Guys, congratulations on the show.
Thank you.
It's always quite daunting when you do any show as an actor,
but when it's something like this, is there an extra level of daunting
ness, shall we suppose, made up that word too early in the morning?
Is there an extra nature of the fact
that it's the rings and it comes with such a degree of fandom,
such a degree of history, that it made it tough?
Oh, was that any easier decision for you?
I don't know.
I think
it up my game in the sense that
the scale of the job, the scale of the imagination,
the scale of the world that you're dealing in myth making,
you know, they want to bring in kind of movie magic because,
you know, they're trying to make a feature film every single episode,
then to the
first table read and being utterly blown away by every actor,
then working with my amazing wife
and daughter being utterly blown away.
I think I think it just it just made it more and more exciting.
Not I wouldn't say the pressure built and now it's been so long and I had such
an amazing experience and just super excited for people to see it.
And having seen three episodes, I actually genuinely believe in the project.
So I genuinely think people are going to enjoy the ride
and it'll be a bit of a thing where I think it takes it's going to take
however many seasons to tell the whole story rather than,
you know, a story per season.
I think it is a long form storytelling and it's perfect
for Tolkien and it's going to be it's going to be very cool.
Yeah.
So I talked to so many actors and actresses about about this.
And sometimes I talk to you and I haven't seen it yet.
I've only seen little bits as I helped that you've seen it.
Can you just, can you as it like play in your mind to see it?
Because so many people I spoke to just don't get to see it before, before,
before they talk.
I think it's helped us immensely to see it.
I mean, we would have been absolutely happy to talk about it.
It irrespective.
But having seen it, I mean, we were completely blown away
and we were all together.
So it was it was really special.
I think like at first we were all like
laughing and cheering because it was our mates.
Like, we finally got to see the work that they'd been doing, but very quickly
forgot that it was people you knew and you just got absorbed into the story.
And then so now talking about it makes it even even better.
Yeah, it's much it's much easier to to talk because obviously what you film on
on the day,
if everything's
gone as well as it can, you believe in and you know, you're committed to and
you think you've done the best job you can.
But then to to see it and how it's cut together is a totally different thing.
And I remember just feeling this relaxation come over me as I watched it,
just thinking we're in the hands of really good storytellers.
You know, this is I mean, it's beautiful,
but also watching anybody's work, I thought it was top drawer.
And you can really see the detail of all the creatives behind,
you know, that that have gone into everybody's work is so precise
and beautiful and inspired and it was a joy to watch.
I thought, Yeah, yeah.
What are you most excited for people to to see in the show?
Is there is there a moment
that you were involved in that you can't wait for audiences to get?
They stick their teeth into. Yeah, we can't tell you that
that in the first episode I like I mean
I personally I'm about totally biased but I love the harfootreveal.
I just love that I remember shoot and I also remember shooting it so
well because it was very, very early on in the shooting schedule.
And so I just I still find that to me that's the magical
that I that I personally love as a as a fantasy fan myself.
It's just the magic of that that I love.
Yeah, I think there is. I was just trying to think about it.
There was a moment when we're such an ensemble, the harfoots
, it's, it's probably the most ensemble work I've ever done.
There's rarely a scene that's just two people.
There's always sort of six people commenting.
And there's a moment, I can't remember what episode
it is now, so I won't say what the moment is,
but it was where the entire community is sort of come together and
and we all are.
And we were all together having to do this move from one position to another.
And we had to get we had to get everybody motivated to a certain level.
And I just I was so overwhelmed
to get all these amazing New Zealand
supporting artists,
just such amazing characters who we lived with day in, day out.
You know, I've never been so close to the supporting artists, but to get them
in the spirit of the thing and to chant them up
and get everything going, and suddenly it was, it was.
I feel like a harfoot.
You could also become a harfoot.
He was like the cheerleaders cheering everyone off.
He was like, I'm sweating, so excited.
I was like, Sweet you.
Actually, this scene is about you.
So you think to come down because you're about to act.
It's the last moment.
By the time because he was so overexcited.
That's what happens with the half.
It's like we can kind of go, Oh, that was a fight.
Guys, thanks so much for your time.
I suppose
that's it. Yeah.
Get the
from all good.
Yeah. 10 minutes.
All right, guys.
Thanks for your time. Pleasure.