Lord of the Rings actor, who disappeared 9 years ago, last watched Peter Jackson’s famous trilogy before his death

It is known that among all the actors who worked on Peter Jackson’s famous trilogy, Christopher Lee was the biggest fan of The Lord of the Rings.

Interpreter of the wizard Saruman, the man who originally passed for the role of Gandalf and who even had the honor of crossing J.R.R. In his younger years, Tolkien was actually an ardent lover of the literary saga, which he read once a year. .

“We’re looking at it with the nurses.”

As recently revealed in a documentary The Life and Death of Christopher LeeDedicated to the life of the actor and broadcast on the UK channel Sky Arts, the actor’s passion for The Lord of the Rings continued until the last hours of his life.

Indeed, before his death at the age of 93 on June 7, 2015, Christopher Lee spent the last evening of his life watching one of the films of the trilogy while he was in the hospital.

“That night he said, ‘The Lord of the Rings is on, so we’re going to watch it with the nurses, I’ll explain how they made the movie,’ because he loved that movie.”said Juan Aneiros, the actor’s son-in-law, in a documentary (broadcast Article from Yahoo Movies).

“He watched The Lord of the Rings with the nurses that evening and we went home thinking he’d come back.”

Christopher Lee died that night after providing the final Lord of the Rings audio commentary for the hospital staff who attended his final moments.

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