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Empire Awards 2014

The Jameson Empire Awards 2014 were held in London on Sunday 30th March and were attended by the following members of The Hobbit cast: Richard Armitage, Adam Brown, Aidan Turner and hosted by James Nesbitt. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug had the most number of nominations with seven as reported by the BBC News website. They awards are voted for by fans not by the film industry. Richard Armitage was nominated as Best Supporting Actor, but Michael Fassbender took the award. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug won Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy film and Richard spoke on stage with his fellow cast mates to accept the award. Richard also went on stage to present the Best Female Newcomer award.

The awards ceremony and pre-show interviews are here on YouTube. Richard was not interviewed, but you can see Aidan Turner’s interview from that link.

 

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World Premiere Tour

WATCH THE ENTIRE LIVESTREAM OF THE EUROPEAN PREMIERE IN BERLIN 9 DEC 2013: CLICK HERE

WATCH THE HOBBIT WORLDWIDE FAN EVENT 4 NOV 2013: CLICK HERE

WATCH THE HOBBIT GOOGLE HANGOUT 4 DEC 2013: CLICK HERE

WORLD PREMIERE LIVESTREAM 2 DEC 2013: THE OFFICIAL HOBBIT FACEBOOK PAGE

 

The video interviews below all took place during The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug promotional tour from the end of November and mid December 2013.


Madrid Videos

  • Interview with Richard and Luke: some interesting comments about their interactions with fans and a funny comment about dealing with the fish in Laketown. 
  • A short clip of Richard and Luke promoting The Hobbit in Madrid on TVE News. Non-Spanish speakers might just about hear the English behind the dubbing.

 

Berlin Videos

  • The entire livestream from the 11 December 2013 Berlin premiere is here (with adverts). 
  • The Finnish tv-channel MTV3 interviewed Richard (probably in Berlin): click here.
  • Richard interviewed at the Berlin Hobbit premiere on YouTube.

 

LA Videos

  • Headlines Today (India) interview with Richard. An interesting last answer about how his previous work has benefited playing the role of Thorin.
  • Warner Bros UK trailer interviews with many of the cast including Richard: here and here.
  • IGN interview with Richard and Luke. Richard talks about Thorin’s relationship with Bard.
  • TVsTalkingPictures Richard talks about Thorin’s character arc, the effect of his grandfather’s legacy on Thorin, how Bilbo helps Thorin to understand himself, whether Richard is interested in producing or directing and using his knowledge of Shakespeare to play Thorin.
  • Screenslam: the height of a dwarf, Thorin is like a Bison, Thorin’s relationship with Bilbo, Thorin’s journey in the film, the effect of working with Peter Jackson, his most enjoyable scene in the film, re-reading the Hobbit book, working in NZ.
  • Rotten Tomatoes: the barrel scene, Peter Jackson’s glee during the barrel scene, dreaming in character, wanting to ski dressed as Thorin, inheriting burdens from our parents and wanting to make them proud (mostly speaking about Thorin rather than himself).
  • Scoop.co.nz: the importance of The Hobbit to NZ, Thorin character analysis including his mistrust and how Thorin judges his own decisions, the physical challenges of filming The Hobbit, the life-changing experience.
  • Yahoo Movies: this is SO funny! Hobbit cast ‘guess the feet’. 
  • AccessHollywood video 1: RA on the world premiere and costumes for the Armitage Army.
  • AccessHollywood video 2: a longer video in which RA speaks about Gandalf and Thorin’s first meeting, Thorin’s relationship with Bilbo, extra scenes written for the films, working with Evangeline Lilly, Orlando Bloom and Benedict Cumberbatch and he talks about watching the Lord of the Rings for the first time.
  • TODAYonline (Singapore newspaper): filming the barrels scene, working with Benedict Cumberbatch, does he miss the beard and what he’d like for Christmas.
  • Kevin McCarthy interviews the cast of The Hobbit via Geek Nation. Richard appears at 8m 34s and again at 11m 40s.
  • HLNTV’s Showbiz Tonight interviewed Richard the same day as the MTV interview below.
  • MTV’s Josh Horowitz interviewed Richard in which he believes Peter Jackson will not be able to resist making a film version of The Silmarillion. He also talks about Thorin’s dragon sickness and invents a new word. Some spoilers about the third film. This video is not able to view in the UK so RACentral have kindly uploaded it to YouTube.
  • Richard and Martin Freeman talk about the beauty of New Zealand in these videos: Hidden Bay – Turoa, Ohakune and ‘The Hobbit’ cast talk about New Zealand.
  • RTL have posted an interview with Richard from a recent Desolation of Smaug press junket. Watch here on RTL or here on YouTube.
  • Allocine have an interview with the Hobbit cast on their site, with Richard at 1m 15s and again at 4m 11s.
  • Four uncensored Cinemax video interviews with Richard, Benedict, Evangeline and Luke are here: clip 1, clip 2, clip 3 and clip 4. 
  • AMC’s interview with Richard from the LA press junket.
  • Middle-earth News interview with Richard from the LA press junket.
  • Richard announces the Regal Superticket offer (presumably this is just an offer for US residents?)
  • Canal+ ‘Rencontres de cinema’ 23 minute featurette with lots of clips from the film and new behind-the-scenes footage. Although this is obviously in French, it is dubbed so you can make out some of the English speech if you listen carefully. Richard talks about the barrel scene at 17m 39s. Thanks to @RArmitageFrance.
  • HollywoodStreams Richard talks about filming the barrel sequence with behind-the-scenes footage.
  • This Hungarian interview with the Hobbit cast at the LA press junket shows some behind the scenes footage and features Richard at 5m 2s. Richard says Merry Christmas at the end in Hungarian.

 

UK Videos

  • MovieInterview talking about the family atmosphere working in New Zealand and a mention of Into the Storm.
  • A Sky Movies Hobbit special including Richard (from 51 seconds) is on YouTube. Screencaps from this video are in the DoS Promo gallery, starting with this picture.
  • Total Film ‘The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition: Cast Wishlist’
  • MTV UK interview Luke Evans and Richard Armitage. Richard talks about the most gruelling scenes to film and how Peter Jackson brings new ideas to the studio every day. He also talks about stinky fish, barrels and the splendour of Smaug.
  • ThisisFakeDIY interview with Richard from a UK press junket. Richard talks about reception to the film, the differences in Thorin in the second film, filming a pivotal scene at the mountain, filming the barrel scene, working with Benedict Cumberbatch and what Richard thinks is the best piece of Hobbit merchandise.
  • TwoTubeTV interviews Martin and Richard. RA didn’t realise at first how much they would delve into Thorin’s character. Advice to himself if he went on the same acting journey again: have more fun, but acknowledging that he needed to build stamina and couldn’t always relax.
  • HeyUGuys the similiarities between working on the other side of the world and playing a character on a journey and how the dragon exceeded his expectations.
  • Warner Bros UK have posted a new video on YouTube, in which Richard announces that tickets for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug are now available (this is true for the UK but not all countries). 

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