A pair of Hollywood actors, identified for one of the crucial common film franchises of all time, is hitting the stage at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre this month.
The duo first met once they performed hobbits Merry and Pippin within the award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now, 20 years later, Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan stay finest buddies in actual life.
“(The primary time we met) we had a beer and performed a recreation of pool and I mentioned ‘This man is nice.’ Twenty years on, we have been enjoying pool final evening,” says Boyd.
“While you do a job that lengthy, two years, all of us grew to become excellent buddies,” provides Monaghan.
“Billy and I, you already know we’re each Brits, so we all know what it means to have that little sort of banter tradition the place you’re continuously having enjoyable and making one another snigger and we predict that’s essential.”
Each have profitable solo careers, however select to work as a duo each likelihood they get.
“While you type of lean in direction of having an outlook on life that’s optimistic, it’s refreshing so that you can hang around with individuals who have the identical outlook,” says Monaghan.
Neptune Theatre’s creative director Jeremy Webb is pictured with actors Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan. (Courtesy: Stoo Metz)
The pair is presently two weeks deep into rehearsals on a manufacturing of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Useless.”
“Doing this play, I’ve discovered I believe I like Dom much more. We haven’t really achieved a play collectively in a rehearsal room. It’s really been actually beautiful,” says Boyd.
“We’ve achieved motion pictures collectively, we’ve achieved voiceovers collectively… however that is the primary time we’ve spent eight hours a day in a room and that may be fairly worrying and pressured and Dom’s completely open to all completely different concepts and it’s simply an precise deal with to work with (him).”
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Useless” debuts at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre on the finish of the month. The play focuses on two minor characters from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
“It’s two bumbling fools actually, attempting to discover the nice themes of life that, in some unspecified time in the future throughout our existence, you’ll count on that you simply would possibly discover your self,” says Monaghan.
“Who’re we? Why are we right here? What Occurs once we die? Does our loss of life imply something? Does our life imply something? And that’s advised by two clowns, which I believe is profound.”
CTV Atlantic’s Katie Kelly interviews Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan on Jan. 12, 2024.
Boyd met Neptune’s creative director Jeremy Webb when he was within the area engaged on a earlier undertaking.
“We went for a beer and I mentioned ‘I’ve bought this loopy thought, you already know we’ve been speaking about theatre, properly what for those who and Dom come to Halifax and we create the present there?’” remembers Webb.
Webb says the prevailing rapport between Boyd and Monaghan has been nice for his or her characters.
“As you possibly can think about, these two have such a relationship already,” says Webb.
“Usually while you rehearse a play you deliver actors collectively and now we have to develop that type of friendship and relationship actually shortly on day one. Effectively, they’ve that, so I don’t must say ‘Hey guys, go for lunch, get to know one another.’”
The pair says they’ve loved the time they’ve spent in Halifax up to now.
“Billy has been an excellent journey information,” says Monaghan.
“We’d lease a automobile perhaps one week once we’re beginning to really feel like we’re actually up to the mark and drive outdoors of Halifax and see some extra of the countryside.”
“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Useless” is at Neptune from Jan. 30 to Feb. 25.
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