David Bowie Auditioned for 'Lord of the Rings' (He Should've Been Galadriel!)
Before he was Chahhlie on LOST, Dominic Monaghan was the intrepid and indefatigable Hobbit known as Merry in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. And on audition at Hubbard's, "a pretty notorious casting agency office in London," he rubbed elbows with a famous fellow, one David Bowie.
While waiting for notes on his own try-out, Monaghan experienced the following, as he recently told the Huffington Post:
“As I was reading a magazine waiting, David Bowie came in and signed his little list and went in. And I’m assuming he read for Gandalf. I can’t think of anything else he would’ve read for. He may have read for something else. But I’m a huge David Bowie fan, and I was lucky enough to know his son now, so just seeing him in person was pretty special to me.”
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