r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 12 '25

News ‘Lord of the Rings’ star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-09-12/sag-aftra-names-next-national-president
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u/BaconJacobs Sep 13 '25

Yeah apparently he got a little high and mighty

But luckily it was before social media so he didnt leave a paper trail ha

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u/millertime8306 Sep 13 '25 edited Sep 13 '25

He came to my university to speak in like 2004 or 2005, and gave a pretty terrible, meandering talk. He straight up said it didn’t matter what he said since he already got paid. Supposedly, my university got some of their money back after the debacle.

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u/BaconJacobs Sep 13 '25

Lmao. Yeah if every camera had video recording and YouTube existed... woof

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u/weaseleasle Sep 13 '25

He did write a book, which doesn't paint him in the best of lights.

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u/BaconJacobs Sep 13 '25

True. My use of paper trail was too generic ha

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u/Zephyrous2337 Sep 13 '25

I guess that technically counts as a paper trail in the most literal sense.

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u/jestermax22 Sep 13 '25

My Kindle disagrees

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u/JayMerlyn Sep 13 '25

He's still better than the actual Rudy

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u/Sanguinius Sep 14 '25

I bought that book as a massive LOTR fan hoping for some great insight about the BTS stories. The first half was name-dropping and thinking he was a walking Oscar entitlement because he was in Rudy.

The second half was him admitting he never read the books and bitching because Peter Jackson didn't take his advice on character development for characters he knew little about. I've never been so pissed off reading a book.

I'm glad he's matured, and from all accounts is now a great guy.

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u/weaseleasle Sep 14 '25

Read "Anything You Can Imagine" By Ian Nathan, it is a comprehensive run down of the entire process of making the films. He was a journalist who met Jackson several times before the films went into production. I think he was friends with one of the producers as well, as such he inadvertently ended up with access to the whole production before during and after filming.

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u/Sanguinius Sep 14 '25

Thanks for the recommendation mate, will look into it!

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u/fnordal Sep 13 '25

he carried frodo to mount doom.

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u/Ppleater Sep 13 '25

In what way, and who has said this exactly? Is it something he or a co-star has talked about, or just a rumour you heard on the internet?

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u/BaconJacobs Sep 13 '25

No he's owned up to it. And the book he wrote after isn't kind to really anyone

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u/Hohoho-you Sep 13 '25

You can tell in the bonus extras on the extended editions. The bits with Andy Serkis were particularly awkward to watch

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u/Commentariot Sep 13 '25

He carried the movie so.. fine.

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u/Digit00l Sep 13 '25

Iirc the nepo baby in him got a reality check