‘The Rings of Power’ Star Ismael Cruz Córdova Dives Deep Into Filming the Southlands Battle
02.10.2022 - 22:43
/ thewrap.com
(Spoiler alert: This article addresses plot points from the most recent episode of “Rings of Power” on Prime Video.)Humans, elves and Númenóreans came together in a fierce battle against Adar and the Orcs. Ismael Cruz Córdova, who plays the elf Arondir, said preparing for the battles in Episode 6, “Udûn,” was a lengthy process.“I was training a lot for that,” he told TheWrap. “The training was ongoing for over a year, this precise episode.
… You know that berzerker, when I battled that tall thing – the tall orc? That was maybe two or three months training because I was very involved in creating the battle as well as that fight. And I wanted to make it a specific thing. “We were going through fighting beats, and there’s always a story. It’s the moment where our hero can die,” he continued.
“[I]t was very important to show that he’s not above actually dying. I mean, elves are eternal, as long as they don’t get killed. So it was important to put that in there.”Friday’s episode was the most action-packed of the series so far, and the coming together of the characters who – until this episode – were in far off lands in Middle Earth made it all the more rewarding.“It was one of the first times that the worlds started colliding, which [was] super exciting for everyone.
But for us, as the cast, we has been living in New Zealand already by that point for like a year-and-a-half together – almost two years,” he said. “A lot of us just knew each other as friends and as neighbors. We knew that we were all doing the same show, but … we hadn’t seen each other perform.
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