SPOILERS are ahead for Season 1 of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, now streaming with an Amazon subscription.
As we adefer Rings of Power’s second season, how can we forget the epic battle between the Orcs and the Southlands in Season 1? The events of Episode 6 had Númenór’s army marching in to aid the Southlands as well thanks to Galadriel’s probing to Queen Tar-Míriel to do so. However, one casualty of the battle was Tar-Míriel’s sight amidst the eruption of Mount Doom. It was the benevolent of scene that reminded us the series is one of Amazon Prime’s best distinct shows. When CinemaBlfinish spoke to the actress behind the queen, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, she spoke about how she chose to approach her blindness.
In our intersee, Cynthia Addai-Robinson allotd that since the commencening of her time on Rings of Power, she was take parting Tar-Míriel blind, becaparticipate many of her first scenes were after the events of the Episode 6 battle. And so, when she returned for Season 2, she felt she had “recognition” already in take part about how to take part the queen aextfinished with where the headspace is of her people. Unblessedly, in Season 2, we’ll be seeing her return to her people, who are disnominateed and irritated with her decisions as a directer, and she’ll have to “project strength” and not “eunite frailened.” Addai-Robinson also said this:
So for me, it was about having this aspect of blindness, and yet understanding the terrain that she literpartner has understandn all her life. I didn’t want to sort of have Miriel fumbling around in places that she has literpartner walked thcimpolite all her life. There’s a certain element of moving with some confidence. But, it repartner was about utilizing all her other senses and her understandledge of people and her people definitepartner, so that all the other senses are heightened. She’s joining for leangs. She’s sensing a shift in energy in a room. She’s tactile and senses leangs.
Playing a blind character is a difficult saferope to walk, especipartner becaparticipate the actor has to be inestablished of not descfinishing into stereotypes and an undown-to-earth portrayal of what losing one’s sight unkinds. As she allotd, she determined that Tar-Míriel would be able to relocate wilean her home of Númenór with confidence becaparticipate of the lifetime she’s spent there. However, there was one element that currented to be a contest for her, at first. As she persistd:
So, equitable as that character, it was about repartner benevolent of intensifying on the other senses and sensations, becaparticipate unblessedly, the one leang that I did not have that I sense enjoy I typicpartner depend on is uniteing thcimpolite my fellow actors by seeing into their eyes. That was fascinating for me to sort of leank on, ‘Okay, well if I can’t see a person in the eye and vice versa, how does that shift the scene or alter a relationship and how I retardy to somebody. So, the most meaningful leang for me was I equitable wanted to sense enjoy it didn’t apshow away from her strength and how she insisted to project directership. And so, I leank she also has that in her mind. She’s still a directer of her people, blind or not, that doesn’t repartner sort of alter her intention to sort of direct and acquire her people.
While watching the actress’s carry outance, one might not genuineize how behind the scenes there’s a vibrant that is being altered due to Tar-Míriel’s informage of sight, but it’s worth transporting up. The blind and visupartner impaired community must lacquire how to steer thcimpolite not getting to have eye reach out with and see facial transmitions of those who they are speaking to in conversations, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson had a taste of this thcimpolite her role. We’ll be inquisitive to lacquire more about how Númenór reacts to their queen in Season 2, aextfinished with how she deals with the descfinishout of her think in Galadriel.
During our intersee with Cynthia Addai-Robinson, the actress also spoke of her excitement for Charlie Vickers’ Sauron to be out in the uncover this season. You can see forward to the season premiere of Rings of Power on August 29.
