Elijah Wood admits he will never completely emerge from the shadow of ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
The 33-year-old star rose to worldwide prominence between 2001 and 2003 – when he appeared as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s trilogy – and despite featuring in a wide variety of roles since then, Elijah admits it’ll be tough to completely disassociate himself from the iconic character in the eyes of some film fans.
Elijah – who subsequently appeared in ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’, ‘Sin City’ and ‘Green Street’ – told the Evening Standard newspaper: "I’ve done ten years of other movies. But ‘The Lord of the Rings’ will be with me for the rest of my life, I’d be a fool not to recognise that."
Elijah also confessed the pressure of growing up in the spotlight and the collapse of his relationship with Pamela Racine – his co-star in ‘Everything is Illuminated’ – led him to seek therapy.
He explained: "I highly advocate it. It’s not an admission that there’s something wrong, it’s an admission of vulnerability.
"All these things bubbled up when I was 29. I’d just broken up with my girlfriend of five years. Someone suggested therapy and I thought, ‘I actually think I need this.’ I was an adult from a young age, I had to deal with so much familial responsibility.
"Some might say I lost my childhood. I missed out on certain things, but if anything that shaped me. By the time I really needed friends my own age, I had them."
Elijah Wood ‘will always be seen as Frodo’
