By Zack Sharf, Ellise Shafer
AFP via Getty Images It was a “Lord of the Rings” reunion at Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday night as Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson received an honorary Palme d’Or from Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in the fantasy franchise.
In his speech, Wood recalled meeting Jackson for the first time at 18 after sending in an audition video. “He had seen a VHS tape I’d made with friends in the woods of Griffith Park, and now they wanted to meet the young man who had sent it,” Wood said. “And when a little while later the call came that I was going to be Frodo Baggins, I sat down on the floor of my bedroom and I understood with the whole of my being my life had just been divided into before and after. And I know I’m far from the only person who has had their life changed by Peter Jackson.”
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