Woodland

The buzz about his weekend at the Coachella Music Festival was all about the holographic resurrection of Tupac Shakur. Elijah Wood, a huge music buff who often DJs at local clubs, thinks it was a cool festival stunt, but the thought of regularly taking dead stars on tour is totally “fucked”.

“It brings up all sorts of ethical issues,” he says. “It is a little bit creepy. I don’t know that I’d want to show up and see John Lennon be a hologram. I think we need to be careful about how we use the image of the deceased.” Wood, 31, takes a final drag on his cigarette.

If you’ve ever seen Wood in Wilfred, one of TV’s most surreal comedies ever, you quickly realize there’s a lot more to this guy than Frodo, the life-changing role he played in the three Lord of the Rings films, and which he is reprising for The Hobbit, a two-part film. (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is set for release on December 14, and part two, The Hobbit: There and Back Again is expected to premiere in December 2013.)