Elijah Wood: The Rolling Stone Studio Live at SXSW

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Elijah Wood joins The Rolling Stone Studio with Brian Hiatt at SXSW to talk about stepping into chaos for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, where he plays a devil’s advocate with a possibly immortal edge. He breaks down how the sequel picks up seamlessly from the original, what it took to survive a set drenched in fake blood, and why this role let him lean into something darker and more playful. Elsewhere, Wood reflects on the very real possibility of returning as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, along with memories from the original films, the story behind his Elvish tattoo, and the unexpected treasures in his record collection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.2	Welcome to the Rolling Stone Studio live at South by Southwest.
0:55.8	I am so excited to be here with Elijah Wood,
1:02.5	who is in the excellent sequel to Ready or Not, called Ready or Not 2, a sequel that is actually as good as the original. Cool. I'm glad you think so. I think so, too. Yeah, which I think people
1:07.0	were, how do you even make a sequel to that movie? Yes, it's very definitive that movie, yeah. It definitively ends, but they found a way to do it. Yeah. And you have a lot of other stuff going on, too, that we'll talk about. Cool. And welcome, man. Thanks, dude. Thanks for having me. Were you a fan of this particular movie before? Very much so. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I saw it in the cinema, loved it, was very surprised by it.
1:32.7	The tone of it is such a fun balance of, you know, a horror film, but with sort of action elements.
1:39.8	It's very funny as well. It's also like a real kind of game that you're engaged in watching and sort of
1:45.1	feels like a real ride. So I just loved it. I thought Samara Weaving was a total revelation.
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