The actor playing Gandalf almost quit in tears because acting all alone in a green room, to portray chatting with a quaint roomful of dwarves, was not anywhere close to why he acts.
I hadn’t heard that one before. I can see his point, though. It used to be you might occasionally have to do a scene like that, usually in a sci-fi movie. But, with Peter Jackson, it would be the whole movie. Especially since he decided to use normal sized actors for the dwarves instead of, ya know, dwarves. Ron Howard did a whole movie with dwarves (Willow), so, it can be done.