Rory Kinnear realises the pressure of playing Tom Bombadil
Newcomer to the franchise, Rory Kinnear has been cast as The Lord of the Rings' fan-favourite character Tom Bombadil for Season 2 of 'The Rings of Power'.
The cast and crew of ‘The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power’ were attending the Season 2 World Premiere at the BFI Southbank in London. The first three episodes of the new season launches on Prime Video on Friday August 29th, 2024. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
The cast and crew of ‘The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power’ were attending the Season 2 World Premiere at the BFI Southbank in London. The first three episodes of the new season launches on Prime Video on Friday August 29th, 2024. Report by Burtonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I've been waiting so long for you.
00:02Thank you for coming back, I appreciate it.
00:04You were clean shaven at the beginning weren't you?
00:06Thank you for your time and thank you for joining us
00:08Rings of Power because you're playing
00:10a character with quite a reputation.
00:12Were you aware
00:14of the weight of expectation
00:16on the shoulders before you joined
00:18and signed up as Tom?
00:20I knew almost nothing about it
00:22when I was offered the part and
00:24about three minutes later I was very very
00:26aware of how important it was because I went
00:28downstairs to my partner and I said
00:30who has read the books, I have not and I said
00:32I've been asked to play this part called Tom Bombadil
00:34and she almost dropped her plate and said that's my
00:36favourite part in the whole, in all of the books.
00:38So I realised then that it
00:40was a significant undertaking and that I better
00:42take it seriously. Obviously it was years ago
00:44that you signed up and you started production
00:46for season two. Have you had fans
00:48come up to you already and discuss
00:50the role that you're taking on?
00:52Well I guess it wasn't, I was revealed
00:54as being in it but I wasn't revealed as who I was being
00:56in it, only for about the last sort of
00:58month and a half, two months. So
01:00it's only sort of since then and
01:02obviously a lot of friends who know the books
01:04have been saying why didn't you tell me you
01:06were playing him?
01:08So that's been again fun and interesting to
01:10see the strength of people's feeling
01:12and yeah again
01:14a great privilege to be able to be the first person
01:16to bring him to life on screen.
01:18I know that a lot of season one took place
01:20filming in New Zealand, there were a bit
01:22a few other places in season two
01:24Can you tell me where were you shooting
01:26and how were your experiences of shooting that?
01:28So yeah, most of the interior of Tom's
01:30world was on
01:32studio in Bray
01:34but then outside was in Tenerife
01:36so we were there for about ten days
01:38last sort of Easter it was sometime
01:40and so yeah
01:42that was me and Daniel out in Tenerife
01:44wandering the sands.
01:46It is hard I know to talk about any of this
01:48without giving away too much because fans
01:50they want to know but they don't want to know at the same time
01:52so what can you tell us about your
01:54character this season which
01:56a scene, an episode, a moment
01:58which you are excited for them to see?
02:00Well I think that sort of the
02:02first meeting with the stranger
02:04nearly all of my stuff is with
02:06my storyline is with him
02:08and trying to
02:10bring him to a path of understanding and enlightenment
02:12but
02:14sort of the early domesticity of their
02:16scenes together are really fun.
02:18What did they tell you when you signed up in the OCU
02:20joining actors and cast members
02:22who were involved in season one, did they prepare
02:24you for the world which you were stepping into?
02:26What's the best piece of advice they gave you?
02:28Well JD and Patrick, the showrunners
02:30are very
02:32collaborative and encouraging and gentle
02:34guys so
02:36they were, it was a very
02:38sort of easy run in but obviously
02:40the first thing was getting the costume and the look
02:42right and
02:44obviously they cared deeply about that and
02:46there were a number of different blue cloaks
02:48and a number of different yellow boots
02:50and a number of different feathers in his hat
02:52so each one had to go through a process
02:54of refinement so you were aware
02:56that you were in the hands of people who really really cared.
02:58I'm going to shamelessly
03:00soak up to you here, I feel like you're a level
03:02of British actor who should have been
03:04in Lord of the Rings already. Is this a bit of a
03:06tick box for yourself, like alright Lord of the Rings, tick
03:08what can I, what franchise will I go to next?
03:10I'm not sure
03:12I did grow up thinking that
03:14that was a box that was going
03:16to be ticked only because
03:18I hadn't read them so
03:20I didn't really know much about the world so
03:22being able to sort of be, give it
03:24a chance to A, read them but also
03:26to understand a bit more about this world
03:28and about what its lure
03:30has been for so many generations
03:32has been really rewarding as well.
03:34Thank you so much for your time and enjoy tonight as well.
03:36I really appreciate your time, thanks so much.