Actor talks using real weapons on Lord Of The Rings trilogy from 2002
"When it wasn't a safety thing then we would always use the heavy swords when we needed lighter swords we swapped it for like aluminium ones. That was fought a safety thing that we had to what it was incredible and then when we got the Elven daggers as a gift."
On Location shooting
"We had to wait for three days because of weather and the helicopters couldn't he couldn't land so we spent three days just hanging around a room like this because we're right in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't a nice hotel .The whole day was too much hassle because weather and stuff to get the helicopter Sunday night but we would just set out having lunch in this amazing location and that that's a great memory for me".