"It's definitely not been an intentional thing to shy away from mainstream cinema," he says. Wood also cropped up in middle-sized films such as Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated and Sin City, but recently he has been further off the radar, in short films, web films, music and, increasingly, television. I was only in makeup for four minutes a day!" "So the first thing I worked on was a movie barely anybody saw, called Ash Wednesday, and one of my reasons for doing it was because it was really tiny. "My immediate feeling after the first Rings movie came out was that I couldn't conceive of doing anything massive again," he says. If the fate of Star Wars' Mark Hamill ever awaited him, he seems to have avoided it, largely by doing as many un-Tolkeinesque things as possible. He's dressed in standard hipster/skater attire – plaid shirt, skinny jeans – and he seems relaxed and chatty, often breaking into a bemused, falsetto laugh. He's not at all like Frodo in real life, even if those big blue eyes still look like a special effect. It would be easy to imagine that in the years since Wood finally hurled that infernal ring into Mount Doom, he has still been burdened by it, dragging himself around an indifferent movie industry where nobody can see him as anything other than the hairy-footed little hero of a colossally successful movie trilogy. I keep it in a little box." Not on a chain around his neck? "I carried it for a long time," he says with mock solemnity. But I don't think it's real gold – gold-plated. "I do have the Ring, but it's not inscribed, and it's gold.
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