The Rings of Power Season 2 LIVE | The Lord of the Rings News LIVE | Morfydd Clark, Sam Hazeldine

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 not just it's just cuz you've you've been in it you've done it you know they 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 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 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 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 did 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 sunet it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion 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 of 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 I'm 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'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 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 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 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'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 the 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 background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone 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 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 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 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 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 into 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 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 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 said you you there's a gift that you make 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 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 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 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 world every part of there's a challenge character a 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 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 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 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 talking 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 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 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 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 readr 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 the 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 I'm 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 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 and 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 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 closer 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 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 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 of there's a challenge AAL 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 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 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 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 isal 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 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 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 ni 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 [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 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 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 Cheng 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 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 patient 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 H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately 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 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 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 show okay so aor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in 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 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 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 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 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 yeah 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 right 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 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 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 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 than 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 round I mean ten we filmed in ten 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 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 actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um not 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 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 app point of the 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 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 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 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 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 got want 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 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 yeah 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 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 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 in so we mean as 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 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 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 he was background like and so yeah those days were 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 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 long running thing going on in the back you know when you as Charlie says when you're doing 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 expence 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 for 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 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 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 cl 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 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 for every a challeng 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 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 now she's gone to stay with her friends H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk this l 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 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 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 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 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 Marv yeah no it was great 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 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 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 some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's backr 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 didn't 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 you're in 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 know it's very grounding and you know 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' 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 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 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'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 iners 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 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 it'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 do the truth 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 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 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 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 friends 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 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 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 M 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 a the real the real thing and but here they've literally built a massive cave you know and corridors and mind 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 tenie which was hot and Sandy but extraordinary place to film and uh you know up a volcano um really good land scape 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 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 I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly um no it's just cuz you've you've been in 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 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 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 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 form 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 more 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 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 some my friend's boyfriend was an orc oh that's he background like 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' 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 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 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 entire thing 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'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 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 [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 sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for 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 of 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 tempted yeah so 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'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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 yeah I've watched episode 6 like many times in season 1 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 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 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 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 be 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 somewh 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 where 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 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 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 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 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 so the 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 when 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 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 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 write to some of their strength 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 reflect 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 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 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's 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 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 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 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 temp 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 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 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 obviously 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 uh-huh 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 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 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 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 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 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 um 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 hero es 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 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 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 recognizing 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 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 seen but 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'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 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 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 show okay so a seor wakes up in a spider cave and has to fight Shob in the very first sequence but 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 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 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 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 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 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 late 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 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 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 watch 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 I get slightly bored 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 Act 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 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 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 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 and 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 or oh that's right he 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 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess in 21 who knows um but yeah it's been 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 charie 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 you 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 every every 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 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 this lately 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 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 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 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 the 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 um 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 it 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 you know 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 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 he 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 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 sad 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 sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider 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 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 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 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 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 as mid 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 character 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 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 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 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 hen 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 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 C 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 yeah no it was great it was obious days 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 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 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 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 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' expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just incredible I couldn't believe 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 buildt 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 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'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 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 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 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 right 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 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 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 a challenge character a moral choice to make going make self 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 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 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 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 celebrate it with fans for 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 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 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 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 were 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 I know what day it is we filmed this in 22 in 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 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 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 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 know 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 B um no 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 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 watched episode 6 like many times in season 1 you know there's a lot of setup bringing people to the second age of Middle Earth 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 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 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 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 for every a challeng 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 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 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 to the premiere and I was hardly I wasn't in the first episode and in the second for like 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 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 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 not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with Mar yeah no it was great was first days 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 wouldn'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 glue 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 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 I didn't know what day it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season 1 finished I guess 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 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 in other job JS 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 around I mean ten 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 imagin 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 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 out 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 [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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 it sees me 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 meet 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 two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there is a lot of secrecy involved in creating 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 per forms 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 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 you're doing other stuff it's I know it's 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 saon grabs hold of the Nar ative 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 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 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 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 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 as 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 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 like to sleep I 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 down and I was like 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 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 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 generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated at all until then I had my first day with more yeah no it was great it 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 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 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 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 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 too 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 forward 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 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 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 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 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 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 actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored all 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 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 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 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 gladu 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 I'm always quite impressed when I'm recognizing my meager human form every 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 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 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 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 CU 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 every 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 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 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 gadriel the only uh elf in this walk 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 were 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 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 really great to come back to 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 in 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 lit 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 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 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 B 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 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 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 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 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 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 no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm Cal 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 piss they're like you're not even in this man little did they know 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 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 cele it with fans 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 you yeah no it was great first 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 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 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 somewh 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 I didn't 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 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' 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 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 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 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'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 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 the 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 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 yeah that's 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 background like and so yeah those days were always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you 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 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 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 our set and the Ness 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 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 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 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 yeah I've watched episode 6 like many times in season 1 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 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 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 challeng 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 F 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 face 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 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 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 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 Ailor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 bored um not 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 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 Ed 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 San 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 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 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 a thing yeah she look 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 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 this 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 lived 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 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 MH a lot of 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 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 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 rooll 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 right 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 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 recognizing my meager human Formal always and I would use 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 now 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'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 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 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 two and he becomes a man I think by the end of it there 's 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 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 and we had a nice day nice easy day shooting and uh with Robert strange who plays glug as well we had a ni 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 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 that always just kind of lives within you it's it's lovely to have a a long running 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 round I mean ten we filmed in tenie we did a bit of set work but a lot of the stuffff 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 in 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 tempation 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 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 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 WR 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 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 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 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 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 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 four um it's just cuz you've youve 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 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 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 reading 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 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 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 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 