Rings of Power Season 2 LIVE | Morfydd Clark, Sam Hazeldine Promises Epic Battles And Drama LIVE

[Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sun the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recogniz in my meager human Formal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of of newor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's back and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season 2 they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it You' not things said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form well every a chengal choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's a great it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the pist they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated and the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you a try says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um ass set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know in corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sh curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've You' been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord ings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad you being an L from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every every part there's a challenge a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temp enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must be a yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season to and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange she plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right so he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up B all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance MH no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is or is it hard to is not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge character a moral choice to make I going to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they dig the like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 uh this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and C do and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was Within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um having you learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted uh through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun sets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every's a challeng moral choice always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temped yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll Pati I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the firstever episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge toling fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Bert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in a and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location against this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of Str straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human Formal always and I would use them you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned too she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's going to tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and said saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so isor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel great grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time was are the days with Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in and other jobs that you do and yeah you then made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not it's just because you you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm Amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognized in my meager human form a chengal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be Ted yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk as lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching would but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah like that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know very grounding and you know and you look forward cuz we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they made to look like a the real the real thing and but hey here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character with necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up when I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly or um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic to go look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to disc discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated could do that I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water and Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidate I did at all until then I had my first day with more of yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day was nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah like that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we' so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut to you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values uh sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just cu you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of uh as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them like fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every's a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of new and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these ORS around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tene we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tene which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I me there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up when I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of middlee Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every a chengal choice toelf always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but know she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought her my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it's takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying sees me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go That season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make and in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences CU I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an El from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun sets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every every there's a challenge a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted that's enough then yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends honestly I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must be a yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they' expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to it's not is hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences CU I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge character a moral choice to make am I going to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying sees me are you Max and B you can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the ORS are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is fil this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curios well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um not it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form a challeng moral choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lady must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay okay did they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah think but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's amazing in and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there a chengal to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah so enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the F they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of newor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season seon and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's backround like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of re boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find my myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the lastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tene which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that yeah I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form well every there's a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be if and not I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge toling fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was a just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's so he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in know what we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah think but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know uper volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to the my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values uh sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and attracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of s and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every a challeng moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the script with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I right I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Mor yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 uhhuh this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of Liv within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground mhm a lot of stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the uction values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll beti I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these on so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence what we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv yeah no it was great was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was backround like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not just it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch on to to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every's a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode I'm in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come down downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right backround like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs hold of the narrative from Moment One and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chengal choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they dig the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice Dave for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally buildt a m massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut to you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and you know uper volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no just it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um having learn more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fancy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected I really love about being glad you being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every every there's a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge tolken fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated do the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for show okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I love loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I've watched and reat watched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Midler our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned too she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans the show okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great was first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the onlyi uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they had expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it i' definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences is cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to I've done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy you I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a love I've got from this yes um which I I I'm a may they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognize in my meager human form every a challenge AAL choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be temped I would be temped yeah so that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightm I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day was nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you'll really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to when you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do I or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I watch episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form there's a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was backround and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we' so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season 2 we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every a challeng moral choice toelf always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah that's enough then yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the fist they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of new Manor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's so backround like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives Within in you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production Val values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're moving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season 1 and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chengal choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's so he was backround like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah I think but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them like fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every's a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah that's enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends actually I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I right I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is or is it hard to it's either is hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know things say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character M um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears some hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll beti I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they think the F they like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep could the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the ORS are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch on to to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fancy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impr when I'm recognizing my meager human form CH always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends you seen a lot of dogs around junk lady must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep do that the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temp Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted death by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I Lov the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it You' not think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um so trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth read world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every chal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great was first St our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice da for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time was the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and that you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they' expanded did um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and cdos and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watch watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly poor um no it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences because I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad you being in elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temped