Elijah Wood interview: ‘There’s a difference between titillation and being confrontational, but it’s a fine line’

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Jacob’s mom was asking me, ‘You’ve been through this – do you have any advice?’” Wood recalls. Don’t worry about it.’” open image in gallery Wood in the 1994 film ‘North' It helps, he adds, to have “a sense of identity that pre-exists your relationship to the work that you’re doing. If there were a situation where it felt like someone wasn’t as together, or maybe was more in their infancy, maybe I would feel a sense of protectiveness, just from one human being to another.” open image in gallery Wood alongside Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Sean Astin in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' Wood was 18 when he was cast as Frodo Baggins, the furry-footed heart and soul of Peter Jackson’s epic fantasy Lord of the Rings. “We weren’t going to show any violence, and we were never going to show any nudity, or any of the typical points of titillation from an exploitation standpoint,” says Wood now.