SPOILER ALERT: Wilfred recently ended its four season run this past week. The show ending, which was teased in the pilot, revealed that Wilfred was really a Fight Club Esque manifestation of Ryan’s (Elijah Wood) inner animal. Now the Sin City and Lord of the Rings star is opening up about the ending to the series.
Recently Elijah Wood spoke to Vulture about the Wilfred series finale:
“I think it’s appropriate that the ending is emotional rather than informational. This season became so much about Ryan’s path of discovery through so many informational pieces in regard to the cult, and it became quite a mystery. But at the end of the day, it’s not about those things, and in some ways, it’s not about the answers, and I think that’s what the resolution does best. It indicates that it wasn’t about who Wilfred was or what Wilfred was or where all that came from. It came down to the emotional resonance of what the benefit of that friendship was for Ryan, and ultimately, his own emotional progression.”
He went on further explain the ending, comparing it the famous Jimmy Stewart film, Harvey:
“It’s the, ‘Can we coexist without your manipulation and take the best parts of our relationship and allow me the freedom to move forward on my own?’ I’m a great fan of a movie called Harvey, and there is certainly a kinship with Wilfred. The resolution of Harvey is there’s a doctor in the psychiatric hospital that sees Harvey too and decides he wants to be friends with Harvey, and Elwood lets Harvey go. There’s something in that, and our resolution as well, that’s a level of acceptance and moving forward without needing him to progress. And I think that’s what’s really beautiful.”
Wood is well aware that his years will never eclipse his time as Frodo in the Lord of The Rings:
“I’m not naïve to the fact that Lord of the Rings will follow me for the rest of my life. It would be silly to hope for a time in which no one mentions it or it’s not the first reference. I get it. Those films loom so large. If people were to reference other projects, and Wilfred being one of them, that’s awesome, but I’m also not naïve.”
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