SDCC 2022 Interview: Dominic Monaghan On Moriarty The Devil's Game
Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd are together again in Moriarty: The Devil's Game. Not that they have ever spent long without each other since filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy 20 years ago, given their weekly podcast The Friendship Onion.
Moriarty: The Devil's Game, a fascinating new podcast from Treefort Media that is exclusively available on Audible, follows professor James Moriarty (Monaghan) as he struggles to recover from the murder of his fiancée, Rose Winslow. To make matters worse, he is accused of being the culprit and must turn to Sherlock Holmes for help. Boyd voices his right-hand man, Moran.
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While at San Diego Comic-Con, Screen Rant had the honor of speaking to Monaghan about his interesting in tackling a different side of James Moriarty, his enduring friendship with Billy Boyd decades after The Lord of The Rings first began filming, and whether or not he'd return to the Star Wars franchise. Watch the video above. and read the full interview below.
Screen Rant: Happy Comic-Con! How does it feel to be back?
Dominic Monaghan: It's good. Yeah, this is a happy place. I was just saying that there's a lovely energy here. Maybe for 51 weekends of the year, you're not able to wear that thing or lean into that fandom — and then for this weekend, even if it's not the fandom that you're into, you're accepting of everyone's fandom. I think that's a really beautiful, positive thing.
Did you lean into it, go to The Rings of Power experience, and be like, «What's this about?»
Dominic Monaghan: Yeah, we did explore the idea of me going to The Rings of Power. But I think the word that came back was it may be a little distracting and pull a little focus.
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