| The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, 2 February 2004 |
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The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, February 2, 2004 Kilborn: Our next guest is a talented British actor who has made millions of fans around the world as the hobbit Merry in the LOTR, please welcome Dominic Monaghan. Kilborn: Nice to see you. Dominic: You too. Dominic: Wow! Sit down! Kilborn: How you doing? Dominic: I’m all right, yeah. Kilborn: So how did this movie change your life? It just had to -- Dominic: Well, I live in LA now, that’s kinda of different, you know. Um, it’s weird, you know, when things like this happen, it is your life, so you don’t really have any concept of things changing. It just is your life. You’re cool with all of the things going on. Kilborn: You’re big in England because of the TV series, right? Dominic: Uh, yeah, I was kinda you know– I was on a TV program so they knew me, I was doing theatre over there. You know, not in any way near the kind of worldwide phenomenon that LOTR has become. Kilborn: Yeah. This is huge, right? Dominic: Kinda crazy. Kilborn: Yeah yeah. And how did it go at – was it Golden Globes you were at? Dominic: Golden Globes, yeah. Golden Globes was fun, man. I um, heh, I think I have -- I think I have a face that looks like I’m -- Kilborn: Trouble? Dominic: Up to mischief, yeah, causing trouble. Kilborn: Security grabbed you, or what’d they do? Dominic: They -- I went out the night before with my mates, because in LA you need to bring your ID with you all the time, you know. Kilborn: Sure. Dominic: I lost my ID, so I turned up to the Golden Globes without my ID and I’m consistently carded all the way through. Kilborn: Oh boy. Dominic: And I’m totally cool with – I’m like, “Look, you know, you guys have jobs to do, it’s ok” – but people from New Line that represented me are saying “This guy’s in LOTR -- ” Kilborn: This guy’s what? Dominic: “This guy’s in LOTR” -- Kilborn: LOTR, right. Dominic: “He’s in one of the movies that’s probably going to win best picture tonight.” And they were like, “Sorry, can’t do it. Can’t do it” Kilborn: And what’d you do? Dominic: I just, you know, smiled and kinda…winked at the guys. Kilborn: That’ll go over great. Yeah, I wonder -- Dominic: Challenge authority! Challenge authority! Kilborn: So you admit you have a look that is dangerous – or up to no good. Dominic: I don’t know about dangerous – I don’t know about dangerous -- but, you know, cheeky, uh, you know, my mum always says “Even if you’re not doing something wrong, you look like the guy who is.” Kilborn: Yeah, got that right. So you mentioned LA, now the weather out here is tremendous. Dominic: Fantastic. Kilborn: Fantastic, yeah. Dominic: Not today. Kilborn: Not today. Dominic: It’s more like Manchester today. Kilborn: In general, it’s wonderful. Do you like LA? Dominic: I do like LA. I do have a few minor scruples. Kilborn: Yes. Hit me with them. Dominic: You guys can’t drive. Kilborn: We can not drive! Dominic: It’s simple as that. Kilborn: Why do you say that? Dominic: Drives me insane. You need to signal when you’re turning right or left – signal! And if you’re going to stop, don’t do it immediately, you know? Give us a little clue that you’re going to slow down! Kilborn: So we’re what – are we aggressive, are we lazy, not putting the blinker on? Dominic: I’d say, from an Englishman’s point of view, I would say you’re inconsiderate Kilborn: Inconsiderate! Dominic: Not you, of course! What do you drive? Kilborn: It doesn’t matter, does it? Dominic: No. Private question. Kilborn: Just a big-ass sedan. Dominic: Do you signal? Kilborn: What ? Ah, yes. Dominic: Good. Kilborn: I’m actually a safe driver, but I’m not from LA, so maybe the locals – and this is the other thing about the locals, when it rains they don’t know how to drive. Dominic: No, they don’t. I think because people drive so much in LA, they’re just so tired of being on the road, they don’t want to signal, they don’t want to turn, they just -- Kilborn: Yeah. And the traffic is bad here, correct? Dominic: Yeah, it is bad. Um, everything else I’m kind of cool with. Amazing food, ah, ah, you can surf here, which I really enjoy doing, beautiful women – Kilborn: Yeah, what do you think of the women? Dominic: I enjoy the women. I enjoy them. I think they're, ah, nice -- finally quashing those gay rumors about Elijah and I! Kilborn: Heh! Were there a lot of those? Dominic: Oh my God! There's a few of those! I mean, we don't necessarily say "No," or "Yes," we kind of go, "Hmmm!" Yeah, I love, you know, ladies in general, but here you have that kind of strange… swollen phenomenon. Kilborn: Yeah. Dominic: Swollen breast, swollen lips -- Kilborn: That’s not that common over in England, is it? Dominic: Fake boobs are just starting to come into play. But not, you know, the fake lips and the swollen cheeks and eyebrows and little chipmunk thing. Kilborn: Yeah, we don’t like that. Dominic: I don’t like that either. I go for the more of the natural, cooler, kind of music-looking type girls. Kilborn: Yeah, sure. Can they be America? Can they be British? Dominic: Sure, they can be. No, I don’t go for British girls that much. Kilborn: Why is that? Dominic: Because I hear that, and I’ve heard it for a long time and I’m used to it. It’s something that I know. Kilborn: Oh, you mean the accent? Dominic: Yeah. Whereas American girls seem to be a little more glamorous, a little more kind of, “Oh, are you a cheerleader?” Kilborn: How old are you? Dominic: I’m 27. Kilborn: You’re 27, you’re a kid. Are you friends with Jack Osbourne? Dominic: I am friends with Jack. Kilborn: You know Jack? Dominic: I do. I know his family really well, so I should send all my love to Ozzy and hope he’s doing well, and Sharon of course. Kilborn: You do an impression of Jack? Dominic: No, I don’t do Jack – I do Ozzy every so often. Kilborn: Oh, and impression of Ozzy? Dominic: If I’m in a bad mood or if I want to get attention from one of my mates I do “SHARON!” – but that’s pretty much as far as it goes. Fantastic television, the Osbournes. Kilborn: Yeah it is, it’s riveting. Dominic: I went out with Kelly at the Golden Globes and you know, they’re just a really very, very cool, hip family, regardless what goes on in their lives, just very cool people. Kilborn: Is that show on in England? Dominic: Yeah, it’s huge in England. Kilborn: Yeah. Dominic: But we have the Queen’s speech in England, you know about that, on Queen’s Day, we had Sharon’s speech a couple of years ago at the same time Kilborn: That’s huge! Dominic: So the cool kids are watching Sharon, and, you know, kind of idiots are watching the Queen. Kilborn: What’s your next project? Dominic: I don’t really know, man. It’s pilot season here, so as you know LA is kinda of crazy at this point, meeting with a lot of people. I want to work with the Discovery Channel at some point this year, making kind of – Kilborn: Really? Dominic: Yeah, natural history program. Kilborn: Yeah, doing what? Dominic: I don’t know, like, um, my kind of idea for a program is kind of a third of a nature program, a third of a kind of a tourism kind of program, a third kind of environmental consciousness kind of thing – my biggest influences growing up were Sir David Attenborough. Do you know this guy? Kilborn: Come again? Dominic: Sir David Attenborough? Kilborn: Oh, yeah, yeah. Dominic: He’s an English natural history host, so I just want to be back in that medium. I just want to do something for my generation, because I love animals. Kilborn: That’s great! Dominic: Sure is! Kilborn: You’ve gotta come back Dominic: I’d love to. Kilborn: We ran out of time, you’ve gotta come back. LOTR ROTK, let’s get out and see that thing, yeah? Dominic: Yeah, ‘cause no one else is! Kilborn: Dominic Monaghan! Credit to: ogreatitskate http://web.archive.org/web/20040411223647/www.dominic-monaghan.us/transcripts_kilborn.html
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