{"id":848908,"date":"2021-10-05T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=848908"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T16:43:33","slug":"fk-him-elijah-wood-says-ugly-lord-of-the-rings-orc-was-supposed-to-look-like-disgraced-producer-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fk-him-elijah-wood-says-ugly-lord-of-the-rings-orc-was-supposed-to-look-like-disgraced-producer-harvey-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018F**k Him\u2019: Elijah Wood Says Ugly \u2018Lord Of The Rings\u2019 Orc Was Supposed To Look Like Disgraced Producer Harvey Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffk-him-elijah-wood-says-ugly-lord-of-the-rings-orc-was-supposed-to-look-like-disgraced-producer-harvey-weinstein%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=848908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"45.416246215943\">\n<p>Frodo Baggins actor Elijah Wood said Monday that an iconic, ugly orc from \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d (LOTR) was designed to look like disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/05\/23\/lord-of-the-rings-star-hollywood-is-full-of-child-abusers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wood<\/a> said that after director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/15\/peter-jackson-claims-miramax-kept-him-from-casting-two-of-weinsteins-accusers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Jackson<\/a> finally got the trilogy away from Miramax \u2014 which was then run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein \u2014 one of the orcs was made to look like Weinstein as a sort of \u201cfuck you.\u201d <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/01\/lord-of-the-rings-series-movies-hulu\/\">(RELATED: It\u2019s The Perfect Time To Watch \u2018The Lord Of The Rings.\u2019 Here\u2019s Where You Can Stream The Series)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN (1:24:30):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/dax-shepard-kristen-bell-drug-tests-at-home-relapse-substance-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dax Shepard\u2019s<\/a> podcast, \u201cArmchair Expert,\u201d Wood discussed the reports that Weinstein, who originally owned the rights, had pushed for LOTR to be a single film at Miramax. Jackson argued in favor of dividing the trilogy the way the books were divided, which prompted Weinstein to threaten to replace him as director.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson eventually took the project to New Line Cinema, which at the time was small enough that taking on such a project essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/07\/the-lord-of-the-rings-20-years-peter-jackson-bob-shaye-new-line-cinema-cannes-magazine-feature-1234785740\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">risked the entire studio<\/a>. Producer Bob Shaye signed on as well.<\/p>\n<p>In another recent podcast hosted by LOTR actors Billy Boyd (who played Pippin) and Dominic Monaghan (who played Merry), Samwise Gamgee actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/06\/amazon-lord-of-the-rings-sean-astin-amazing-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sean Astin<\/a>&nbsp;mentioned the resemblance between one of the orcs and Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sean Astin: An Unexpected Guest (Part 1 of 2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HA7BOidwgHU?start=731&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one that looked like Harvey Weinstein. It was an absolute, photo-real image of Harvey Weinstein on this villainous Uruk-hai rubber suit, the mask or whatever. I didn\u2019t know if I was supposed to say anything,\u201d Astin said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood confirmed to Shepard that was absolutely intentional.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.1104972375691\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 orc was designed to look like Harvey Weinstein as a \u2018f*ck you\u2019 from director Peter Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SsS80CTrmZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/SsS80CTrmZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UPROXX (@UPROXX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UPROXX\/status\/1445414736313655305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne of the orc masks \u2014 and I remember this vividly \u2014 was designed to look like Harvey Weinstein as a sort of a fuck you,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that is OK to talk about now, the guy is fucking incarcerated. Fuck him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frodo Baggins actor Elijah Wood said Monday that an iconic, ugly orc from \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d (LOTR) was designed to look like disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.Wood &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}