Resevoir Dog sends in this bit on the good Ian Holm (Bilbo), looks like he’ll make the perfect Hobbit!
During the audio commentry on the DVD Resurrection director Russell Mulcahy talks about actors eating on camera. He says it is always a difficult decision for actors whether to eat or not and he recalls a film he did with Ian Holm where Ian ate 23 full english breakfasts whilst trying to shoot a scene! He says “Ian’s not a big man, but he was certainly bigger at lunch time”