Shakespeare, Indy, and LotR

[BroSCFischer]

My mom and I were watching the BBC production of The Merchant of Venice (1980) which features John Rhys-Davies in a minor role (I made her, I love Shakespeare). She mentions that he was in Indiana Jones. I tell her he was Gimli in Lord of the Rings.

Mom: He was Gimli?!?



SC

[DeltaSierra]

My mom and I were watching the BBC production of The Merchant of Venice (1980) which features John Rhys-Davies in a minor role (I made her, I love Shakespeare). She mentions that he was in Indiana Jones. I tell her he was Gimli in Lord of the Rings.

Mom: He was Gimli?!?



SC

What's even funnier is he's 6'1 in real life!!! That was some film editing!!!

[Tama]

LOL, yeah! I was so shocked and then I realized...OH so that's why he was alone in most of his shots in LOTR!
Perspective does WONDERS...

[Kal]

Apparently one of the hobbit actors (it's been a while since I've listened to the commentary so a little fuzzy on the details) kept saying "Indy, they're digging in the wrong place!" to him until he loomed over them and asked them, very politely but very firmly, to stop.

[morgana]

And when Mr. Rhys-Davies asks you . . . firmly . . . to do something, you do it.

[Racket_Man]

I think he was also in the American TV series Sliders as Prof Arturo

** runs off to Google to check

Yep.

[Lachrymose]

Treebeard, too!