The Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power Cast Interview | SDCC 2024 | Morfydd Clark & MORE

what am I talking about ask me that question again can you guess who didn't Ben Walker oh my gosh you're a genius it makes all the sense I think it does it's a very American I mean but he's just like I mean he's like little Southern Southern like Daddy you know he's like I'm gonna wear this thing oh I mean he's too cool for it's it's so great to I mean it's so great to be on set with him wait as an as an actor tell me more about our I mean we it's a said and we see [Applause] people so I want to ask when you were First cast were you immediately fitted for a ring no I I didn't know who I was playing when I was cast yeah so that was way down the line I just knew I might be an elf yeah I didn't know anything you didn't know you were going to be the elf no right away or that a seon no that's a season two thing I didn't know really so if they' sized me for a ring I would have given the game away pretty quickly oh nobody's asked me that yet that's a really cool question I wasn't sized for a ring now I'm a bit upset and a little bit worried we did a little cast signing the other day and they were 3D printing the the three rings that have been made so far and I was like this is cool and I tried them on and none of them fitted none of them fit none of them fit me how I've either got to get bigger fingers or I need to get smaller fingers I got to do one of the two don't I wish no I wasn't I wasn't but I mean hopefully one day I'd love to I knew it was going to be a ring bearer yeah yeah because we finally seen the AL rings I get pretty ones yes they're stunning they are gge is it heavy well the the power that it wields is good answer uh will you steal it when you leave set who says I haven't already stolen it no absolutely not because they are militant about that stuff oh really oh yeah they are like ringbearers on set because the the the ones that they're shoot close-ups of are you know they're they're handmade they take months to make and you know it's kind of thing where like guy comes over with a pillow to take it one of a kind exactly and so I like I also don't want to chip the stone I don't want to be that guy yeah no was that not until season two no you know what I don't wear a ring in it and uh I chose not to do that um I thought well because the guy makes Rings Canon people's heads are exploding right now are they yes do they specifically say that he wears rings I just think because you know you're the the not even the ring bear but the creator of rings so yeah I think we just assume that you would have 10 Knuckles deep in all the Rings no why did you choose not to wear one I thought it was a little um I don't know I just I thought because he spends all day with them he might want to not wear them himself that's what I thought I love you've blown my mind and I really really love this cuz he yeah he gets a little yeah he loves them but I think at the end of the day he puts them away and goes you know doesn't doesn't want to wear them himself finished with his work also it's a practical thing you keep your your fingers clear for intricate work wow I also would have I clearly have no fine motor skills so we know exactly where he's going but we don't know how he gets tell me more and I think that's that's what's so exciting for me as well as a fan of the trilogy is I almost fell off my chair when I found out I was playing a seal so which they didn't tell you by the way I was auditioning for a um what was it a young Mercurial uh person with with the weight of the world on his shoulders which could be a could be almost anyone else in the branch it could be anyone um and I think um I think yeah it's it's like we know these Milestones that a seal or sort of does but but how does he get there and I think JD and Patrick have that difficult task of try to mold him and shape him and I think by almost drowning him repeatedly yeah God will you tell me what it's been like for you being one of the breakout stars that we've all fallen in love with since we met you in season that's very very kind of me to say um it's been wonderful I'm a creative artist I'm an actor ultimately and when I receive a script it's it's food for me you know and and I just get so excited to and I visualize certain things and then suddenly to have this body of support um from the incredible team that we work with including the crew the producers the show Runners of course and directors and you know and suddenly we get to bring this to life and so um to bring that to life from a place of authenticity and love and respect for a character and for a show and for the team um and to see that that feedback and that positive reception is is an honor and really really exciting um so I'm so pleased and I mean also single-handedly redefining how amazing female dwarves can be for all of us who just know you as a punchline we exactly exactly we are not just the comic relief although there is comedy and joy we we are dense and we are emotive and strong and there is there's so many layers and yeah it feels so good to kind of host that that that moment that that redefining as you so eloquently put your moment will we get more Crystal singing from you in season two you might yes maybe you have a scene in the first season where you've been captured and your cying and cutting down a tree and a lot of fans consider that to be the most tolken scene that tolken never wrote so what is it like to be playing an original character that is the most tolking character that to never wrote the eliest elf that the eliest elf that ever elfed that never eled never Ed in the boook before um I love it I mean I think I think um I think it's don't over complicate the thing um we're artists and people build up on each other's art and I think it's it speaks