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Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue, Theoden's adviser who allies himself with Saruman: On his Rings role. "Saruman (Christopher Lee) got to him because he was ugly and was close to a family he couldn't belong to." What was it like to have his eyebrows shaved for the part? "I had tons of qualms about it, and my girlfriend really didn't like it. It took a good six weeks before they looked normal. But it's part of Wormtongue's look. You see the veins under his skin, and there are scabs in the wig." On the fan fellowship of the Rings. "I went to an X-Files convention (he guest-starred as a psychic serial killer), and I think X-Files was about as huge as anything I've seen. But then I went to another convention (to promote Rings) and got a standing ovation for Wormtongue, and no one had even seen it yet." What is Christopher Lee like? "This guy knows everyone on planet Earth, and he won World War II, and he is the best swordsman, and it's all true. He is a genuinely remarkable human being." Had he read the books before? "I read The Hobbit with my girlfriend's daughter, but I hadn't read the trilogy before doing the films. Which is amazing because I was a hippie in the hippie era, and it was required reading."

from USA TODAY