Richard Armitage Worried About Working On There And Back Again.
Richard Armitage has revealed that he was nervous about working on the Battle of the Five Armies in The Hobbit: There And Back Again.
Armitage is back on the big screen this week with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; which is the second film in the trilogy.
And while we still have a year to wait until the release of the third instalment, Armitage admits that it was this film he was most worried about working on.
Speaking to the New Zealand Herald the actor said: "The thing that was always looming for me - and I don't think this is giving too much away, maybe it is - was the Battle of the Five Armies, because it contains so much for my character.
"In terms of physical effort we were always working towards that battle [scene] because the battle had to be bigger and better, physically, than anything before.
"So that scene was always something that I was frightened of. But I was also using that with the character because, for me, it represented the beast - the dragon.
"So as Thorin is on his journey into the mountain it had that same kind of anxiety of 'I know what it's going to take to combat this and I don't think I have it'.
"So it was kind of useful to have that fear inside me."
The Desolation of Smaug comes a year after the billion dollar success of An Unexpected Journey, and is set to be one of the biggest movies of 2013.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is released 13th December.
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