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Actor Dominic Monaghan has confirmed the rumour that David Bowie once auditioned for a role in Lord Of The Rings. How could anyone turn him down?
Monaghan played hobbit Meriadoc 'Merry' Brandbuck in the film series, the first of which was released back in 2001. According to Brandbuck, speaking in a new interview with Huffington Post, David Bowie auditioned at the same time he did.
"I was at the Hubbard’s, which is a pretty notorious casting agency office in London," he explained, "doing an audition for Lord of the Rings... As I was reading a magazine waiting, David Bowie came in and signed his little list and went in."
He speculated, "I'm assuming he read for Gandalf. I can’t think of anything else he would’ve read for. He may have read for something else but I’m a huge David Bowie fan, and I [am] lucky enough to know his son now, so just seeing him in person was pretty special to me."
Bowie's son is film director Duncan Jones - who's responsible for Moon and Source Code. Bowie himself, of course, starred in many films before his death earlier this month - Labyrinth, The Prestige and The Man Who Fell To Earth to name but a few.
He wasn't in Lord Of The Ring though. What a shame.
