Richard Armitage, who plays Thorin Oakenshield in the JRR Tolkien/Peter Jackson-adapted &lsquo;The Hobbit&rsquo;, revealed to News.com.au the lengths it took to transform him into the King Under The Mountain. <img alt="'The Hobbit'" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/may/The-Hobbit.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 451px;" /> &#39;The Hobbit&#39;. PIc/Santa Banta &ldquo;Well it&rsquo;s my beard, which I&rsquo;m growing back in time for the next lot of filming, the hair is a wig which strangely a lot of people don&rsquo;t realise, but the forehead the eyebrows and the nose are all prosthetics,&rdquo; he said. He said that it takes about three hours to get ready - about an hour and a half for the face and 45 minutes for the hair. u00a0If they started shooting at eight o&rsquo;clock they would have to be in the chair at 4.30am.

To make a man look like a dwarf, it takes three hours in the make-up chair, ten test faces, a wig, a beard, some body padding, eight weeks of dwarf-walk training and 1.6 million dollars worth of prosthetics.

USD 1.6m worth of make up goes into making 'The Hobbit' dwarf

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