'Yellowjackets' superfan Elijah Wood has theories to share about his 'odd' character
Is there something Elijah Wood needs to tell us?
When the 42-year-old actor casually mentions he's in New Zealand, whose bucolic green pastures and mystical mountain ranges were used to portray Middle-earth in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the need to temper expectations is swift.
"No, it's not like that," he says with hearty chuckle. "I am working on a film here. It's not Tolkien-related."
More than two decades since the Peter Jackson-directed fantasy trilogy hit the big screen — and decades more since the works of J.R.R. Tolkien on which the films are based began entertaining audiences — it's remained a headline maker and coveted Hollywood franchise. In addition to Prime Video's "The Rings of Power," a series unrelated to the Jackson films and set prior to the events of the novels, Warner Bros. recently announced it was working on new movies set in Middle-earth.
Looking as refreshed and relaxed as one can in a video chat box — the intensity of his famous blue eyes immune to Zoom's video quality — Wood, who brought beloved hobbit Frodo Baggins to life in the blockbuster fantasy, has been busy portraying another character on a perilous search.
In the second season of Showtime's "Yellowjackets," about a high school girls' soccer team that gets stranded in the wilderness and the present-day lives of the survivors, Wood plays Walter Tattersall, a citizen sleuth whose interest in a missing persons case involving one of the adult Yellowjackets brings him into Misty's (Christina Ricci) orbit.
During a break from production in New
