In about two weeks, we'll be seeing the conclusion of "The Hobbit" trilogy and finally get closure from the J.R.R. Tolkien-adapted movies.
At this, Martin Freeman, who plays Bilbo Baggins, aptly said that the movie series ends with the upcoming release.
"You know, things are meant to stop. I think the more you hold on to them and think, 'No, let's keep making these films,' or, 'no, let's keep making these records,' it's unnatural," he told E! News.
"We're all meant to die. The Beatles are meant to split up, and there's meant to be three Hobbit films," he also pointed out.
Notably, the book the trilogy was based on was just a single and rather thin volume - a stark contrast to "The Lord of the Rings," which was a three-book affair that was also converted into three separate movies. One could marvel at director Peter Jackson's creativity in extending the single-book adventure to span three separate films that each runs for more than two hours each.
Given the hyperextension of a novel into a cinematic trilogy, Martin's comments would be considered appropriate and sound.
The British actor also expressed his pride in being involved in such a monumental project. "I'm very excited for people to see it and have the end to their story that they've hopefully been enjoying," he added.
The actor had previously talked about bidding the project goodbye, as well as his character's emotional travails.
"I knew it was going to be epic! And it is epic. It's still epic," Martin said, as noted by IGN. "I knew it'd be tiring and I knew it'd be exhilarating and hard sometimes. And yes, it's been all those things, really."
"I think expecting the unexpected is quite a good idea and so I wasn't thinking, 'I think it's going to be like this.' I was just open to however it's going to be. The main thing is you just know that you're going to be doing this character for a long time," he went on to say. "Much longer than you are doing most characters, and certainly on films. So it's just bedding down for that, really, and getting your head down, doing the work, doing what's necessary for that."
"He's definitely not the same person he was when he left Bag End, but at the same time he has to be," he mused about his character. "That's a conversation that Pete and I have sometimes, when I want to sort of push it over there or push it over there and he says, 'Yeah, yeah. But he's still got to be the same person.' Do you know what I mean? And of course he is. People don't literally change into another person, but I think combat and war does definitely things to people, you know."
We'll have to see that movie to get the full idea of how Bilbo changed at the tail end of such an epic adventure.
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