it's the opposite speaks directly on tol kid on how influential he is and how deep his work goes and how clear he delineated this world that I mean that was an improv that I did really yeah that was an impro I was when I was testing for the r the final six of us we went to New Zealand and when I heard that I didn't know until that point that I was playing an Alp was was auditioning for a man and then they're like actually it's a as an elf so I went yes I went to the park and I did this improv and I said I if it's an elf I have to pray over this tree I have to touch it I have to ask for forgiveness it's like cutting your mother's limb you know it really is like when you go that deep so I improvised that and it made it and yeah I mean I'm very proud of having improvised that and all like I really am however um it is the spirit of toking and I and it's it is it's it's not that I made it up out of the thin air I made it up because I understand token's work because it impacted me because our work is full and whole and yeah so it is talking it is you're channeling it he lives in all of us lives in you thank you today was the Hol AG presentation the trailers out there we now know a little bit about season two what was it like for you to get to finally see the fans reactions to everything you've been working on it's great it's it's incredible because that's why we do it right to share it with the and the people that have been The Gatekeepers of this universe forever right um we're just stepping up into the world I mean I was a talking fan before but not to the level that I am now right so it's it's incredible to share it with everyone and see people's reactions and also from a selfish perspective for us to see the trailer and stuff you know because we haven't seen that much okay if you're a deeper talking fan now how many times you read the San how many times you the unfinished I've read them both twice not one per season yeah yeah exactly not quite one per season I actually think I read them twice in the first season and then there's been a little Gap but I go back into little bits that I've put my notes on I mean it's amazing it's kind of it's just such a gift and pleasure to do this work and be able to kind of be connected to so many people um but I think also what I love about coming here is um it's how excited everyone is not to just kind of meet people who are in shows but also to meet each other you're meeting people who've been friends online for years and years and years and so it's a really special place and I'm yeah going to miss everyone smiling on the street CU it's everyone's so cheery here it's always so gorgeous cuz you you spend all this time doing the doing the stuff you know filming the stuff seeing the script doing the rehearsal afterwards you can't tell anybody and then finally when you come here for me it's a huge release because you get all these people who really care about the story and you have images that like we hadn't seen any of the stuff really yeah yeah yeah and so for us today it was been an amazing like watching the trailer is one thing but then there were behind the scenes stuff about the Rings forging there were things where I was like holy moly that's extraordinary you know so it's been really fun it was amazing the trailer is so wonderful cuz also we don't get to see what anyone else films yeah um it's so separate and so it's so nice to see all of the components come together and I just think it looks really cool it looks really like dark and Moody but like mysterious and amazing so and I think also they've definitely like teased a lot but they've also held a lot back so there's a lot to look forward to I would say yeah they've done really well uh I didn't choose to S JD chose for me to sing yes yes well like in the books um elves are singing every 30 seconds like there's there's a a breeze in the trees and like here comes a song um and so it was inevitable that we'd sing and bear is such a prolific and great composer that uh yeah um you're G to get some tunes yeah but look it's it's sharing it with us too because we didn't see any of that so it was just as exciting we were all in that Hall today we were all the audience because we hadn't seen that before yeah so it was just and when they said let's show it a second time yes we want to see it again too oh was a fabulous it's a fabulous trailer on any level it really is yeah yeah so we were very excited I mean it's lovely I I look forward to being here so much you know I just wrapped a film in Australia called The Bluff I'm a son MGM as well and I um I came straight here and it was it wasn't easy and moment I you know they're like maybe if you don't can't come don't come no I needed to be here because of that experience like I'm so grateful for the fans I'm so grateful for the love I'm grateful for the queuing I'm grateful that people are like under the sun and they come in and they give the their best energy and I want them to know that we give our best energy on set to make these characters as whole as possible for them it was so emotional because actually we're watching it with you in real time we're seeing it for the first time ourselves so suddenly you're seeing all your peers and your friends and your own work kind of come into the world and then as the icing on the cake you have this wall of support and love and excitement from you wonderful people it's just an explosion of of overwhelm um of emotions and joy and humbleness and gratefulness for for what we have it's honestly a dream come true to see so many people who are so fond of our show it's just a real blessing and I feel so grateful um that that we're here and we're able to celebrate it with everyone who who loves it I mean it's just yeah amazing so we've seen na n is be a bigger part of season to how exciting was it for you to get that artifact