When thinking of movies like the saga of The Lord of the rings we find it impossible to imagine the different characters without the actors and actresses who played each one. A few months ago we told that Keanu Reeves tried to be part of this trilogy to play Aragorn, but another very famous actor who also participated in the casting was Jake Gyllenhaal.
Oscar nominee for Brokeback Mountainwho has also participated more recently in films such as Spider-Man: Far From Hometried to be part of the franchise’s cast of actors in the role of Frodo. In this case Peter Jackson is seen that he was very clear about the profile he was looking for, since he wanted someone who was not well known, young and if he had been English even better.
Gyllenhaal practically fit what was being sought, since at that time the number of films in which he had appeared could be counted on the fingers of one hand. However, at the moment of truth and demonstrate his talent during the audition was a complete failureas he himself recounted a few years ago in an interview on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show.
When the casting was taking place, his agents called him thinking that he would be the ideal man to play Frodo at the age of 20. So, he appeared in front of Peter Jackson, the director of the saga, and had to represent a scene that did not go well, since it hardly had dialogue and I wasn’t quite sure what to do.
He basically had to pick up the ring with a surprised face and slowly, but at the audition he just bent down and picked it up like it was nothing, which caused me to Jackson will hang his head in shame. for what he had just witnessed. Even so, she got a second chance in yet another scene in which this time there was a bit more dialogue.
In this other case it was not good at all because of the accent he put on, by not making it sound English, which was precisely what was wanted. Naturally, this caused him to explain to Jackson that his agents had not explained any of this to him, to which the latter advised him that he should fire his agent immediately.
Although Jake Gyllenhaal remembers that moment with a lot of humor, of course Peter Jackson was not amused and of course he did not even consider having him play Frodo, which as we already know the paper ended up falling into the hands of Elijah Wood. In any case, we are left with the question of what the movies would have been like if the audition had gone well in the end and Gyllenhaal had gotten away with it.
In ExtraLife | If you liked The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, here are six games you can play between episodes: more fighting and less talking
In ExtraLife | How the cinematographic phenomenon of The Lord of the Rings was lived in the era of 128 bits
In ExtraLife | 13 Games Based on The Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth You (Probably) Didn’t Know About