think 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 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 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 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 um 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 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 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 dayve 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 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 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 they made to look like a the real the real thing and but here they've literally buildt 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 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 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 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 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 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 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're 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 stay with more that 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 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 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 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 to come back to 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 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 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 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 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 rewat 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 uh 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 [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 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 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 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 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 honestly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately it 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 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 yeah 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 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 to spend like a day like this and celebrate it 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 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 of you 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 gadriel is 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 was are 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bor um 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 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 sequen 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 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 [Music] joy and I didn't know much about Fancy 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 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 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 recognize in my meager human form well 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 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 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 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 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 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 you yeah no it was great what was our first day our first day what was it well 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 he 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 El 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 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 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 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 [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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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's 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 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 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 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 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 just to spend like a day like this and celebrate 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 with 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 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 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 m 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 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 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 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 G Ming 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 ills 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 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 recognizing my meager human form 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 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 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 H 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 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 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 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 what we SE 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 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 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 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 I 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 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 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 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 b 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 to 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 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 CU 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 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 two is just a real joy 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 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 always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you going 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is or is it hard to is not that 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 middlee 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 dig the 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CU 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 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 tempation 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 should okay so aor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 you look into the sky and look at the clouds see the sunrise the sun set it's just as magical as Middle Earth 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 beti 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 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 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 show 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 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 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 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 orc 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 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 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 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' 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 too 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 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 Bor um not it's just cuz you 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 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 out what really works in um this age and 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 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 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 glad you 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 sets it's just as magical as Middle Earth our real world so yeah that passion for nature is a lovely thing I 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 a 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 H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk 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 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 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 we 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 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 wasr 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 [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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 was are 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 so 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 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 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 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 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 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 or 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 not it's just cuz you've youve 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 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 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 recognize in my meager human form 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 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'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 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 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 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 uh 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 located again this time 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 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 sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is 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 b 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 for 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 er 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 say 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 Al 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 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 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've 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can 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 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 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 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 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 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 Gad 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 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 so 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'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 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 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 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 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 four um it's just because 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 let 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 in 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 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 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 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 know 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 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 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 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 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 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 offici 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 of 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 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 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 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 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 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 [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 closer 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 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 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 with and I'm recognizing my meager human form every every's a challenge 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 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 junk must yeah she look 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 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 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 sleep do the truth is everybody would use the 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 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 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 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 was 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 and so backr 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 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 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 ch 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 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 movie 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 is 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 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 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 try and 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 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 reading 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 yeah 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 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 two she's very well she's very calm no I'm saying this I'm touching wood but yeah she's calm calm 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 run which I don't think it's been seen on the on 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 sh 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 you 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 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 [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 you're being in 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 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 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 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 hly I've seen a lot of dogs around junk 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 together 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 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 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 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 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 boost to death 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 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 it in in season two they'd expanded um our set and the vastness of it was just 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 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 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 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 takes 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 they 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Greatful 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'd seen we'd met each other a few times before that we 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 was are 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 not 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 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 souron 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 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 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 recogniz in my meager human form 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 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 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 I was hardly I wasn't in the 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 over heling 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 just to spend like a day like this and celebrate it with fans for sure okay so aor wakes up in a spider cake 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 they 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 sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do is or is 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'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 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 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 well every 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 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 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 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 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 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 for sure 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'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 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 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 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 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've 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 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 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 know 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 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 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 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 we could write a song for Ben Walker um you know and so to come back and be able to you know Double Down 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 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 my 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 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 always and I would use them because you got to try things right see how it goes you can always take the things 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 Cy 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 to It's not that it's hard you know I I actually like watching it um but also I get slightly B um it's just because 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 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 [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 our eles 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 got 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 H I've seen a lot of dogs around junk lately must be a thing yeah she 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 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 ex sees me 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 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'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 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 readthrough 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 have done it once before for 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 [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 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 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 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 H I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun yeah she look 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 is it's 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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' 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 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 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 elf 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 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 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 have seen a lot of dogs around Jun May 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 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 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 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 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 he background like and so yeah those days always kind of feel really exciting and everyone's just kind of you're really boosted at B 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 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 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 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 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 rooll 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 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 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 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 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 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 was 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 cor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a challenge 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 patient 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 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 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 tolking 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 the 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 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 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'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 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 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 a 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 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 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 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 is 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 bored um 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 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 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 [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 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 chalice always and I would use them cuz 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 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 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 tol 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 in 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 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 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 things 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 uh you know double down on things it 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 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 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 recogniz in 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 tempted I would be Ted 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 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 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 I 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 come 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 Bui 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 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 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 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 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 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 lit 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 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 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 with 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 honestly 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 sleep 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 bu can you come downstairs and I was like how did you how did you know where I live so 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 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 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 intim at 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 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 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 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've 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 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 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 cuzz 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 Bor 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 sheer curiosity well do you not watch a lot of the work that you do it's or is it hard to it's NE 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 of it 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 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 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 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 closer 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 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 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 there's a challenge 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 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 H I've seen a lot of dogs around Jun May 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CU 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a challenge 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 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 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 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 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 we 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 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 not generally speaking no I wasn't intimidated 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 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 Str he 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 all these Orcs around you we're in 24 know what it is we filmed this in 22 and 23 this season season one un 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 loveely 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 auction 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 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 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 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 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 actually like watching it um but also I get slightly bored um 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 that 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 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 for 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 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 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 a challenge 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 seen 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 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 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 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 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