SET Magazine, het grootste filmblad in Brazilië, had een interview in New York met Sean Astin, de acteur die de hobbit Sam Gamgee speelde in The Lord of the Rings trilogie.

[eng]Question: You were highly praised over your short movie The Long and Short of It which is in The Two Towers DVD. Do you have any plans of directing something bigger?

Sean Astin: Oh, yeah! I always wanted to act and direct with the same intensity but only now I've found the way to get to directing. Right now I'm running to be the director of this US$ 100, US$130 million movie which the studio wants to release in the end of 2004 and it has a huge effect in pop culture. I got a meeting scheduled but I can't talk about it yet.

Question: Is it a comic book adaptation?

Sean Astin: You figured it out, huh?

Question: You're running for the director's chair of Fantastic Four, right?

Sean Astin: Yes.

Question: You've got some pretty heavy competition ahead of you. I heard Steven Soderbergh is interested and that he was offered the job by the studio specially because he could bring George Clooney as Reed Richards.

Sean Astin: Yeah but I'm a friend of George Clooney too (laughs). I think he would make a perfect Reed Richards.

Question: And who would be your Human Torch?

Sean Astin: Oh, he's right over there. Orlando Bloom. [/eng]