The Rings Of Power team on filming the legacy series for OTT, fun on sets, and more | WION Originals

that 5minute prologue we're going make an amazing 50-hour TV show there's a lot of laughs on set acting in something is [Music] lovely I want to first ask all three of you this um it's on OT but the scale is huge you know it's mounted on such a huge scale the visuals are so stunning and I thoroughly enjoyed watching it on the big screen do you feel that you know it gets a little Li when you're creating such a huge show on OT because a lot of people consume this on tabs on mobile phones so do you feedback Well Middle Earth is vast and we feel like it deserves to be realized at the vastest scale we can so we hope people are able to see it you know uh in the most spectacular way possible and for some people that might be their phone and for people might be a really big you know inhome theater or whatever um uh but uh you know um we are very proud of the people we've worked with that have been able to realize this on such a grand fashion right um is is there any kind of pressure attached when you guys are part of something so historic and something so you know it's Legacy franchise is there any pressure at all of course yeah yeah but it's it's what it's pressure is what makes a diamond um you know so we we take the pressure as a positive thing that yeah I mean I I think being acting in something is lovely because you just get to show up and do what you're there to do which is portray a character as truthfully as as possible and then leave the semantics to kind of the other powers that be um but I I think that I try not to think about the outside uh noise and external pressure it's more just the pressure that I put myself to do as best job as I can do and really do the character Justice that's the focus I thally enjoyed a first season especially the scenes about which involved the two of you I thought it was a great friendship that you knowk you came out so so organic it it looked very organic but I also know that the show itself the story it's very intense so how do you guys like break out from it because I'm sure it was a grueling schedule and um what was it like because as actors you're performing something an character and it's tough um how do you unwind or break out from it I mean there's a lot of laugh on set we do have a very good time lots of games being played in the last tent when the setups are you know but also what's lovely is that the crews that we have the fortune of working with are so wonderful too and the atmosphere that they bring to the set um really allows for comfort and a very open and safe space um and if anything they are the people for me anyway that sort of help bring me out and I also enjoy leaving my work on the set and the scenes that I do and then I actually prefer to just completely go back to Megan in between takes or you know um just so I can rest have a little break um but but also it's really interesting I think there's something especially when you do those sort of more um intense scenes um there is a level of trauma that your body does naturally feel I think that's an actual thing and so for example in the second episode in the sandstorm um whenever I watch it I've watched it a few times now my body has a a reaction to like my breathing gets really fast and my heart pounds and I think that's because my body can remember feeling and experiencing that that whole thing um so that's a it's quite interesting I don't think it ever fully leaves you you want to add something on there no I agree I agree I mean I went to do ADR for the sandstorm and I think that and I really did it did take me back to exactly that and I think when we were filming it was so realistic they had sand and and we were on wire so we're very safe but we still felt the kind of effects of what it might have been like so yeah your body sometimes doesn't really register that it's it's F but I want to know that you know how did it come to you the Legacy show and how how did it come to you and how did you get to create it Patrick and I thought well you know if if you want to feel like Tolen it needs to feel like you know an epic that encompasses an entire age to a certain extent um and that encompasses the fate of Middle Earth and all these different groups where it's elves and dwarves and halflings and humans and and ants and and wizards and and you know as we looked around uh at what sort of you know part of the the map felt um you know sort of ripe for exploration um we thought of the beginning of the Jackson films where Cap lanche comes on and says it began with the forging of the great rings and three were made for the elves and seven for the dwarves and nine for men who above all desire power but they were all to see because one ring was forged in the fires of Mount Doom by the dark lord zon um and thought of this a couple times in but uh yeah and uh you know so we were like that 5 minute prologue we would make an amazing 50-hour Tv show uh you go back to the second age when all those stories were being told um and really build it out and so we went in and pitched that and uh you know the number of writers they were talking to went from this to this to this and then finally there were only a few left um and then finally we got the phone call that uh they wanted us to to to do well actually first we went and met with the Tolen estate and pitched it to the tolken estate which was an amazing life experience and then finally yeah we got the phone call and it was a life-changing moment I I I went and stood on top of my garage roof and kind of looked out at the Sun and just sort of felt the moment of destiny that I knew my life would never be the same is there is there a season 3 coming up um well we are deep in the creative process of of of finding it and that's kind of all I can say at this point but right now we're excited for field to see season 2 but yes we're planning 50 hours [Music]