“I don’t know why I was so anti-wig”: Elijah Wood revisits the viral “will you wear wigs” interview years later
More than twenty years after the notorious interview, Elijah Wood has lastly weighed in on the “Will you wear wigs?” meme.
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During a Lord of the Rings reunion panel at C2E2 2025, one fan submitted the query that launched a thousand TikToks: Does Wood put on wigs? Laughing, Wood replied, “I will.”
Elijah Wood’s “resistant” wig interview
Reflecting on the second, Wood mentioned he just lately rewatched the outdated clip together with his spouse.
“I showed my wife the video recently, and she had never seen the interview,” he begins.
“I rewatched it for the first time in a long time, and I don’t know why I was so anti-wig,” Elijah shared, including that he “was really resistant.”
Dominic Monaghan, his Lord of the Rings co-star, jumped in with a playful reminder: “I spent 18 months with you, you wore wigs every day.”
Wood defined that by that time within the interview, he knew one thing unusual was happening. “I genuinely at that point knew I was in some sort of ruse. I didn’t know what the ruse was, but I don’t know why I wasn’t more amenable,” he says within the clip.
He continues, “I watched the video, and I’m like, ‘Dude, just say you wear wigs!’”
The origin of the meme
The “wigs” second originated from a 2004 interview during which Monaghan secretly pranked Wood.
Using a disguised voice over an audio feed, Monaghan peppered Wood with a string of wierd questions, together with whether or not he wore wigs, if he deliberate to put on wigs, and when he may put on them.
Wood, unaware that his co-star was behind the weird line of questioning, gave a sequence of awkward, confused responses.
The interview appeared as a hidden Easter egg on The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition DVD—and have become web gold years later.
The web reacts
The resurfaced clip rapidly went viral on TikTok, sparking loads of reactions.
“HE WAS LYING!?!” one individual commented.
“The inflection of MAYBE was exactly the same,” one other wrote.
Someone else mentioned, “‘You wore a wig every day’ is what did me in on this one lol.”
In a Reddit thread discussing the meme, one person added some context: “It’s a little hard to tell from this clip, but they’re not in the same room, so they can only hear each other. They both worked together on The Lord of the Rings, and the one asking the questions is pranking him by disguising his voice.”
Others speculated that Wood was simply making an attempt to energy by way of. “I think he was just so thrown off by the whole interview at that point and was just trying to get through the questions,” one individual wrote.
Either approach, it’s good to see it revisited all these years later.
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