By Michaela Gordoni
LORD OF THE RINGS’ Sean Bean, who played Boromir, chose to hike up a mountain in full costume in the middle of the night so that he didn’t have to ride in a helicopter.
“Yeah, I was very scared of flying at the time,” the 66-year-old confessed in a recent interview, PEOPLE reported.
“And there were a lot of helicopters on that show,” commented Viggo Mortensen, who starred as Aragorn.
Mortensen recalled a cold day when Bean did brave the helicopter. It wasn’t a happy ride.
“It was a 40-minute ride and there were a lot of downdrafts and stuff,” he said to Bean. “The helicopter dropped several times and you were white-knuckling it. You were horrified.”
“You said to me, ‘I really don’t like this. I had to take some pills to just even take the plane from England to New Zealand. I won’t be doing it again.’ And I thought to myself, ‘Well, there’s a lot of places where we’re gonna have to do this.’”
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But he didn’t have to after all.
“The next morning, we had a scene up on a mountain outside Queenstown, and he said, ‘I’ll get up at two in the morning, I don’t care, and I’ll walk up the mountain.’ Which is what he did!” Mortensen said.
“I was in full costume and I set off before everyone else, but I got there about the same time as everybody else,” Bean said. “It was such an adventure, you know? In every sense of the word.” It wasn’t just his hike, the scripts and the movies, but “also our shenanigans and our adventures as people were…It was so unusual. I’ve never known anything like it,” he added.
Bean previously said that Mortensen is a good pal of his.
“We had a great relationship together, as characters in the film and also as people, as friends,” he said of Mortensen.
Boromir dies in the first movie, which, ironically, was Mortensen’s favorite scene.
“That scene, I have to say, no offense to anybody else or any other part of the trilogy, but that’s maybe my favourite scene,” Mortensen said. “It’s such a beautiful scene. And there are no effects, there are no imaginary monsters.”
“It’s just two people who have a connection in terms of their ethnicity — you know, Gondor and all that — but they’ve been at odds. They’ve been kinda butting heads until then. And then there’s just such a strong connection.”
Bean has died in many roles on screen, but Boromir’s death is his favorite.
“It’s my favorite death scene, and I’ve done a few,” he chuckled in another interview. “You couldn’t ask for a more heroic death.”
Next year will introduce a new LOTR movie called THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM.
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