Galadriel actor Morfydd Clark passed out when she found out she was cast in Lord of the Rings
Being cast in Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power meant a lot to Morfydd Clark – so much that she passed out after discovering she landed the role. In fact, you can watch the exact moment she truly realized she was about to embark on a new adventure to Middle-earth.
Speaking to Total Film for the new issue (opens in new tab) of the magazine, featuring The Rings of Power on the cover, Clark revealed that she discovered the news just before the Toronto premiere of Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History Of David Copperfield, in which she had a key role. "And then I just passed out in the Q&A," she says with a laugh, now able to reflect more fondly on the moment. "That’s how I dealt with it!"
If you watch the below video from the event, at around the 16:25 mark, you will notice that about halfway through, Clark mysteriously leaves the stage. No one around her seems to know what's going on, but now we know: she was processing being called to lead one of the most ambitious TV shows of all time.
What’s perhaps more surprising is that Clark hadn’t even been told which character she would be playing. "Morfydd moved to New Zealand without knowing what role she was playing," says The Rings of Power executive producer Lindsey Weber. "We broke the news to her there. It was an incredible moment." Clark has gone on to play Galadriel, previously played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson's movies, though this incarnation of the character is much younger as the series takes place thousands of years before the events of those blockbusters.
"She’s so powerful," Clark says of Galadriel. "I’ve explored a certain element of her power in this season."
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