Full Name: William Boyd
Age/Birthdate: August 28, 1968, he is 36 years old.
Height: 5'7"
Residence: Billy was born in Glasgow Scotland and is believed
to still be living there.
Parents/Family: William and Mary Boyd, both deseased :(
, and a sister Margaret.
Single?: I believe he is currently going out with a Scottish
dancer or maybe she is a singer.
Other: He was inspired by Star Wars to try acting. He left
school at 17 to work in a book-binding workshop. After six years he got sick of that and persued a career in acting. He surfs
and is a strong singer. He topped the list of Most Eligible Man in Scotland. He won a role as an astronaut by doing the best
impression of weightlessness while sitting in a chair. He loves porridge. He is currently working on a script with fellow
Hobbit Boy Dominic Monaghan that will be "funnier than a penguin playing the banjo" accoring to Dominic.
Quotes:
"To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh,
I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings..., In fact, what else would you rather do, you know? I can't actually think
of another job that I'd rather do."
"Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is
a very Scottish thing."
"I realised that it was just about Pippin and some other people!" After reading 'Lord
of the Rings' for the first time.
On being asked if he could relate to his character, Pippin: "Strangely enough, the first
time I tried to read the book I was on holiday in Florida. I dropped it in the pool my first day there. If that's not a Pippin
thing to do, I don't know what is."
(Holding a CD) "Dom recommended this for me. It's Icelandic music. They play the nose-flute..
a very difficult instrument to master!"
"And it was my birthday as well. I'd just turned 30 that day, so we had
champagne on the flight and when we got to LA, because of the time-difference, it was my birthday again! So we had more champagne!!"
(On travelling with Orlando to LA)
Question to Billy:
"Which of the other parts would you like to have played?"
Billy's
reply:
"Arwen gets really nice frocks. She also gets to lie down a lot and I quite like having a snooze. But I'd
have to kiss Viggo. I'd rather kiss a horse."
"People get Dom and I confused alot. But I never wake up in the morning and think, 'Wow!
I'm Dom!'. But, Dom wakes up every morning wishing that he was me."
