Morfydd Clark & Sam Hazeldine Talk Rings of Power S2!

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00:00Guys, it's lovely to see you.

00:01Nice to see you.

00:02I am so happy that I've just met your dog, for the people that are tuning in,

00:06I've just met your lovely dog, Mattie.

00:09I love that she's here, was that important that she was here to support you today?

00:13It was important to her.

00:16I mean, it's nice to see a bit of my world, so she understands.

00:21Yeah, no, she's the light of my life.

00:23And also my sister's here, I should mention that as well.

00:25Yeah.

00:27I met your sister as well, she was lovely too.

00:29It's lovely to see Mattie being appreciated.

00:31Has Mattie seen you as glad, Joel, has she seen you in all the get up?

00:36She has actually, she didn't care about that, but do you know what,

00:38she met an orc and she treated them differently.

00:41I've got a little video, she's like...

00:44Not sure about these orc characters.

00:44Yeah, it was Robert Strange in one of his...

00:46Oh, well, there you go.

00:47And it was like, wow, these guys are geniuses,

00:49because an animal is like, wait, what is that?

00:52Orcs freak me out, to be honest with you, so I understand that, Mattie, I get that.

00:57How did you feel when you first saw yourself in all the get up?

01:00Because that can be quite scary as well.

01:02Yeah, no, it was great, I mean, it's such a transformation.

01:06I like to think so anyway, I hope so.

01:08Yeah, you're a very handsome man.

01:10Thank you, that's what I was wishing for.

01:11But you're still handsome with all that, it's so clever what they do.

01:14Yeah.

01:15How can you still look good like that?

01:17I think I feel probably more comfortable with all the prosthetics on,

01:20because it feels like you don't have to do anything,

01:24you already are that character, you know, to a large extent.

01:27So it was really, yeah, transformative and amazing.

01:31And I take it a lot of that as an actor does the job for you,

01:34because it is such a fantasy world and it's so out there,

01:38but is this like almost for actors the biggest amount of play you can do?

01:42Yeah, for sure.

01:44I mean, I just think the inner child in all of us is just having a whale of a time.

01:50It is just lovely and it's kind of...

01:52I think also what's so nice about it is that, like,

01:54I've had a few friends being kind of orcs and stuff,

01:57and lots of people in our supporting actors department

02:01are just so excited to be in this world just as we are.

02:04So yeah, it feels kind of like going to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

02:09Yeah, right.

02:09I'm like, I can't believe it.

02:10You've got a golden ticket.

02:12Yeah.

02:12I'm obsessed with Gladriel.

02:14I mean, I have been obsessed with her.

02:15She's just an icon.

02:17She's a warrior.

02:18I mean, do you kind of go about life differently now,

02:21knowing that you can do anything because you're Gladriel?

02:26I wouldn't mess with you now.

02:27Oh, nice.

02:28Even though it's funny as actors, though,

02:30like we only know how to not hurt people in fights and stuff like that.

02:35But yeah, no, it's amazing to learn all these new skills.

02:38And it's nice to feel a little bit close to her.

02:40I wish I was kind of more similar to her than I actually am.

02:44But no, it's really empowering to play someone like her.

02:48And yeah, maybe need to try and harness her a little bit more at times.

02:55It would go to my head.

02:56I would be like, if I was Gladriel, and I looked like that,

03:00and I could do that character,

03:01I would honestly walk about like I was ruling the world.

03:05If it makes you feel any better,

03:06I'd make no distinction between you and Gladriel anyway.

03:08Right, thanks, man.

03:10Charming.

03:11Very, very charming.

03:12So talk to me about the dynamic between your two characters,

03:15because it's what's going on.

03:17Yeah.

03:17Well, it's interesting.

03:19Did you want to say something?

03:20No, you go, you go.

03:20Okay.

03:21Well, you know, season two is a lot about

03:25what we're going to do about the return of Sauron.

03:27And so it's a very powerful character.

03:30And so we perhaps need to forge new alliances,

03:33or try to anyway,

03:35but there's so much bad blood between the elves and the orcs

03:39that it's a very difficult thing to kind of negotiate.

03:42And so we do meet up and discuss things.

03:47And Adar is fascinating, you know,

03:49he's doing something that hasn't been done before.

03:51He's got new ideas and stuff.

03:52So I think even though Gladriel kind of detests him,

03:56and is kind of frightened and repulsed by him,

03:58she also can't help but kind of have a certain amount

04:00of admiration for what he's attempting to do.

04:03And I think you were so kind of,

04:06for want of a better word,

04:07horrible to Adar in season one, in episode six.

04:10Yeah, she was a real mess.

04:12So you're going to annihilate,

04:13and not stop until they're all dead.

04:15So I think, I feel like anyway,

04:18that she sort of knows that that was too much,

04:22and that maybe there's no need for that.

04:24Yeah, yeah.

04:25Maybe there's a way we could work it.

04:28Yeah, but I like it when Gladriel's like,

04:30harsh, I like that.

04:31Nice.

04:32Do you look at the lore of this?

04:34Because when I was Googling stuff,

04:36there's so many fan pages,

04:38there's so many wiki pages.

04:39There's so much, and there's so many theories,

04:42about the characters.

04:42I would just get lost.

04:44Do you look at that?

04:45Because I'm quite curious.

04:46I probably would try and see all the things.

04:48Yeah, I hear some of it through my sister,

04:52which I really enjoy.

04:52I think there's something lovely

04:53about kind of putting out this character in this world.

04:56But the world is so rich,

04:58and so open for interpretation.

04:59That's a lovely part of it as well.

05:01It's also why I love doing horror,

05:02because I think that's another genre

05:04that people kind of really take it and run with it.

05:06So no, I love all that.

05:08And it's just lovely to be in something

05:10that I escaped into fantasy worlds a lot as a child,

05:14and it's lovely as an adult.

05:16And it's lovely to kind of be part of something

05:19that you're kind of being like,

05:20oh, I'm glad there's some respite

05:22from the world occasionally into Middle Earth.

05:24Yeah, so it's a real privilege, that, actually.

05:27Absolutely, it's total escapism,

05:28and that is what we need.

05:29And on that note,

05:31hopefully I'll see Mattie on the way out.

05:32Yeah, you will.

05:33Thank you for bringing her.

05:34It's made my day.

05:36Thank you so much, guys.

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