So I spent the weekend at a tiny little film festival where Ethan was a panelist, and one of the other panelists used to run marketing for New Line. In his panel he talked about the challenges of marketing LotR and stated as a fact "the only people who knew those books were nerdy men in their 50s" and that no women wanted to see the film "until we showed them Legolas"
So I went up to him afterwards and said "listen, on behalf of nerdy 50 year old women, may I just say, HEY" and he gave me a condescending little laugh and said "yeah there were 7 of you" to which I replied "uh huh we have a group chat" and he *did not realize it was a joke*.
Reader, I let him live, but it was a near thing.