David Bowie Auditioned for Lord Of The Rings Possibly for Gandalf
As if the Lord of the Rings films weren't good enoughjust imagine them with David Bowie in them! , Dominic Monaghan, who played the hobbit Merry in the films, recalled the time he saw David Bowie coming out of a reading during his first audition for the beloved films. , "I was at the Hubbard's, which is a pretty notorious casting agency office in London, doing an audition for Lord of the Rings, and when it ended I went over and talked to John Hubbard, who was running the audition, and he said, Hey, it went really well," he told the Huffington Post. "You should wait around for 5 or 10 min. We'll give you some feedback." , He continued, "I thought, Oh, OK, cool, and I sat in the reception office. As I was reading a magazine waiting, David Bowie came in and signed his little list and went in. And I'm assuming he read for Gandalf. I can't think of anything else he would've read for it. He may have read for something else, but I'm a huge David Bowie fan, and I was lucky enough to know his son now so just seeing him in person was pretty special to me." , Bowie, who died earlier this month after courageously battling cancer for 18 months, has had his share of acting gigs, including his iconic role as Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth.