After making the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Peter Jackson wanted to forget everything so he could discover the films as a simple fan. And for that, he almost resorted to… hypnosis!
“When we made the Lord of the Rings movies, I always felt like the unlucky person who might never find them by surprise”declared last month Peter Jackson at the microphone of The Hollywood Reporter. “When they came out in theaters, I had been into it for five or six years. For me, it was such a shame not to be able to see them like everyone else.”
“I actually seriously considered going to see a hypnotherapist to hypnotize me, to take my mind off the movies and the work I had been doing for the previous six or seven years”continues Jackson. “I could have sat down and enjoyed them that way. I didn’t, but I spoke to British mentalist Derren Brown about it, and he said he could have done that.”
If Peter Jackson will never have seen his cult trilogy with the eyes of a lambda spectator, he can (almost) do it for the series The Rings of Power. The filmmaker is indeed not involved in the Amazon show which has just started.
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