When I First Was Offered

Not A Day Goes By Where I'm Not Reminded Of Gollum By Some Person In The Street Who Asks Me To Do His Voice Or Wants To Talk To Me About Him. But Because 'the Hobbit' Has Been Talked About As A Project For Many Years, I Knew That At Some Point I'd Have To Reengage With Him.

But The First Time I Had To Stand Up And Sing With Them Was When We Did The Pre-record For The Movie And It Was That Moment Where I Sort Of Said To Myself: "s**t, Now I Actually Have To Do This And I Have To Stand Up And Do My Stars In Your Eyes Moment!" Wake Up And Make Love With Me Was The First Song And I Thought: "here We Are With Chaz And All The Boys..."

That's Why I Ended Up Going To Lancaster University, Because They Had A Visual Arts Course, And In The First Year It Was Like A Broad Visual Arts Course In Sculpture, Painting, Graphics - All Of That.

I'm Quite Contrary. If People Agree On Something, I Tend To Gravitate The Other Way By My Nature. I Don't Like To Be Told What To Do. I Think It Goes Back To School. I Like To Do Things I Want To Do And I Really Don't Like Doing What I Don't Want To Do.

I Have A Great Interest In Victorian Musical & Cabaret Performances And Weimar Artists So The References Are There, To Cabaret And Also All That Jazz And Other Films Where, Where There's A Kind Of (influential German Playwright Bertolt) Brecht-ian Approach, Almost To The Character Standing Outside Of Himself Or, In This Case, He's "self-séance-ing."