Articles & Interviews - 2009

An Interview With Actor & Musician Billy Boyd

Posted by Eric on Wednesday, September 30th, 2009.

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And Beecake? What can you tell us about the name?

That came from Dom [Dominic Monaghan], a great friend of mine. He played Merry in Lord of the Rings. He was on holiday from Lost and took three months off, decided to go Spain. While he was in Spain he was sending me the photographs of everywhere he was. One day on a beach, one day in a pub with people he met, etc… and one day he sent me a picture of a cake cooovered in bees. He went into a bakery and one of the cakes was just covered in bees. All the way. There were bees flying around, but they absolutely loved this cake. He sent me the picture, calling it a “the beecake” and I just thought it was a great sounding word. That’s how we came up with Beecake.

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Since I run a Geek blog, I’ve got to ask. Favorite comic book / graphic novel? Favorite video games?

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We used to play a lot of games when we made Lord of the Rings. Me, Dom, Elijah. At that time, it was all about FIFA and soccer games, sports games when you can bad mouth each other. God of War games for when I’m by myself. Also I love the JRPGs, oh, and SoCOM! LOVED that. It was challenging. Now I’m getting into the Nintendo Wii. It’s easy, you can pick it up for 15 minutes here and there.

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Now some questions from our readers, if you’ve got the time.

Of course!

@mainpa Do you still keep in touch with your fellow Lord of the Rings actors?

Yeah! Still talk to the guys. I love Elijah, very close, talk almost every week. Me and Dom are pretty much best friends, we talk almost daily. Orlando, Viggo… you know, it’s weird, cause when we were talking about making the movie, we knew in our heads that it was cheesy saying the movie was special and we’d be real friends… but it’s absolutely true. TEN YEARS since we started filming the first one, we’re still great friends, we still meet up, go on holidays together. Proved it was special, real experience.

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Full article at Geekadelphia:

http://geekadelphia.com/2009/09/30/an-interview-with-billy-boyd/