![]() ![]() You know, I come from the world of low-budget horror before I got this job, and there are members of my family that haven’t seen anything I’ve done. Was that something that that you liked, that appealed to you? You mentioned earlier that you weren’t able to watch Lord of the Rings when you were younger, but I know that there what I’ve seen in this series is pretty accessible to families. I think choosing a career that isn’t always supported by your family unit, I could also relate to that, so the idea of being ignored, and her efforts not going like going unnoticed, was also something that was very familiar to me. Sure, her views are very different from her siblings and her father, and I definitely have a visceral understanding of how that can tear families apart. My character is kind of more or less the black sheep of the family. But other than that, there are political differences, there’s a schism that’s starting to happen on the island of Númenor, and it’s also reflected within the family. I like to draw that sort of superficial similarity we have. Then I actually think we’re quite similar, unfortunately. Maxim Baldry, who plays Isildur, and I were both in denial about how similar we are to our characters for a while. Were there parts of your personality that you do you identify with the character at all? That lack of attention leaves her kind of vulnerable to attention from other sources that may or may not be good. But because my character is more capable and not threatening to run away, she kind of gets overlooked by him. They have a father, who’s a very famous character in the lore, Elendil, played by Lloyd Owen, and he’s kind of stoic character who’s also trying to keep the family together. My character has thrown herself into work and balancing her own ambition with trying to keep her family together, trying to keep her brother from running away as well. Isildur is kind of starting to reject sort of ideas of societal norms and duty and things like that, and he’s sort of toying with the idea of also running away. And all three siblings have kind of dealt with that loss in different ways. There is a middle brother, Anárion, who’s run away to the western shores of the island. ![]() Tell me a little bit about your character, as much as you can reveal about her. I guess my response to that was facing the fear of that head on and looking at the stuff is probably the scariest to look at during filming. So that’s been kind of fascinating to me. It reminded me kind of college, of people arguing about literature or whatever. It’s all very well thought out, like paragraphs. People will argue certain points of the lore or things that have been leaked about the show. But it is also kind of cool because a lot of it is like a discussion. You have to have a thick skin when you’re reading that stuff. He’s really nice guy and he does a really good job moderating. There’s one that the moderator, he goes by this screenname VarkingRunesong, I met him actually in LA last month. I spent a lot of time on the Reddit threads, for better or for worse. But then the seriousness of the fan base starts to set in. So, I, in relation to some of the other members who were of the cast, who were very intense about Tolkien, I was newer to it but had some exposure. So, getting the job was surreal, and I hadn’t seen the movies until maybe right before I was hired. Then when I was 10, I went to a performing arts school, we did a musical production of “The Hobbit” and I played a dwarf. I sort of cobbled the story together orally from my neighbors. But everyone in my neighborhood had seen them. It’s funny because when the movies came out, my childhood was quite censored, so I wasn’t allowed to watch them. What was your first thought of jumping into something like this, something with the already established fan base of legions of fans? In a recent interview with Reel Faith’s DeWayne Hamby, she explained her journey to Middle-earth and what viewers can expect from Eärien. Although a relative newcomer to the “The Lord of the Rings,” she dove right in to immerse herself in the fanbase through online communities. Actress Ema Horvath plays Eärien, daughter of Lord Elendil of Andúnië, who first appears in episode three. ![]()
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