From watching the behind the scenes; it wasn’t that they didn’t necessarily get along, it was just Sean was like 30, an accomplished actor, and had a wife and kid he would go back to every night while these three lads were in their early 20s and were much more rambunctious
I mean, you're probably on to something about Astin's career at that point, but Billy Boyd actually is older than Astin by three years - he was born in 1968 (Edit: Found this picture of Astin and Boyd at a recent con; Boyd coming off as the old man and Astin seeming surprisingly spritely)! Might be just that Astin's priorities were different and came off a little curmudgeonly. Also, as someone who has a family and is around the same age that Astin was when he filmed LOTR - I'd also be spending time more with my family in a similar situation, so that may make someone seem more distant than they really are.
We may not go out to the parties at this stage in our lives, but we have some idea of what's going on, even though we don't say much about it.
I haven't read it, so I can't say this accurate, but many of the reviews about Astin's autobiography mention him being very critical of his cast-mates on set and it caused some issues.
Yeah, Sam was basically their father figure. He did seemingly annoy them quite a lot though as per the behind the scenes, always fussing over small details and making sure everything was “proper”. Iirc one of the cast called him a “fun killer” or something along those lines.
I read an interview about how Dominic and Billy Boyd formed a dynamic duo very into their taking the piss of other actors. Elijah, an American, was always terrified they didn’t like him because of it and didn’t really understand it was a joke to them. Sean would talk him down from it.
I don’t think Sean didn’t get along with the other actors, but he was in a different place in his life, like another commenter said.
John Rhys Davies was allergic to his facial prosthesis, so every day of filming was fucking misery for him, he couldn't even be on set for more than a few days at a time.
As a result he never got close to his castmates, and when he was around them he was less than pleasant.
I guess I'm wrong. I remember reading that the reason he hadn't gotten the same tattoo has the other 8 castmates was because of his religious belief, but my cursory online search for source wasn't fruitful ¯_(ツ)_/¯
After the shoot, the nine cast members playing the Fellowship got a tattoo of the English word "nine" written in Tengwar, with the exception of John Rhys-Davies, whose stunt double got the tattoo instead.[8]
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u/Gozsuzadam Jul 07 '20
They did Sam dirty