How did your parents react when you told them you got the role? Then there was news that the films were going to come out, and my mom basically went into overdrive, teaching us all about Lord the Rings and getting us to listen to the radio play of it and getting very excited, like, “The guy who played Frodo in the radio play was now playing Bilbo in the films….” So yeah, there’s a big family history of wanting to escape into Middle-earth. My dad read The Hobbit to me, and then I very proudly finished it myself when I was nine thinking that it was incredibly grown up of me because it was an old book. I was! My parents are big Lord the Rings fans.
Were you a Lord of the Rings fan before receiving the role? So even before lockdown, we did have the gift of time on this job, which is good because you think you know a lot about Tolkien, but you don’t.
We arrived months before filming and had so much time to get to know the crew, get to know our costumes, get to learn stunts, and become fit. We definitely could go deeper and deeper, but we had the gift of time anyway. I think it was really good for all of us in lockdown to have an obsession, which was Tolkien. There were tears and this feeling of huge gratitude that we were being able to do this in this time.ĭid it give you more time to research your character? That didn’t happen, so we actually got back on set to film at a point where the rest of the world was still in lockdown. We kind of expected all you guys to come out of it too. It was quite weird because we all went into lockdown, obviously, at the same time, and then New Zealand came out of it. You had to hold off on filming The Rings of Power for a while because of the pandemic, right?
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