You never know quite what you’re going to get when Elijah Wood shows up onscreen.
After Peter Jackson’s monumental Lord of the Rings trilogy ended, Wood could have easily spent the rest of his Hollywood career coasting on his star-making performance as Frodo Baggins. Instead, he’s spent the decades since choosing some of the most unusual and left-field roles. He was an introverted weirdo teen boy in Over the Garden Wall. He was a chrome-armored Guy in Spy Kids 3D. He talked to a dude in a mangy dog costume in Wilfred. He was the king of Reddit investigators in Yellowjackets Season 2. But his most out-there performance is almost certainly Kevin, the silent cannibal assassin named Kevin in Sin City. It’s a role Wood got through a serendipitous lunchtime chat with director Robert Rodriguez, with whom he had first worked together on The Faculty (another iconically weird movie featuring the Lord of the Rings star).
