Mark Kermode
- English
- Presenter and reviewer
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Audio: Stephen Fry on his Hobbit film role
Actor, writer and broadcaster, Stephen Fry, is to play Mayor of Laketown in The Lord of the Rings prequel Peter Jackson is currently shooting in New Zealand.
"It doesn't involve putting hair on my feet. At least, as far as I know," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
He told the BBC's Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo that he plays a corrupt, pompous official.
Fry described the character as being "somewhere between Mayor Quimby in The Simpsons...and Adam West in Family Guy."
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, BBC News, 3rd June 2011Video - Pete Postlethwaite: Brassed Off
Saying goodbye to one of our overlooked national treasures is not the best way to start the year but let's remember him in one of his greatest performances as band conductor Danny in the brilliant and no less undervalued classic British movie, Brassed Off.
Mark Kermode, BBC, 7th January 2011