SDCC'11: Luke Evans On Playing Bard The Bowman In The Hobbit

SDCC'11: Luke Evans On Playing Bard The Bowman In The Hobbit

The Welsh actor speaks to Empire at Comic Con about playing Bard, who will by all accounts have a significantly bigger role in Peter Jackson's movies than he did in the book..

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By MarkCassidy - Jul 24, 2011 06:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: Empire

Those who have read The Hobbit will know that Bard The Bowman plays a significant role, despite not really featuring that much in the story. Well as we know Luke Evans has been cast as Bard and he speaks to Empire all about it..





Evans has had supporting roles in Clash Of The Titans and Robin Hood among other things, and will next be seen as Aramis in The Three Musketeers.



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MovieMann
MovieMann - 7/24/2011, 7:29 PM
Cant freaking wait!
TChallaTchaka
TChallaTchaka - 7/24/2011, 8:14 PM
IMO Something about him reminds me of Legolas aka Orlando Bloom. Both his demeanor and the way he talks. No wonder he is playing Bard the Bowman.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 7/25/2011, 8:20 AM
Cautiously optimistic here. I guess with two movies to fill, we'll probably see a lot of characters with larger roles than in the original story. I just hope that it doesn't change the overall story. Bard the Bowman is a good and interesting character, and it probably won't hurt things to give him a bit more to do.
Moltenman
Moltenman - 7/25/2011, 8:51 AM
TokenOfKrypton, I always imagined Bard the Bowman to be the complete opposite of Legolas. Orlando Bloom is a can't act pretty boy gobshite ( I thought Legolas was the least interesting character in the Fellowship ) while Bard was supposed to be a strong silent type of character. I wonder if he hadn't already used Sean Bean for Boromir he would have cast him as Bard. In my opinion a much better fit for the character.
Moltenman
Moltenman - 7/25/2011, 8:54 AM
comicb00kguy. What more do you want him to do? he killed the dragon and helped lead the armies to recover compensation from the dwarves and he fought in the battle of the five armies. I suppose we could see more of what happened to him after the battle but I don't know what relevance that would have.
Fogs
Fogs - 7/25/2011, 9:02 AM
Moltenman - You might spoil people with this comment.

And Bard probably will have a bigger role, since he's important to the story.

In PJ we trust.
naterator
naterator - 7/25/2011, 9:22 AM
Im glad they are including him in this Hobbit series....one of the characters that we missed in the LOTR trilogy was Tom Bombadil.
naterator
naterator - 7/25/2011, 2:50 PM
@wittysupername....all the same he was left out of the movies.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 7/25/2011, 4:00 PM
Moltenman: I'm aware of what Bard did in the story. I'm talking "more to do" in the sense of fleshing the character out a little more, not in finding new big things for him to accomplish. We're going to probably see a fair amount of padding of things so Jackson can get two three hour movies from a story that could probably be served just fine in one. All I'm saying is that I don't mind them doing that padding as long as it doesn't change the major events of the story.
headlopper
headlopper - 7/25/2011, 4:22 PM
"Black arrow you've never failed me, and I've always recovered you.I've had you from my father,and he from of old.If ever you've been forged from the true king under the mountain, go now and speed well!"- Bard of Laketown.
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