Director has cast his replacement Fili.
Peter Jackson has announced the replacement casting of dwarf Fili via his official Facebook page. Replacing Robert Kazinsky, who quit the production last month for “personal reasons,” will be New Zealand actor Dean O’Gorman (‘The Almighty Johnsons’).
Along with the casting of O’Gorman, the director has revealed that ‘Pushing Daisies’ actor Lee Pace has joined the two part adaptation. Pace will star as the Elven King Thranduil, the father of Orlando Bloom’s Legolas.
“I’m very pleased to be welcoming two new cast members to our team.Dean O’Gorman will be playing Fili. Dean’s a terrific Kiwi actor, who I am thrilled to be working with. He’s recently been in an excellent TV series down here called “The Almighty Johnsons”, and I should let fans of that show know that our shooting schedule allows Dean to continue with a second series next year. Dean will be joining us next week.
I’m also pleased to announce that Lee Pace will be playing the Elven King Thranduil. Casting these Tolkien stories is very difficult, especially the Elven characters, and Lee has always been our first choice for Thranduil. He’s going to be great. We loved his performance in a movie called “The Fall” a few years ago, and have been hoping to work with him since. When we were first discussing who would be right for Thranduil, Lee came into mind almost immediately.
It’s been a great week, and I’m looking forward to the next few. It’s going to be interesting…
More soon.
Cheers,
Peter J”