Elijah Wood Has His Eyes On The Prize
NYLON|April 2016

Actor-producer-DJ Elijah Wood may be on of the busiest guys in Hollywood, but he always has time to stop and listen to the music. 

Kate Williams
Elijah Wood Has His Eyes On The Prize

It would be easy to talk to Elijah Wood all day, especially in a setting like this. It’s raining in Los Angeles—the meteorological equivalent of a unicorn—and post-photo shoot, we’re sitting on a velvet couch in a house that seems built for esoteric discussions on drizzly days. There are gold polka-dot pillows, smoking candles, piles of books on every conceivable surface, and musical instruments propped on the floor.

Wood smells like cigarettes, and stuck to the lapel of his frayed cardigan is a pin emblazoned with the face of Michael Myers of Halloween slasher-film fame. The overall effect makes me forget that he is an A-list actor and producer with more than 25 years of screen credits to his name, including a starring role in the blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy. Instead, it just seems like I’m chatting up an interesting acquaintance who turns me on to something new every time I happen to run into him. “My favorite sandwich in L.A. is at Larchmont Village Wine, Spirits & Cheese,” he says. “It’s the No. 3, the soppressata salami.” He asks, “Have you seen Blue Ruin? It’s so great. Green Room is coming out soon, that’s Jeremy Saulnier’s next film.” Then he tells me that “the Floating Points record [Elaenia] is one of the best new things I’ve heard in a while.” I write it all down.

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