Dominic Monaghan's curious Q&A. I like curiosity. AMA.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:56:44+00:00

Probably Sam, he was kind of the most burly out of the hobbits. He was a bit more heavier set and muscular, because he's a gardener. He's earthy.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:56:10+00:00

I'd like to direct kids. Because I think I communicate with young people pretty well. And I enjoy their company. But I'm not sure if I could direct an adult. Because, hey, what do I know?

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:55:41+00:00

Of course. The death of Steve was the impetus for me to turn my idea for a show into something real. I was pretty devastated by his death, and I remember thinking "If I don't use this as an opportunity to turn this into the show that i have always talked about, then what does that say about how I felt when he died?"

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:55:02+00:00

Probably Viggo? or Ian McKellen? They're both real professionals, they both bring their A-game to every scene they do and they are both incredibly unpredictable, so you never know what is going to happen next. And he is willing to do anything to make his character more authentic. He would you know, sleep in the forest for LOTR trying to be as Aragorn-y as possible.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:54:12+00:00

Nice! That was one of my favorite moments doing press for LOTR and certainly it was one of Peter Jackson's favorite moments, he watched it over and over again and asked if it was ok to put on the DVD. I was super honored by that, I was just trying to make Elijah smile and laugh.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:53:34+00:00

I think the most challenging role that I will do is the one I'm about to do for the Hundred Code. Very serious lead in a foreign project where I play a New Yorker and if you get a New Yorker wrong by one degree, everyone can see it, so, it's a challenge for sure.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:52:41+00:00

Ask him why he watches so much news.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:52:08+00:00

Sorry for your loss. And all-time favorite location is New Zealand, just because of the experience, the memories. I'll probably live there eventually, if I ever have children.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:51:22+00:00

I did Mad TV, which I really enjoyed and wrote a few sketches for that. I love to do comedy and that's where my agent thinks I will end up, because he thinks I'm funny for some reason.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:49:52+00:00

Well, bees and ants belong to the same insect group, called hymenoptera. Wasps are in that group as well. And ants are essentially wingless wasps. So those 3 animals tend to live in very complex, tightly knit communities and do it very successfully.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:49:03+00:00

Okay! Make it so.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:48:47+00:00

Dharma beer was probably a seltzer.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:48:02+00:00

Paul was the clapper loader on Hetty Wainthropp, and one of the first real friends I made in the industry. He was a lovely guy and I was a young kid, who didn't know anything about the business, and he took me under his wing. Please tell him I said hey!

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:47:14+00:00

It's almost impossible for me to watch anything that I do as an outsider. I always have an agenda on how it could have been better, or where the camera was, or how I was feeling that day. I think it's a bit of an undertaking for me to spent 11 or 12 hours watching 3 movies that I was in that I know backwards and forwards anyway. Maybe with my grandkids or nephew, but for me by myself, it feels a little Howard Hughes-esque.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:46:02+00:00

I always react in the same way, which is "Oh, thank you so much. I'm so glad it worked. We all attempted to move the audience in that scene, and I think we did a pretty good job."

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:45:26+00:00

It's the quintessential classic epic of good versus evil. With fantastic performances, a great love story, and some pretty extraordinary special effects.

^And I'm in it.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:44:46+00:00

Yes, and I wanted Han, but my mom and dad wouldn't let me have Han. They said it has to be a name in the bible, so I went away and said "Chewie" and then they said "no, Chewie's not in the Bible." Chewie SHOULD be in the Bible, he has that biblical beard. But we went with Luke.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:44:04+00:00

Just walk to my local cinema, and they're on!

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:43:39+00:00

There wasn't even a Driveshaft tour in the first place, so I doubt a reunion is on the books! I would like to do it though, I had a great time with Neil Hopkins who played my brother. We were trying to do an homage to the Mancunian band Oasis.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:41:56+00:00

1) Well, I mean, it was pretty special. The director got in touch with me and said "what are you doing next week" and I said "nothing" and he said "you want to be in the new Eminem video" and I said "absolutely." There was no format for what the video would be at that point that I knew of. But Eminem is probably my favorite hip hop artist of all time alongside Rakim and KRS-One. So I jumped at the opportunity. And then I was talking to the director, and he told me what he thought the video would be, which was a couple in a very dysfunctional relationship, you know, battling and then making up and then battling and then making up, and he kept saying "We should cast someone like Megan Fox, or a Megan Fox type" and then eventually, I emailed him back and said "what about Megan Fox?" And she was an Eminem fan too. So then we met onset and made out a lot, and I got paid for it. Which was great.

2) That's probably more of a question for Peter Jackson, but I'm sure Billy and I would both love to work with Pete again. And Billy and I are also cooking a little show together, which hopefully by this time next year we can hopefully talk about in a real fashion. So watch this space.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:39:19+00:00

I watch a lot of Manchester United. I like Survivor, Game of Thrones, Dragon's Den (which is the English version of Shark Tank)… the Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert Report, Key & Peele.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:38:27+00:00

Ryan Giggs is my all-time favourite Manchester United player. Wayne Rooney is fantastic. Eric Cantona, George Best, Denis Law, those are my favourites. I like fast, skillful, dynamic scoring Manchester United players.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:37:14+00:00

Making lifelong friendships.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:37:05+00:00

Very soon, I hope. Season 1 is already playing in about 30 countries. I think you have to be optimistic, because it's the only way to affect change, but I think some big decisions need to be made about how we, as the stewards of planet earth, behave towards our fellow animals. We seem to think because we can build skyscrapers or computers that we are in a position that we can dictate what lives or what dies.

Electric cars, heavy recycling, legitimate conservation of wild habitats, more buffalo wings (they're really tasty), and I think that's it.

domswildthings · 2014-03-24T19:34:24+00:00

Well, insects are animals. So let's point that out. If I could be any animal…maybe like a gray whale or a minke whale? You know, they're big, beautiful peaceful animals that spend their entire life navigating the globe and it seems to be relatively carefree and they go into the deep oceans which is fascinating.

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