Breakfast: Ian Mune Defends Hobbit Actors

Actor and former Hobbit Ian Mune staunchly defended the actors involved in an industrial dispute with producers of the Hobbit movies

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[Kiwifrank]

Methinks Ian Mune has sussed the situation fairly well. It's interesting how Jackson declined to talk with Actors Equity - but everyone is bending over backwards to talk with Warners Bros.

We should be careful about bending over.

People who bend over tend to get rogered.

[LemmingHerda]

Grey hair, wiseman.

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Ian Mune just summed up the situation very adequately, better than anyone who has had airtime in this whole fiasco so far.

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Sometimes, the older you get, the more you stop giving a toss about being subtle (or popular) and you just say it like it is.

[AMpufnstuf]

Ian Mune played the bounder hobbit who asks "Who goes there!?" before he loses his head to a Nazgul

[haylei225]

@haylei225 The 'other country' being Australia--why on earth should they meddle with NZ's film industry success ... except for their own gain? A highly suspicious lot, who never really showed their faces.

And of course credit for this working out also goes to the NZ actors union who fought back against the apparently gullible Kelly and the Aussie outsiders. Making NZ proud!!

[haylei225]

None so blind as those who get a nugget of information and run with it! Scoring their goal only to find it was the wrong nugget all along--and they've run for a team that's not even in the country! Thank God Peter Jackson saved this film and--at least for the present--the NZ film industry. In spite of 'experts' like Mune and Kelly.

Comments here about having one's eyes opened by Mune's rambling remarks come across as 'plants'. He talks the talk that leads to nowhere. Delusions of grandeur.

[goofball21b]

god she gorgeous!

[Vonoska]

cucumber goes + #3. repeat.

[cowofthemonth]

what a annoying coot

NZ came very close to losing The Hobbit, looks like he couldn't ggive much of a shit

[TheJoschii]

hes so cool XD

looks like he trained for this interview :O

[Myrthmor]

The truth is, there's no way to know how the interaction really went. I seriously doubt that the actors said "excuse me, excuse me, umm... might we talk, please?" And I also doubt that all the actors involved in the union are trying to be greedy. Maybe Warner Brother's is overreacting. But what Peter Jackson is worried about is that they have the power to move the project, so whatever his opinion of the union, the fact is he is trying to keep the project in New Zealand- something they all want.