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Billy Boyd!!	"Pippin is and individual, he has alot of spontaneity. He also sees life from a slightly different angle to most people."So too, does Scottishactor Billy Boyd, cast in the roles od Perigrin Took, affectionately known to everyone as Pippin." A close friend of Frodo Baggins and his cousin, Merry, Pippin helps the ring bearer on his fight from the shire and then chosen to be a memeber of the fellowship of the ring. "Although Pippin has never left the shire," Says Billy Boyd, "he is a Took and comes from a family that is known for ebing a bit adventurous and likely to fly off the handle and do things that other hobbits wouldn't consider to be very hobbit-like! What's more, Pippin does have a habbit of doing the wrong things at the wrong time! Although to be fair, as the story develops, we see Pippin going through all kinds of experiances and becoming more mature." Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Billy Boyd is a musician as well as an actor, playing the bass, drums and guitar and singing both baritone and tenor. He began his acting career in the theatre and is well established as one of Scotland's leading talents. His first television role was in a popular Scottish television series, Taggart. Boyd made his fist film debut playing a loan shark in the Jason Connery movie, Urban Ghost Story and was then cast for The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. "I liked Peter kackson the moment i met him," he recalls, "he was just so laid back. We were in a casting agent's office and there was Peter - dresed as usual, in shorts and without shoes - sitting on the sofa with Fran Walsh. They were both so relaxed with me, that it was easy to be relaxed with them and to open about what i wanted to bring to the character Pippin." One of the topics the director discussed with the young actorat his audition was the close relationship between Merry and Pippin. "It's not really possible," says Billy Boyd "to speak about Pippin without metioning Merry: His whole life revolves around his friends and Merry in paricular. They are just like the closest of friends so that you really can't imagine wither of them doing anoything without the other."

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