah is playing Mr. Pop in a kind of "musical cast" game -- the way Cate Blanchett was Bob Dylan for a while! I'll be interested to see what the final product is like.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I don't know a heck of a lot about Iggy -- but it's a safe bet that he was young once! Am I right in remembering that the Stooges era would have been arouond his late 20s to mid-30s? I seem to remember, he had quite a hot bod... One tends to notice these things.