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Headline: Elijah Wood defends meagre pay packets on Lord of the Rings
Caption: "Because we weren't making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next, it wasn't the sort of lucrative scenario that you could sort of rest easy for the rest of your life," Wood explained to Business Insider at the 2025 Texas Film Awards. Wood, who played Frodo Baggins, said that the film's director Peter Jackson and production company took "a real gamble" adapting JRR Tolkien's novel in 1999. One of the sacrifices was that the cast, which included Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom and Cate Blanchett, would not be granted "massive salaries".
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