ELIJAH WOOD “WILFRED” INTERVIEW
By Abbie Bernstein

Elijah Wood stars in the half-hour dark comedy WILFRED, which airs on FX Thursdays at 10 PM. The show could hardly be more different than LORD OF THE RINGS, but there is a Down Under connection in both. Pretty much everyone knows that LORD OF THE RINGS, the three epic films that starred Wood as the questing hobbit Frodo, were filmed in New Zealand. Although WILFRED is shot in Santa Monica, California, the show has its origins in Australia, where it began life as a short film and then became a television series created by Jason Gann and Adam Zwar. The title character - played in both the old and new editions by co-creator Gann - is a dog, with the catch that Wilfred’s owner’s neighbor Ryan, played by Wood in the U.S. edition, sees and hears not a canine, but a man in a scruffy dog suit. When we first meet Ryan, he’s suicidal (albeit ineffectively), but he’s jolted out of his repressed, pushed-around despondency by Wilfred’s vitality, which is as undeniable as it is often irresponsible and gross.
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