Guys, congratulations on the show.
Thank you.
Do you guys remember the first time you saw or read the rings where you were?
Were you at school or did you see it in the cinema?
I read I read it to my daughter when she was little, and I'd read it
before that, and I read it two more times since being in the show.
So read is a lot.
I got about halfway through with my daughter and said, How long is this?
And she was four. So no, I,
I spent a long time in this world, so it was great to be part of it.
So it's a huge show as well.
I mean, there's a lot of CGI, but it's a very practical show.
So what did that help you guys when you step into the world
and that you're really stepping into that world
rather than being surrounded by green screens?
Yeah, very much so.
I think even, you know, we were saying earlier that even even
when we did have green screen, so much of it was practical
because the crew were just so amazing at making sure that everything was
was set up for us, that we didn't have to imagine too much.
It was that we could just react.
So I think that was
really amazing, actually. And,
and also a lot of how a lot of the world the halfwits were shot on location.
So that was also another kind of we're very fortunate to have that.
So we were in the woods, we were in the trees and grass and mud.
So yeah, we got to see so much of New Zealand that
it's not even like tourist attractions because it just kind of be someone's farm.
So you got to see like really random bits of New Zealand that you never would have
even known was there.
All the drivers knew everything about the tree.
That was a kind of bird that wasn't extraordinary.
Yeah, yeah.
I get the sense from you guys as well because you're
in the in the show with quite a community that you've become quite a community.
Was that did that make it even make it easier
because of obviously you were dealing with the COVID protocols
as well as making the show that you've all become a quite close knit family now?
Yeah, very much so.
In terms of us in the foreground, it was wonderful
because we all kind of liked each other and so we tried to have dinners.
We'd go to some these were some genuine talk
and these guys would be improvising in the streets, apparently.
But my big thing was just loving hearing
the people who do background action of the players in their tent singing.
Every time we walked past, they'd be singing some song.
Yeah.
So there was a real unity on set and in between takes they'd start singing.
Yeah, I would try and we'd all join in.
Actually, it was great.
So there was a lot of love going around.
Yeah, I just spoke to some of your costars and one of them was sad about how
everyone he was trying to get everybody hyped up by chanting.
Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sounded like, oh, did he get you guys going as well?
Yeah, definitely.
There was a lot of that. Yeah. Yeah.
And obviously dealing with a huge show.
What was the hardest thing that you guys had to do?
Was there a harder scene that you had to do or did you find it?
It was quite liberating to do something like this.
This, you know, a bigger a bigger deal than you might be.
Yeah.
I mean, definitely all of those things, I think Amalgamated Together,
so many scenes that sort of a tricky practically to do with scale
or to do with what the location is or what what the set looks like.
And, you know, what is demanded of you,
but then also
what's demanded of you as an actor as well and sort of emotionally in those levels
and where that takes you.
So every day it was there was a lot, but I mean, having that sense of community
was so important and that, you know, it really did sort of help drive us.
I think we tried to watch out for each other,
you know, some things where we'd say
there was some days where we literally said, can we work on this a bit
because we want to help you to make it the way we want it?
You want it to be. Yeah.
So we'd actually start, not improvise
and not changing it, but we just try and get there together.
And it was, I felt that was a oh, never seen that on a set before.
There was a real sense of unity in terms of trying to make it the best it could be.
And I've done some
of the of sense of some of the guys had done
some of these press junkets and doing
the premiere is that sometimes when you speak to the people,
they haven't actually seen the finished product.
They've been part of it and not seen it.
And some of the guys that they've seen, have you guys seen it?
And as as everything that you've done come to fruition,
as it as it surprised you that the show has been?
Yeah, we've seen the first three episodes as a cast.
I haven't seen anything I've seen all the trailers.
I stood in Piccadilly Circus and watched three quarters of the show
on The Big Thing and haven't seen it.
I've just been once
I try to go in and try to keep finishing, where's the rest of the scene?
I'm not going.
But I do love it.
And I do think the education of the worlds.
And because we were just halfwits, we were in the woods for
all of our filming.
So to see Numenor, to see, you know, Morfydd Clark swimming
and the giant creature were kind of like, What?
Yeah, that happens.
We were just in the woods eating big apples and
watching Ishmael fighting.
Just glorious. Yeah.
So, yeah, I mean, it's.
It's all the hard work, all of those boys going training,
all of that kind of dialect work.
Yeah, I think it's paid off.
I'm so excited for you to see you like he's excited.
Like, go right.
Guys, thank you so much for your time.
Thank you so much. Thank you.