{"id":86576,"date":"2025-05-09T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86576\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T05:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T05:46:13","slug":"daniel-weyman-charles-edwards-charlie-vickers-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/86576\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Weyman, Charles Edwards, Charlie Vickers Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEntrenched in a world of elves, dwarves, orcs, ordained men, wizards and Harfoots, the three leading men of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/a> Season 2 couldn\u2019t be more down to Middle-earth if they tried.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tActors Charlie Vickers<\/a>, Charles Edwards<\/a> and Daniel Weyman<\/a> sat down for a chat at the Deadline Studio at Prime Experience<\/a> to talk about their experience filming the epic fantasy series. <\/p>\n

\n\tCheck out the conversation in the video, and scroll down for photos from the event.<\/p>\n

\n\tCreated by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set thousands of years before the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, unearths the fabled history during the Second Age of Middle-earth. In Season 2, Sauron (Vickers) is shunned by Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). Without loyal followers or an army, the Dark Lord is forced to rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power with the aid of the elven blacksmith Celebrimbor (Edwards), which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his twisted will.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, as friendships across the kingdoms are strained by the ripple effects of the Dark Lord\u2019s actions, the forces of good \u2014 elves, dwarves, men, Harfoots and a wizard named Gandalf (Weyman) \u2014 try to valiantly hold on to what matters to them most of all: each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe central theme of Season 2 revolves tightly around how well Sauron can narcissistically charm his way into the hearts of those around him, until, like a frog in a slow-boiling pot, the objects of his desires realize they\u2019ve been manipulated the entire time. As a result, Celebrimbor meets his untimely demise in the finale.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe storyline this season was tough,\u201d Edwards said as he talked about what it was like filming the intense torture scenes between Celebrimbor and Sauron. \u201cBut we got through it by having a great sense of fun on set. When we weren\u2019t working \u2014 and when we were working too \u2014 there was a really friendly, happy atmosphere. It was felt by not only us, but everyone who was working on that storyline. It was just Charlie and I in that story. It did feel like a bubble from the rest of the show in a way. So, everyone was very focused on it for the months that we were in shooting, and the mood off set really sustained and informed what we were doing in front of the camera.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEdwards also explained his approach to his character\u2019s final moments on screen: \u201cI appeared very little in Season 1, but the moments I was there, I was trying to set him up for the fall that I knew was coming. So, I tried to show his vanity, his pride and his ambition. He\u2019s a good being, essentially. He wants to do good. However, he has a little devil on his shoulder, which is the spirit of his grandfather, who has achieved wonderful things, and he\u2019s always trying to achieve something that he will never quite be able to do. And then [Sauron] shows up and says, \u2018No, I can help you with that.\u2019 So, his fall is through his own hubris, his own ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Vickers, Charles Edwards, Daniel Weyman at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 07, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDaniel Weyman at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 07, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Vickers at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 07, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Vickers and Charles Edwards\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCharles Edwards, Charlie Vickers, Daniel Weyman at the Deadline Hollywood Portrait Studio at Prime Experience 2025 on May 07, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Avellano for Deadline\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother thorn in the Dark Lord\u2019s side is the royal warrior elf Galadriel. The pair share a complicated relationship from the early episodes of Season 1, where Sauron, disguised as a helpless traveler, wormed his way into her heart and good graces. Upon discovering his true identity, Galadriel has to resist his strong pulls of power and corruption on behalf of her kingdom and Middle-earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the final moments of the heated battle between Galadriel and Sauron that nearly kills her, Sauron offers her a peace treaty in the form of a marriage agreement. It\u2019s an offer that she refuses, but an offer that Sauron claims is open to her any time she\u2019d like to give in. What does this complicated dynamic mean for the upcoming Season 3?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen it comes down to it, I think he sees her as a useful tool to achieve a means to an end,\u201d Vickers said. \u201cWe called it a \u2018cosmic connection\u2019 in the first season. And that\u2019s a good way to describe it because she\u2019s one of the wisest, most powerful beings in all of Middle-earth. And he has spent, when he first sees her again, a lot of time by himself hanging out with himself. So, he sees this being that he connects to on another level. And I think they have this connection that will endure for as long as time will go on in Middle-earth. In that final scene, he\u2019s trying to reopen the door a crack to see if she\u2019ll join him, but ultimately, I think that joining [would be a mistake]. He says, \u2018You could be my queen,\u2019 right? But I think she would [become] more of his assistant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter months of hiding his official role as Gandalf, originally dubbed The Stranger, from Season 1 until the Season 2 finale, Weyman is happy he can talk about taking on the iconic character openly. Does he feel pressured to emulate Ian McKellen\u2019s portrayal in the Peter Jackson trilogy?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I think the joy of the piece is that I was given a character who knew nothing at the beginning when he landed in Middle-earth. All I had to do was play each scene as it came,\u201d Weyman said. \u201cI didn\u2019t need to worry about what was coming later. [He\u2019s] not the same character, it\u2019s thousands of years before he\u2019ll get there, I\u2019m not playing that part. So, the joy has been just to work with great actors who I\u2019m put on set with in these amazing locations, work with a fantastic crew who are uber talented, wear the costume, hair and makeup and listen to the directors [and] showrunners\u2019 story, and just be on set and trust that it\u2019ll all come out. I\u2019m really pleased to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Season 3 has no official release date yet, Weyman and Vickers tease what they are excited most for fans to experience with their upcoming story arcs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTears,\u201d Weyman joked. \u201cI\u2019m excited for this plethora of possible pitfalls, errors and failings that young Gandalf can learn from. Literally anything could happen because the only way we\u2019re going to see a wise being later on is if he does some pretty horrendous accidental things and puts his foot in the wrong places and has to pick it up and learn again. So I\u2019m hoping for lots of that kind of action just so that we can see him develop and learn how he gets to be the wizard that we all love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVickers continued: \u201cI\u2019m incredibly lucky that Sauron in this time period is very specific to what he does. We get to go through so many exciting beats that I think fans will be really excited to see. I mean, he has made nearly all the rings now, but there\u2019s one more that he [needs] to finish the collection, which he\u2019s determined and has had in his mind for centuries. So, I\u2019m super excited to see him go on the journey and hopefully take over Middle-earth\u2026I\u2019m sure everything will be great for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entrenched in a world of elves, dwarves, orcs, ordained men, wizards and Harfoots, the three leading men of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,41541,41542,41543,41544,77,4095,41545,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-86576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charles-edwards","10":"tag-charlie-vickers","11":"tag-daniel-weyman","12":"tag-deadline-studio-at-prime-experience","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-prime-video","15":"tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114476297969305815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}