After the three films in Peter Jackson’S The Lord of the Rings trilogy were wrapped, movie stars Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, AND Sir Ian McKellen headed to the tattoo shop. They had matching ink bearing the word nine written in Elvish, in dedication to their noble crew of nine. That crew included John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli, but the actor famously refused to get the tattoo. His stunt double ended up getting tattooed instead.
But Rhys-Davies recently opened up about his decision in an interview with Comic Book, saying:
“Hell. Do you really think I want my beautiful skin broken by a dirty needle? Good God. No. Look, when they dig up my body in 1000 years, they’ll find a missing toe. They’ll find a broken leg from a plane crash over there. They’ll find a damaged hip there. They’ll find a brick mark in my skull there. A broken bone in there. Something broken from a plane crash there. Um, oh, that’s a wall that fell on me. That’s enough. Not they want marks on me. No tattoos.”
He’s quite convinced about the whole tattoo thing. It’s all good though. I’m sure her co-stars haven’t lost their love for the boy. Rhys-Davies will soon return to another beloved franchise with the upcoming sequel Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destinywhich will hit theaters on June 30.
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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