Hugo Weaving
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Hugo Weaving (born April 4, 1960) is an English-Australian actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix and as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies of films. He gained his first experience as a voice actor in the Babe films, where he played Rex the sheepdog, the titular hero's foster father. He also played V in V for Vendetta, portrayed the Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger and drag queen Anthony "Tick" Belrose/Mitzi Del Bra in the 1994 film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
In one universe, he's really an undercover agent working for Sector Seven, trying to hide the N.B.E.s from the public and covering it up by acting in fictional movies, like that thing with the jewellery or the internet that plugs into your brain. This is all, of course, to keep you from seeing the historical documentary. Or make you see it. Either way works.
| “ | ...I very rarely do something if it’s meaningless. It was meaningless to me, honestly...I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean. That sounds absolutely pathetic! I've never done anything like that, in my life. | ” |
| —Hugo Weaving, 2012 Herald Sun interview | ||
| “ | Do you ever get sick of actors that make $15 million a picture, or even $200,000 for voiceover work that took a brisk one hour and 43 minutes to complete, and then complain about their jobs? With all the problems facing our world today, do these grumbling thespians really think people reading the news actually care about trivial complaints that their job wasn’t “artistic enough” or “fulfilling enough”? | ” |
| —Michael Bay's rebuttal, 2012 Collider interview | ||
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Voice roles
Transformers (2007)
Revenge of the Fallen
- Megatron
Dark of the Moon
- Megatron
Fiction
Transformers (2007)
Sector Seven agent H. Weaving convinced S.S., M.B., R.O., and A.K. to put him in charge of the "Megaman issue." Sector Seven ARG
Notes
- In a television interview on June 13, 2007, in Australia on the Ten Network's news hour, director Michael Bay stated that Weaving had recorded his lines as Megatron in Australia while Bay directed him from the U.S. using Apple iChat, and thus, he had never actually met the actor.
- During his revelation of his return to Transformers in Revenge of the Fallen on March 4, 2009, Weaving stated that he had already recorded his dialogue, once again with Bay in Los Angeles while he was in Australia. He said that during recording he had a strange conversation where Bay implied that what they were doing was supposed to be a big secret.[1]
- He wasn't aware until told during an interview that there was a third movie in the making.[2]
- After completing his three-film deal for the Transformers franchise, Weaving had nothing nice to say about the experience. In an October, 2012 interview with the Herald Sun, he referred to his part in the series as "meaningless".[3] Michael Bay fired back in an interview with Collider, calling Weaving a "whiner" and claiming he lacked "integrity", then going on to suggest Weaving donate his millions of dollars to a charity for elephants.[4]
References
- ↑ AdelaideNow blog report on Weaving's return to Transformers.
- ↑ http://www.superherohype.com/news/transformersnews.php?id=9078
- ↑ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/movies/hugo-weaving-done-with-marvel-says-transformers-work-was-meaningless/story-e6frf9h6-1226496900161?nk=7902a75e03aa99ff659459ecf9f13471
- ↑ http://www.superherohype.com/news/173257-michael-bay-responds-to-hugo-weavings-comments-on-transformers
