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Elijah Wood

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
516 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And I think there was also this idea of the notion of being producers that we found quite difficult to find. which are these non-transactional producers, producers that are there for the life of a project because they believe in it and have a heart response to both the filmmaker and the material and create kind of a reality around those filmmakers to ensure that their work is protected.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And I think there was also this idea of the notion of being producers that we found quite difficult to find. which are these non-transactional producers, producers that are there for the life of a project because they believe in it and have a heart response to both the filmmaker and the material and create kind of a reality around those filmmakers to ensure that their work is protected.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And I think there was also this idea of the notion of being producers that we found quite difficult to find. which are these non-transactional producers, producers that are there for the life of a project because they believe in it and have a heart response to both the filmmaker and the material and create kind of a reality around those filmmakers to ensure that their work is protected.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

so it was just kind of like a combination of those things that we sort of started to realize that we had, uh, a similar interest in those elements. And, you know, I think one of us said, well, why don't we start a company? And it was me. Yeah. And we had no idea what we were doing, you know, um, we had no, no prior experience.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

so it was just kind of like a combination of those things that we sort of started to realize that we had, uh, a similar interest in those elements. And, you know, I think one of us said, well, why don't we start a company? And it was me. Yeah. And we had no idea what we were doing, you know, um, we had no, no prior experience.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

so it was just kind of like a combination of those things that we sort of started to realize that we had, uh, a similar interest in those elements. And, you know, I think one of us said, well, why don't we start a company? And it was me. Yeah. And we had no idea what we were doing, you know, um, we had no, no prior experience.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

Well, Elijah, I want to ask you, I mean, spoiler alert for the audience. Daniel is, uh, very heavily involved in the paranormal and has no shortage of stories. So I will be asking you a lot about that later, best assured. But Elijah, how did you become interested in this stuff? Like, have you always been or?

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

Well, Elijah, I want to ask you, I mean, spoiler alert for the audience. Daniel is, uh, very heavily involved in the paranormal and has no shortage of stories. So I will be asking you a lot about that later, best assured. But Elijah, how did you become interested in this stuff? Like, have you always been or?

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

Well, Elijah, I want to ask you, I mean, spoiler alert for the audience. Daniel is, uh, very heavily involved in the paranormal and has no shortage of stories. So I will be asking you a lot about that later, best assured. But Elijah, how did you become interested in this stuff? Like, have you always been or?

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

I mean, since I can remember, since I can remember, yeah, it probably goes back to, it probably goes back to when I was probably five or six. I have an older brother, seven years older than me. So when I was six and seven, five, six, seven, he was renting movies with his friends as like a teen. Yeah, as an early teenager. And they would more often than not be horror films.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

I mean, since I can remember, since I can remember, yeah, it probably goes back to, it probably goes back to when I was probably five or six. I have an older brother, seven years older than me. So when I was six and seven, five, six, seven, he was renting movies with his friends as like a teen. Yeah, as an early teenager. And they would more often than not be horror films.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

I mean, since I can remember, since I can remember, yeah, it probably goes back to, it probably goes back to when I was probably five or six. I have an older brother, seven years older than me. So when I was six and seven, five, six, seven, he was renting movies with his friends as like a teen. Yeah, as an early teenager. And they would more often than not be horror films.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And he would sort of sneak me into the room to allow me to watch these movies as long as I didn't tell our parents. So I was exposed to horror movies pretty early. And there was just this kind of gravitational pull towards it, partially because it's this thing you're not supposed to see. It's the forbidden fruit. It felt illicit and exciting and fun to see something I wasn't supposed to see.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And he would sort of sneak me into the room to allow me to watch these movies as long as I didn't tell our parents. So I was exposed to horror movies pretty early. And there was just this kind of gravitational pull towards it, partially because it's this thing you're not supposed to see. It's the forbidden fruit. It felt illicit and exciting and fun to see something I wasn't supposed to see.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And he would sort of sneak me into the room to allow me to watch these movies as long as I didn't tell our parents. So I was exposed to horror movies pretty early. And there was just this kind of gravitational pull towards it, partially because it's this thing you're not supposed to see. It's the forbidden fruit. It felt illicit and exciting and fun to see something I wasn't supposed to see.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And it was scary. So there's that pull. And then, you know, the older I got, the more the paranormal aspect of that became interesting to me. And some of that was through books initially. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was huge. Those books were massive for me, even Goosebumps to a degree. And then seeking out, you know, real stories. So those are obviously fictional ideas, but...

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And it was scary. So there's that pull. And then, you know, the older I got, the more the paranormal aspect of that became interesting to me. And some of that was through books initially. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was huge. Those books were massive for me, even Goosebumps to a degree. And then seeking out, you know, real stories. So those are obviously fictional ideas, but...

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

And it was scary. So there's that pull. And then, you know, the older I got, the more the paranormal aspect of that became interesting to me. And some of that was through books initially. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was huge. Those books were massive for me, even Goosebumps to a degree. And then seeking out, you know, real stories. So those are obviously fictional ideas, but...

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

certainly inspired by the paranormal. And Edgar Allan Poe, I remember also really being attracted to. I was just kind of attracted to horror and horror-adjacent things. And the paranormal is obviously a major part of that and its depiction in horror cinema. So, yeah, it was kind of since the very early days of my life, pretty early on.

Otherworld
Interview with Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah

certainly inspired by the paranormal. And Edgar Allan Poe, I remember also really being attracted to. I was just kind of attracted to horror and horror-adjacent things. And the paranormal is obviously a major part of that and its depiction in horror cinema. So, yeah, it was kind of since the very early days of my life, pretty early on.