yeah that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends you I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lady must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you'll really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you and the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sh curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episod SES like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form there a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned to she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold IIA they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah like that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of P share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I recogniz in my meager human form a chengal choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temped yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the F they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the over whelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation yes I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and um with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was the background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 what it we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um it in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean the also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just CU you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends honestly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secret involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time was the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we' so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know Double Down down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm maze they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chengal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take them thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated s the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans sure okay so aelor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of newor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the gadriel captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly four um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know things you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season to is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's where you to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but so now she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought her my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated do that the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no it wasn't wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you so yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Adriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a Volcan you know um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to I've done it once before for uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sun rise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends honestly I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge tol Keen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's background and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form well every chal choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's a it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the F they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together because we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying sees me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um ass set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you made in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in the storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge aalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must be a yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably and seon two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 what day it we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just CU you've you've been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voice so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge character a moral choice to make going to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice Dave or whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was backround like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and coridos and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was Within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um having learn Lear more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted uh um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunsets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every a challeng moral always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temped yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun maybe must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's wasr like and so yeah those days are always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values uh sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends actually I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned too she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's going to spot so it was complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so isor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy in in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um it's just cuz you you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imagin qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm Amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be temped I would be temped yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot L of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did say no I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep do the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captur and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's the background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up when I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly for um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human formal choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's where you got to disc discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll beti I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but I know she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated S I could do that I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadri the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day was nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we' so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to I've done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human Formal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge tolken fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and Bui can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of Manor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tene we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and fig fig out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun sets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah is it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but so know she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuzz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying sees me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go That season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always think thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded uh ass set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up when I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them like fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf from being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge aalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted that's enough then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Marv you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we SE we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up bite all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to it's not that is hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form there's a challenge character a moral choice to make I going to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but know she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny CU I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they think the F like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hang out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some re read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the ORS are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was backround like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 I know what day it is filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curi osity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my Meer human form every a challeng moral choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends you I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lady must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge tol Keen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what it we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight up off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every always and I would use them because you you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was complicated I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason it had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time was are the days with the just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah the made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut to you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of other the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but but also I get slightly bored um not it's just cuz you You' been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh SAR grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that work really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative quality quties and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every a challeng moral always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temped yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her seene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of around junk maybe must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the F they're like you're not even in this man little did they I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge toling fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated s the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for show okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first tired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of a few yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious the galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very free and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh he wasr like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for cuz we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly B um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know things that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that's something sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form well every chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turn two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premier I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated sleep and I could do that and the other I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so is seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidating at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you're always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we' so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values uh sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz You' you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm in my meager human form chal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of num and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went I see cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more of a you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just Galadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully lit it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know things said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah I'm it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to Le who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um I set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely play ground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen for um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure share curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've You' been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode six like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this story telling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as midd Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human every world every part of there's a challenge a moral choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted that's enough then yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must be yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for show okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he Bec becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great was our first our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days are always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive forest in inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form there's a challenge character a moral choice to make am I going to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but know she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought brought of my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying ex sees me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason it had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you a TR says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk on to different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know in corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big love playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing Magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them like fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun sets it's just as magical is Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every every's a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun must yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and and has to fight sheilo in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Mar yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange she plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you were always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's Lov to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and the jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do or is it hard to is hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just CU you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward uh um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human Formal always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah then it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had there with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they think the they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B you can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going no generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they' expanded um our set and the the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also so I get slightly Bor um not it's just cuz you you been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being glad being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun sets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chengal choice always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would Beed yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scen but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the piss they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge toling fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated SLE the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and buy can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show is