Sir Ian had to act to these stands with the actors’ faces pasted on them. It’s hilarious. xD But at the same time, my heart also goes out to Sir Ian.
now this is neat
Now this is a professional.
"In order to shoot the dwarves and a large Gandalf, we couldn’t be in the same set. All I had for company was 13 photographs of the dwarves on top of stands with little lights – whoever’s talking flashes up. Pretending you’re with 13 other people when you’re on your own, it stretches your technical ability to the absolute limits. I cried, actually. I cried. Then I said out loud, ‘This is not why I became an actor’. Unfortunately the microphone was on and the whole studio heard.”
– Sir Ian McKellen (x)
i found out at supanova at a panel that originally one of the setworkers put little Xs in coloured tape on the floor to depict where the characters would be from gandalfs point of view. she was telling him which colour meant which actor when he cut in with a ‘thank you very much my dear…but im colourblind.’
i would have died in embarrassment, and then died again laughing afterward.