Whilst the entire word agrees that there could be no one more suited to play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in the new blockbuster movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Sherlock star, Martin Freeman almost had to turn down the job, the Sun newspaper reports!
Freeman, who signed up for the third series of Sherlock earlier this month, almost lost the lead role of the infamous Bilbo Baggins due to his Sherlock contractual obligations with the BBC to play Dr Watson in the last series.
The Lord Of The Rings director, Peter Jackson, had hand-picked Freeman to play Baggins in the next Tolkien blockbuster, much to the former Office stars delight, but his joy soon turned to despair when his agent told him that he was going to have to pass up the opportunity.
Freeman revealed: “I had a call from my agent and he said ‘I’m sorry, we’re going to have to let (The Hobbit) go.’ I was gutted.”
However, to accommodate Freeman's Sherlock commitments, Jackson halted filming of the epic trilogy in New Zealand for six whole months until Freeman, and his co-star Benedict Cumberbatch, had finished filming Sherlock.
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