going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Mar you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very ground Ing and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah you they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessar being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um no it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real joke [Music] way and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic you go and look at the see if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth in our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form chalice always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned to too she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated like to sleep and I could do that the I the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and Bui can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watch the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you you've been in it you've done it you know think say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from a moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real Joy [Music] and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunset it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I recognizing in my meager human form every's a challeng always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be yeah yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching would but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans we should okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show runner is a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look forward because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tene we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tene which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you not things say you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real Joy and and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form a chengal choice to always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's going to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premier I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and you can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this or camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day was nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before yeah um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan cuz I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so i s ort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think that you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I've watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling form format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before begin beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah enough yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebate it with fans for show okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went I see cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great was St our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was background and so yeah those days are always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these orc around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah yeah that was quite saour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called Rune which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just because you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is a you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many yeah in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're not a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough close to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form's a challenge a moral choice to make going to make selfo always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll be I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but so no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought her my the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay okay did they take the P they're like yeah you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that temptation Yes actually I did I actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the show Runners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read Cru of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that gadriel is captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's right he was backround like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 2 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah that but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk on different sets um in and other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely place ground a lot of our stuff was location again this time around I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in tenar which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure curiosity do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um no it's just cuz you've You' been in it you've done it you know think you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing Magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes is difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough Clos to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gradual being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every there's a challenge a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but I would love to have had her with me but no she's gone to stay with her friends I've seen a lot of dogs around junk must yeah she look and she's just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for show okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in Middle Earth he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more you yeah no it was great was obious our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who play glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful because um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days are always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like that always just kind of lives within you it's lovely to have a long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for because we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally build a massive cave you know and corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know the the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in ten we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan CU I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to it's nether it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know think said you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh Sauron grabs hold of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them and write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings he could write a song for Ben Walker um you know it's such a come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well season one and then also try some new things um season 2 is just a real [Music] joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possibilities and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um I need to remind myself that we're not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth be our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form Chalo always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be tempted yeah it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but know she's gone to stay with her friends hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she look and she just turned two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the f like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge tolken fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so was uh complicated the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying sees are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence where we see him so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen we'd met each other you know a few times before that and we'd had some read read throughs of scenes yeah but um I mean the first that couldn't have been the first day but we had a really nice day where um I think I think it's obvious that galadriel's captured and uh there's a scene where there's just gadriel the only uh elf in this orc camp and uh she suddenly is there and it's just this you know it's a really kind of uh it was really magical actually it felt really magical and it was just a really nice day for whatever reason we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a nice time also the days with the Orcs are just wonderful cuz um I think it's very freeing and fun to be an orc yeah and also actually on that day somewhat my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he was background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted up by all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been a long time as you can probably tell and it's a year and a half between the two yeah but it's a joy to be able to have this in our lives and to come back to it and then step away and you might do something else and but you always thinking about at least I find myself if I'm doing a different character to be like oh yeah that was quite sour on what I just did yeah yeah like know that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running thing going on in the back you know when you TR says when you're doing other stuff it's I know it's very grounding and you know and you look for cuz we all get on so well and we so enjoy what we do you know it's really great to come back to it was that in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe it you know it's you walk onto different sets um in in in other jobs that you do and yeah they're made to look like the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know in corridors and mines and and Chambers it's it's and it's beautifully late it's amazing and then cut two you know this the door is open to the studio next to you and you see a massive Forest inside there and it's just it's just wonderful it's a big big lovely playground a lot of our stuff was location again this time round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuff in in ten which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good landscape for this area that we're we're exploring called run which I don't think it's been seen on the on the screen before um how did it feel for you in the in the I mean there also to be able to my first day was within Tom's home uh and seeing the production values sort of straight off and the imagination that goes into that uh and the and how much they've understood the character as I have understood the character without necessarily being in conversation I watched the entire thing yeah I think it's well I actually watched it as a fan because I loved the movies growing up and I was if if I wasn't in it I'd definitely be watching so I sort of watched it and just was excited to see everyone else's performance no judgment but just out of like out of pure Sher curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard too it's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly Bor um it's just cuz you've you been in it you've done it you know think like you you there's a gift that you make in in when you do a role that is like you you do have to give up the magic the the viewing magic you know that experience that you're giving forward um that other actors gift you you know so it's like the the I have such a different experience with my character um that sometimes it's difficult to get like latch onto to the show not this one though this one I watched and rewatched and I I really I also enjoy watching my action sequences cuz I'm like you did that I've watched episode 6 like many times in season one you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth and introducing Our Heroes and and our villains um and season two we're now at a point of the story where we can just go uh saon grabs of the narrative from moment one and really never lets go um so uh that's a fun thing and it's also fun to have done it once before uh just in terms of as creators um sort of trying things out and figuring out what what really works in um this age in this medium in this storytelling format um and then knowing our actors better you know their voices so you can write to each of them write to some of their strengths and um Having learned more about them the fact that like Ben Walker sings we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to uh you know double down on things that worked really well he's one and then also try some new things um season two is just a real joy and I didn't know much about fantasy and I didn't know much about Lord of the Rings before beginning beginning this project uh it seems to be that sense of our world reflected and refracted um through another world and a world far enough away from our from our own uh that has like the imaginative qualities and possib and potential but enough closer to ourselves that we can see our own society and lives reflected in it I really love about being gladel being an elf and being part of Middle Earth is um the kind of sanctity and the beauty of the natural world and that's something that um need to remind myself that we're not not in Middle Earth but we are surrounded by Magic if you go and look at the sea if you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I've got from this yes um which I I I'm amazed they do because the makeup and ears and hair work that goes in is quite incredible so I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every every's a challenge character a moral choice to make always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the thing off can you go well that's what you got to discover but you can't just leave you can't I wouldn't be able to ignore it I know that I would be tempted I would be temp it's going to be a fun night I did have my dog with me but she's gone home yeah she's been staying with me for the past few days I'm not sure she'll I don't think it's quite her scene but uh I would love to have had her with me but now she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around must be a yeah she look she just turned two she's very well she's very calm look I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calmer than she was when she was a puppy when she was an absolute nightmare I mean last year it was funny cuz I brought on my friends to the premiere I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like a tiny bit but I'm in these a lot so it's okay did they take the P they're like you're not even in this man little did they know I mean it kind of felt like getting the band back together cuz we really like each other and we're all huge Tolen fans um and we like hanging out um so that was kind of the overwhelming sensation in terms of going back to the character he's in a tight spot so it was uh complicated like to sleep and I could do that the truth is everybody would use the ring we like to think we'd all throw it into the fire but it takes a a very special individual to overcome that Temptation Yes actually I did actually there was someone knocking on my front door and saying excuse me are you Max and B can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so terrifying but also you know it's wonderful to be able to to to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans should okay so Ailor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence what we see him in so we mean as we go on I think this the the season for him is a very physical one it's uh he's a fish out of water in middlee he's been left by his family by his father by all of numor and he has to learn how to survive and he has to make new friends he has to learn who to trust and he grows up immeasurably in season 2 and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating a show like the rings of power and when I was first hired now several years ago uh I watched the first cut of the first episode and then I asked the showrunners a bunch of questions about where the show's going to go that season where it's going to go The Following season and the room went icy cold they do share the scripts with me they do share their ideas for future Seasons I feel grateful that they do because it informs what I write I need to know where it it's going not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Mar yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well I don't it's hard to say because we'd seen it we'd met each other