00:00I'm playing Saruman, the White, the Wizard, and the Lord of the Rings.
00:04Wonderful role.
00:06And the Lord of the Rings is going to make cinema history.
00:09It's going to have an impact unlike anything anyone's seen.
00:12I'm totally convinced of this.
00:18My agent was talking to one of the producers of Harry Potter.
00:24And she said, oh, there's this part, because she had the script,
00:28to this part, she said, that'd be the ideal part for Christopher Lee.
00:33And the producer looked at her in horror and said, but he's already played a wizard.
00:40Now, this is why we don't have an industry.
00:43You might just as well say, we can't have him playing a London gangster
00:48because he's already played one.
00:50Whereas an American producer would have said, oh my God, yes,
00:52he's doing the Lord of the Rings, which is going to be enormous.
00:54We've got to have him.
00:56So this is the tragedy.
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