- Title: 'The Rings of Power' brings a female story to the forefront of Middle-earth
- Date: 31st August 2022
- Summary: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATION (AUGUST 22, 2022) (Reuters) (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRODUCER, LINDSEY WEBER, SAYING: "Well, I think, you know, there are very few properties in the world that are worthy of this kind of investment and Amazon, I think, wisely knew, if you're going to try to do Middle-earth, you need to try to do it right. And this show, to feel like Middle-earth, needed to have lots of worlds, dwarven worlds, elven worlds, human worlds. It needed to have all the things at once. It needed to have locations and sweeping action and characters who aren't human which require prosthetics and some characters that need to appear be, smaller than others and others that are taller. So there are a bunch of unique properties that are really inherent to the books and I think and hope that viewers will see that all the money is on screen."
- Embargoed: 14th September 2022 18:17
- Keywords: Amazon Morfydd Clark Rings of Power The Lord of the Rings
- Location: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS; CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- City: UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS; CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Television,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA008165430082022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Morfydd Clark stars in the new series "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" as Galadriel, an Elven warrior who wishes to stop the evil returning to the fantasy world of Middle-earth.
The series, one of the most expensive ever made, will arrive on Amazon.com Inc's Prime Video on Friday (September 2), with new episodes based on the appendices of the original J.R.R. Tolkien novels airing weekly.
Clark said her role as Galadriel gave her the opportunity to explore stunts that show off the power of her character behind the backdrop of a historically male-dominated society.
"Gender just isn't the same in Middle-earth in that I'm playing a character who can physically take down any man around her," Clark said during an interview. "It was really interesting to try to embody someone with a huge amount of physical strength."
Co-executive producer Patrick McKay said Tolkien has had "some of the greatest female characters in literature" and Galadriel was one of the first characters the creators thought about for the new story.
"Imagining what her world was like and what she might have been struggling with from clues throughout the text was really a joy," McKay said.
Trystan Gravelle who plays Pharazon shared the same sentiment and said he doesn't think there's anyone more "badass on this Earth than a woman."
"To see that on screen, to see Morfydd take names and take numbers like she does, is incredible," he said.
Among others, the show stars Robert Aramayo, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Sophia Nomvete, and Nazanin Boniadi and is set during the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years prior to "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" films.
The series follows both new and seasoned characters as they face the re-emergence of evil in Middle-earth and carve out legacies that will last lifetimes.
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