A Hobbit and a Wizard chat with Aleteia
Aleteia speaks with Markella Kavenaugh (Nori) and Daniel Weyman (The Stranger) about season two of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. What do they love about their characters and portraying them?
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00:00I love Nori. I love playing her and I love exploring just everything about her as a being
00:18and also the way she views the world. I think that she's a super open-minded, curious, non-judgmental
00:27individual and I really think I admire how she really stands up for others and she really
00:34wants to be there for others and I almost wish she would do that for herself but I do
00:39think that's something I really love about playing her is being able to really explore
00:48the notion of people around you being your home and how strong and how important it is
00:56to be so strong in your values and in what you believe in so I really love, I feel really
01:03grateful that this show and it's like a gift to play this role and portray this character
01:09on screen and then I also love acting alongside such brilliant actors and being able to delve
01:15into our dynamic and our characters' dynamics so it's just such a privilege and I really
01:20do love being on set and discovering more and more each day.
01:26I feel like there was such a joy in both seasons of rocking up to set and knowing that I was
01:34going to be working opposite you because I always felt like The Stranger and Nori had
01:39this weird connection the first time they met and I think that sort of mirrored how
01:45I felt about how we were on set and I think that one of the joys for me was actually playing
01:53without dialogue in the first season because it forced me to listen, really listen, there
01:58was nothing for me to do, I didn't have to come up with anything, I just had to listen
02:03and I found that that sort of coursed through my whole body and I was able to tell a story
02:08physically because I sort of opened my ears properly and I think what a great lesson for
02:14a wizard going forward who needs to experience stuff to become the true wizard and I think
02:21the relationship with Nori especially is so formative and is so, there's such pure lessons
02:32for friendship, love, honesty, truth, comfort, sensitivity that he, hopefully The Stranger,
02:40wherever he goes, whatever he does, that will remain solidly, you know, with him for
02:46his journey and it will be, that relationship will always be there and I love knowing that,
02:52I love playing that, I love that about The Stranger, yeah.