Actor Dominic Monaghan, center is joined by cast members and producers

OMG. That is too funny. Especially since they always joke about how people used to get them confused during the press for the first two movies. Ha. Ha. Poor Mippin.

Thanks for the links to the pictures. John Noble is almost completely unrecognizable from the movies. Amazing.

How much did I love Billy's grace and brevity after Sean's embarrassing grandstanding? I also loved Bernard Hill's little thank you to the "pyramid of folks who make possible what the actors do" speech, and John Rhys bumping Sean out of the way to introduce the mercifully brief-spoken Shea. And Billy!

I was okay with Sean's sentiment, but he should have gracefully acknowledged the first round of applause he got, and stepped aside for someone else to speak, in my opinion. "I do not doubt his heart," but "seizing the opportunity" to speak at length about other than the movie just seems thoughtless and rude.

Can I get a synopsis? What did Sean talk about instead?

I loved Billy and his kilt and his sweet thanks.

And I suppose Sean Astin warned the others -- otherwise why would Bernard Hill introduce him that way?

And I'm so so glad that they won!!!

Also -- that poster of Gandalf on the balcony while Pippin sleeps -- that's NEW FOOTAGE, isn't it?

Also, I was looking at my trilogy soundtrack cards -- first I made an all Aragorn trilogy (foamy) then I looked through the cards and realized that TRAGICALLY they did not have a Legolas insert for FotR. I also think that some of the un-released footage may be Legolas in Egypt - - because the RotK Legolas insert card appears to have pyramids in the background.

Expressed concern about runaway production.

While it's a very large concern for SAG, and I agree, the irony of him saying this while accepting an award for a film made in New Zealand with an international cast was apparently lost on him.

I pretty much tuned out what Sean was saying -- but something about internecine fighting in SAG was what I caught.

What did Sean talk about instead?

First - it was funny because Bernard Hill saw that Sean wanted to speak and said "Here comes the next President of the United States."

Then Sean went off about unions and his mom and someone else will have to re-cap because I flipped over to watch J.Depp's Inside the Actors Studio because I was embarassed knowing Sean was going to go get all political. Thankfully, I turned back in time for Billy's absolutely ADORABLE "I used to work in a factory in Glasgow and now here I am." or whatever he said that was absolutely adorable.

eta: oops - I was a little late in posting - someone already re-capped.

something like "now here I am with Clint Eastwood and Al Pacino" -- BB's adorable!

Funny SAG pic.

Billy showing some leg.