{"id":105044,"date":"2024-06-15T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/russell-crowe-turned-down-aragorn-in-lord-of-the-rings-after-iffy-peter-jackson-meeting\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T17:50:56","slug":"russell-crowe-turned-down-aragorn-in-lord-of-the-rings-after-iffy-peter-jackson-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/russell-crowe-turned-down-aragorn-in-lord-of-the-rings-after-iffy-peter-jackson-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe Turned Down Aragorn in \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 After Iffy Peter Jackson Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russell Crowe on turning down Aragorn: \u201cI very much felt the studio were making that decision, not the director. [Peter Jackson] wasn\u2019t saying the sort of things that directors were saying to you if they were really trying to attract you to a project.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmM5ZBtu6Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/QmM5ZBtu6Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZSharf\/status\/1801726500963819522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">June 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Russell Crowe\u00a0has no regrets when it comes to \u201cThe Lord of the Rings.\u201d<br \/>Crowe met director\u00a0Peter Jackson\u00a0to play the role of Aragorn in his film trilogy, but their conversation apparently turned off Crowe from wanting to move forward with the movies.<br \/>Crowe knows it was the right call to let it pass.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe was asked if he has any \u201cRings\u201d regrets :<br \/><i>\u201cI don\u2019t actually. I very much felt the studio were making that decision, not the film director. And I talked to Peter Jackson over the phone, and he wasn\u2019t saying the sort of things that directors were saying to you if they were really trying to attract you to a project. And I just kind of got a sense that he already had somebody else in mind that he wanted to do. And me stepping forward and saying yes was actually going to get in his way. We come from the same place. So there\u2019s a nuance in that conversation that other people might not hear \u2014 we\u2019re both New Zealanders \u2014 in his own way without him saying anything negative, that he had another plan. So I just left it at that.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZSharf\/status\/1801726500963819522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128619145.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Crowe on turning down Aragorn: \u201cI very much felt the studio were making that decision, not the director. [Peter Jackson] wasn\u2019t saying the sort of things that directors were saying to you if they were really trying to attract you to a project.&#8221;https:\/\/t.co\/QmM5ZBtu6Y \u2014 Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) June 14, 2024 Russell Crowe\u00a0has no regrets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}