“But generally, no because I think we’re quite good. Again, I don’t really know how much I should say, but there were points where it was relevant for me to look very closely at Ian’s performance,” Freeman told Weintraub. I looked at Ian’s (performance) more when I needed to. “I’ve watched the films again, obviously in more detail before I came to this. Eventually, he cleared this up with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub of the Collider website. Still, you had to wonder if Freeman spent a lot of time studying Holm’s work in the previous films. Furthermore, Freeman more than makes this role his own as he takes Bilbo from being someone who’s just minding their own business to someone willing to risk their life to help others. Holm’s Bilbo, however, functioned more as a cameo in “The Lord of the Rings” movies as he was only in them briefly. Any actor in this position usually has to deal with a shadow hanging over them as their performance will always be compared to what came before. When it comes to portraying a character who has been played by a well-known actor in previous films, the task can seem quite daunting. He’s made a name for himself on BBC television shows like “The Office” and “Sherlock,” and he had the lead role of Arthur Dent in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” But now actor Martin Freeman gets his biggest role to date as Bilbo Baggins in “ The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” This character was previously portrayed by Ian Holm in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but Freeman now has the privilege of playing Bilbo in a movie which takes place sixty years before that trilogy’s beginning. WRITER’S NOTE: This article was written in 2012.
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