Lord of the Rings orc was modeled after Harvey Weinstein, Elijah Wood reveals

The actor says the Weinstein orc was intended as a message to the domineering sexual predator producer

One orc among many in the Lord of the Rings movies was designed to resemble Harvey Weinstein as a sort of fuck you" to the notorious producer, Elijah Wood, who played the hobbit Frodo in the series, told a Hollywood podcast.

It's funny," Wood told the actor Dax Shepard's podcast, Armchair Expert. This was recently spoken about because Dom [Monaghan] and Bill [Boyd, who played hobbits Merry and Pippin] ... were talking to Sean Astin [Samwise] about his first memory of getting to New Zealand [where the series was filmed].