Elijah Wood stuns Animal Crossing New Horizons player with turnips visit Flickr\/Gage Skidmore\/Twitter\/directedbyrianFamous Hollywood actor Elijah Wood, best known for playing Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, surprised an Animal Crossing fan by showing up at her island to hang out. On April 23, Twitter user \u2018Directedbyrian\u2019 tweeted out the price of turnips on her island at 599 bells, and instructed players to DM her for the Dodo Code. In a completely unexpected turn of events, Elijah Wood saw the tweet and reached out to the player. A screen grab of the messages shows Wood asking, \u201cWould love your Dodo Code to sell these turnips!\u201d guys I tweeted my turnip prices and elijah wood just came to my island and hung out \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d this is the best day in quarantine yet pic.twitter.com\/H3mYJWnvgR \u2014 Jessa \ud83c\udf31\ud83e\udeac (@directedbyrian) April 23, 2020 \u201cUM,\u201d the shocked player replied. \u201cOF COURSE YOU CAN.\u201d The two then proceeded to meet up in-game, with the lucky Animal Crossing player posting numerous screengrabs of her encounter with the Hollywood star. \u201cGuys, I tweeted my turnip prices and Elijah Wood just came to my island and hung out!\u201d the user exclaimed, and was quick to note how this was the \u201cbest day\u201d in quarantine she\u2019s had. i knew i could trust elijah wood with my life #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com\/80K8K6pOIN \u2014 klaudia (@bokutokashi) April 23, 2020 The photo album itself contained pictures of the actor hanging out on her island and complimenting its upkeep. \u201cYour island is beautiful!\u201d Wood said in one photo. \u201cLong live Rian Johnson,\u201d he said in another, praising the director of the controversial Star Wars film, \u2018The Last Jedi.\u2019 visit anytime #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com\/EYbwFaYHSc \u2014 Jessa \ud83c\udf31\ud83e\udeac (@directedbyrian) April 23, 2020 While Elijah Wood didn\u2019t respond to any of her tweets directly, he did \u2018like\u2019 them, indicating that they were all real and that he does, in fact, play Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a worldwide hit, breaking Nintendo Switch sales records in the process, so the fact that Elijah Wood plays the game isn\u2019t extremely surprising. Since release, the title has earned universal acclaim, and currently holds a whopping 91 critic score on the review aggregator website MetaCritic with 105 reviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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