{"id":1163,"date":"2024-12-11T00:46:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:54:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T09:54:53","slug":"i-always-thought-of-myself-as-more-of-a-hobbit-morfydd-clark-on-playing-the-elfin-lead-in-the-rings-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/i-always-thought-of-myself-as-more-of-a-hobbit-morfydd-clark-on-playing-the-elfin-lead-in-the-rings-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Always Thought Of Myself As More Of A Hobbit\u2026\u201d: Morfydd Clark On Playing The Elfin Lead In The Rings Of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIA operations have been executed with less secrecy than the casting and filming of The Rings Of Power<\/em> \u2013 a fact that\u2019s not lost on its star Morfydd Clark. \u201cI got this untitled Amazon project email, which said they wanted actors with some history with Shakespeare,\u201d says the Sweden-born, Wales-raised talent, who leads the ensemble cast as Galadriel. \u201cI went to the audition, and one of the actors sitting next to me was like, \u2018Do you know what this is for?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018No?\u2019 They were like, \u2018It\u2019s Lord. Of. The. Rings<\/em>.\u2019 I had to go into the bathroom and take a moment, like, \u2018You\u2019ve been preparing for this your whole life.<\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More Morfydd Clark\u2019s Vivienne Westwood Gown Echoes Galadriel\u2019s Spectacular Armour In
\nThe Rings of Power<\/em> <\/p>\n

By Alice Newbold<\/p>\n

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When she says that, she means it: her first trip to London revolved around seeing The Hobbit: A Musical<\/em>, with her \u201cfamily of nerds\u201d introducing her to the Shire and its inhabitants as a child, making the whole process of auditioning magical for her from the beginning. (Not that she could tell her loved ones about it; cast members were prohibited from revealing their involvement in the series to anyone, even after decamping to Auckland to begin months of production.) She recalls being delighted when someone brought a giant olive tree into a warehouse \u201cto give a sense of Middle-Earth\u201d during one audition \u2013 while stepping into Lindon, the elvish city brought to life in the series premiere, moved her almost to tears. \u201cI will say, I always thought of myself as more of a hobbit, so I\u2019m pleasantly surprised to be cast as an elf,\u201d she confesses with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Several of Clark\u2019s costumes as Galadriel weighed approximately 15 kilograms.<\/p>\n

Matt Grace\/Prime Video,<\/p>\n

Tolkien fans will inevitably be divided about The Rings of Power<\/em>, but you cannot take issue with Clark\u2019s performance as a younger version of the so-called Lady of the Woods of Lothl\u00f3rien, famously embodied by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson\u2019s Oscar-winning Noughties trilogy. If Blanchett\u2019s Galadriel seems to have achieved a degree of hard-earned peace in spite of the general chaos around her, Clark\u2019s Galadriel is at a tortured crossroads. (She is a cool millennium younger, as a reminder.)<\/p>\n

For those not quite up on their Tolkien lore, The Rings Of Power<\/em> begins at the close of The Second Age, centuries after the elves vanquished the dark lord Morgoth \u2013 although not before his most loyal servant, Sauron, murders Galadriel\u2019s brother and escapes to the furthest reaches of Middle-Earth. Even as her fellow elves reach the conclusion that Sauron is gone forever, Galadriel insists on continuing her pursuit of the enemy \u2013 striking out on her own rather than joining her fellow elves in Valinor. Of course, her hunch that Morgoth\u2019s brand of evil will return proves right.<\/p>\n

Seeing the city of Lindon for the first time nearly brought Clark to tears.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Prime Video,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CIA operations have been executed with less secrecy than the casting and filming of The Rings Of Power \u2013 a fact that\u2019s not lost on its star Morfydd Clark. \u201cI got this untitled Amazon project email, which said they wanted actors with some history with Shakespeare,\u201d says the Sweden-born, Wales-raised talent, who leads the ensemble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorbx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}