Massive spoilers for Season 2, Episode 7 of "Rings of Power" are ahead. If you aren’t caught up, you can stream it with an Amazon Prime subscription. Then, make sure to watch the finale when it premieres on the 2024 TV schedule.
This season, Sauron has upped his game, and he pulled off a great deception by shielding Celebrimbor from the real world so he could make the rings of power. However, that facade dropped in Episode 7, and Charles Edwards’ elf didn’t just figure out that he was being deceived, he called Charlie Vickers’ character out for it too. So, when I got to interview the actor behind the "Lord of the Rings" villain, I had to ask him about this moment and what was going through Sauron’s mind during it.
This season, Sauron has upped his game, and he pulled off a great deception by shielding Celebrimbor from the real world so he could make the rings of power. However, that facade dropped in Episode 7, and Charles Edwards’ elf didn’t just figure out that he was being deceived, he called Charlie Vickers’ character out for it too. So, when I got to interview the actor behind the "Lord of the Rings" villain, I had to ask him about this moment and what was going through Sauron’s mind during it.
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00:00A line that really struck me in these last two episodes was when Celebrimbor kind of called him out and was like, you even deceived yourself.
00:06For sure. You see his reaction when he kills Celebrimbor. He loses complete control, and that's something that he doesn't do very often.
00:16And I think that kind of lends it to it being really powerful, because Sauron does kind of, he becomes controlled by these rings.
00:25He will stop at nothing. And Celebrimbor kind of hits a nerve when he says these things to him, because in trying to control everything and reorder and rehabilitate Middle-earth,
00:40he kind of puts himself under the spell of these things he's created, and that upsets him to no end.
00:47And Celebrimbor very intelligently can use that, particularly when he knows he has nothing left to lose.