Sean Astin, Wizard World Texas 2005

From this years Wizard World Texas Comicon, interesting panels abounded, with the sure hit being the Sean Astin Q & A. Sean was smart, interesting, and very entertaining. He told stories from just about every movie he as worked on, and we even got to see the "mysterious" Lord of the Rings fellowship tattoo he shares with the other 9 fellowship. He made us all promise not to photograph the ankle tattoo as he propped his foot up on the table, but the flashes exploded into action the second he did. It was an interesting tale of how he was tricked into showing the tattoo on national television, as the 9 fellowshipped had all promised to never allow it to be photographed. He was on E! News Live with Steve Kmetko and Steve asked to see the tattoo, saying that Ian Mckellen had shown his just the day before. Sean was surprised that Ian had shown his, but didn't want to presume he was any better than Ian, so showed everyone watching the tattoo. The next day his phone was ringing off the hook with calls from his angry friends, "What did you do!!". Of course, Sean said that "Ian showed his first". "No he didn't! You were tricked." So, Sean Astin went down in history as the first to show his "secret tattoo". At least that's the way he told it.

See him on this season of 24 starting in January. He says he was originally only going to be in about 6 episodes, however he has been talking to producers about doing more.