The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey star Richard Armitage says he was convinced the𝕴 studio must have made mistake when casting him as Thorin Oakenshield.

"I remember getting to New Zealand to shoot 👍The Hobbit and not unpacking," he told . "I genuinely thought I was going to be fired and sent home because they had made the wrong choice."

as "somebody that had doubts and that had fears," namely the fear of failing where both his father and grandfather had failed, and added that there was a "gentle side to him and a very perhaps lonely side to him."

Despite receiving mixed reviews, the Lord of the Rings prequel trilogy brought in $2.938 billion total at the global box office. Martin Freeman starred as Bilbo Baggins, with Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, Cate Blanchett as Lady Galadriel, Hugo Weaving as Lord Elrond, Lee Pace as Thrandull, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel, Andy Serkiღs as Gollum, and Benedict Cumberbatch as both Smaug and Sauron The Necromancer.

Continued Armitage: "Not in a million years would my nine-year💯-old self, reading the books, ever have imagined 𝓡that he'd be starring in the films!"

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