So the story takes you in all these different places and all these different conflicts and all these. It's reliable that he's a devoted friend and never is compromised. RELATED: Massive 31-Disc ‘Lord of the Rings’/‘Hobbit’ 4K Box Set Release Date Details, Bonus Content RevealedĪSTIN: Yeah. I made a determination with the members of the book club to try and experience it the best I can not from Sam's point of view. So we switched from the book I was going to do to Lord of the Rings. The publisher of Lord of the Rings granted us the right to use it just a week ago. We just finished my first one, which is Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. So is a new platform that has book clubs, and I have a book club. Did he put it on to hide from the orcs? I don't think he did. So yesterday, 20 years and the day after the movies I realized, it's the first time that it occurred to me that he didn't put the Ring on. He goes up to the Tower of Cirith Ungol, he kills Shagrat, and then Frodo wants the Ring back. When Shelob stabs Frodo, and Sam thinks he's dead, Sam takes the Ring. I mean, just in this series of interviews I've been doing, I talked to one person about the fact that Sam is a Ring-Bearer. But how do you feel about him now at this point in your life, as opposed to when you were playing him for the first time? Has your perspective on the character changed in the time since then?ĪSTIN: Well, my depth of understanding him changes all the time. Miraculously, right? Looking back on the movie, for you especially, people associate with you with Sam. He also spoke about how he's reading Fellowship with the Ring with fans as part of his new book club on Fable, why Sam is a great literary character, and why his commitment is to approach the book as a fan without any pressure on himself.Ĭollider: It's such a pleasure to be talking with you, what with Fellowship having its anniversary this weekend and everything.
In the following interview, which you can both watch above and read below, Astin spoke about how his perspective on Sam is different now than it was when he first played the character 20 years ago and how the films defined his own career for all that time. In celebration of Fellowship of the Ring's 20th anniversary, Collider had the chance to chat with Sean Astin, who played the loyal hobbit and steadfast friend Samwise Gamgee.
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