yeah super exciting and you know they're a mystery the Rings so we don't know what they're going to bring and the elves don't either and it's kind of and the elves don't like taking risks like that so it's quite exciting to kind of be in that territory of who knows I know she's naughty I know the last time I talked to you I asked you to talk about Gil gallage journey and whether or not it was nice pronunciation by the way you was I that girl who in El High School said didn't have any friends I definitely was and if it was G to mirror the book and you spoiled what happens to him in the book so I want to come back and ask can you describe for me what happens to you in this season in three words or less that way we can avoid spoilers I can do what I say that's for oh do what I do what I we also got idiot idiot idiot we finally got confirmation in a look at a gloss that I know has been around since the first season that's four words you're an idiot I'll never live that down saying you no I'll never live it down I can't count to three you're an actor you do what you're told it's okay yeah but I don't I went to four sorry yeah egglo sorry what was it like getting to work with a legendary weapon uh profound profound what a great word and at the end of the first season the guy that the armorer that had made it it wasn't supposed to be in one of the shots but I knew he had it in the truck and so I just without asking permission I like just go get the and so I worked it in the background of a shot and I was like yes and we all went nuts over yeah and J came with me after was like did you I said uh-huh he's like okay so you're looking out for us so is there something in this season that we should be looking out oh no she is alive and well honestly I'm just covered in mud for the whole of the Season okay I want to ask can you describe your Arc in season 2 for me in three words or less that'll help us in three words uh muddy um scary and wet no going back oh you did that so fast I'm so manipulating and um I'm just going to say evil I guess manipulating and evil yeah words or less thank you I mean I mean for me it was it was about um it was about it was about I've got two I'm just finding the third hold on it was about um hot congratulations as you are lost lost as I am Journey it was a hot loss Journey it's definitely a continuation of her journey for sure from season one but you sort of get to see different elements of her life that are being explored too um yeah so there's a lot there's there's a lot to look forward to there's a lot coming yeah there's a lot coming um traumatic um desperate okay so that's two words y um it is less hope hopeful hopeful oh wow yeah I think I think these are three words or less because there's a lot of connective little words but as deep questions of the heart o deep in season yes um power power ambition ambition vulnerability so were you H when you were cast no I was hellbrand I didn't know anything about Salon until the start of the thir episode what yeah that's what you've blown my mind I need like a second to recollect myself and reimagine the whole thing I know because it feels like you're going on a journey to a place that maybe we're not familiar with this is true unknown land yes exactly Lon Lon Lon lastly but not least because we are here at San Diego ComiCon what are you geeking out about that you're not working on so no Lord of the Rings unfortunately the thing I'm most excited to do is to walk the floor and find some new artist that's written a graphic novel that nobody's heard about and I'm gonna buy it and read it it's gonna blow my mind good answer will you be going into Scot they say I'm supposed to I don't think I'll need that I think I don't know I think people are so focused on what they love that I don't think they'll care I'm loving Robin hobb's um Magic books but loaded taste is incredible thanks I love them I don't want to finish them because I know it's not going to end well as well yeah but yeah that's what I'm loving at the moment well I've just finished the boys season four and I've seen some of them around which is very cool have youen to any of no I've just seen them from a distance walking around if I can get if I get the opportunity I will for sure we're going to look out those pictures on your Instagram yeah yeah exactly I mean I did just meet one of the actors from the boys and I love that show who did you meet I met say their name we're all kind of Milling around we're all Milling around but yeah no I I I love that show um and also Doctor Who is here too yes yeah yeah that's exciting yeah no Lord of the Rings um I'm probably geeking out on the boys it's just a good show you seen any of the cast I have I actually met him I actually met Jesse in the who plays yeah a he's amazing yeah who in the hotel we we shared the lift this morning down to down to the reception together and you r that I'm trying to make yeah he well he absolutely beat me to it I mean could listen I need to I actually haven't watched the boys and I want to watch that and I just wor with call Urban so I need to do that amazing um um I love go yes I love and I and I was waiting i' been waiting for that season two and and I know a bunch of the actors and Matt and I'm chilled with Matt and so I'm super excited about that and I'm very excited about watching Fallout as well you know and uh if there's a fourth season of or eighth season of Rick and Morty at some point I will be very excited about that as well you know so yeah yeah so yeah I mean and the list goes on everything that's yet to come I'm loving the boys yes um I'm loving that like the wheels are in motion stuff's happening and I think it's like I can feel the rumble in our industry that that stuff's coming up right and um I'm excited for that I'm excited for the explosion to come and I will be riding that wave hard