Eddie Marsan and Morfydd Clark (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Saint Maud) have signed on to join Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (His House) in Uncle, a revenge thriller directed by Joe Marcantonio (Kindred).

Co-written by Joe Marcantonio and Owynne Dawkins, synopsis reads: After the brutal murder of their family, barely teenage Millie and her Uncle John (Dìrísù) embark on a brutal mission of revenge and retribution. But as they get closer to the people responsible, Millie must decide if she is ready to follow the bloody path of vengeance… and its violent, premature journey into adulthood.

Principal photography is set to begin in Autumn in the UK. WestEnd is handling worldwide sales.

The pic is produced by Auroral Pictures’ Rebecca Knapp (Rollin with the Nines, Popcorn) and Matthew Wakeham (Two for Joy, The Facility). Nicola Pearcey of Picnik Entertainment (Military Wives, The Almond, and the Seahorse) is executive producing.

Marsan is best known for his collaborations with Mike Leigh which earned him the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor on both Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky. He also starred in The Gentlemen, Vice, Deadpool 2, and the Sherlock Holmes franchise.

Clark is known for her film roles as Maud in Saint Maud for which she was nominated for a BAFTA, Dora Spenlow in The Personal History of David Copperfield, and in television as Mina Harker in Dracula. Most recently, she starred as Galadriel in Amazon Prime’s series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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Morfydd Clark attends the Los Angeles FYC Event for Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” at Citizen News Hollywood on May 07, 2023 in Los Angeles. You can go to the gallery to take a look and enjoy!

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A lifelong Lord of the Rings fan, the actor hopes her elven-warrior character will escape her “haze of misery” in the second season.

Morfydd Clark grew up assuming that everyone was as obsessed with The Lord of the Rings as her family was. Raised in Wales, Clark felt especially drawn to the J.R.R. Tolkien stories when she was struggling at school. “I loved to be transported from the four walls of school,” says Clark. “I’d love then coming home and thinking about all these magical things and all these possibilities.”

After leaving school at 16, she pursued a career in acting and trained at the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the Drama Centre London. After some notable work onstage and on television, she received a best-actress BAFTA nomination in 2020 for starring in the psychological horror film Saint Maud.

Then a mysterious audition for an Amazon TV series changed her life forever, when she was cast as Galadriel, the iconic elf from the Tolkien stories, previously played by Cate Blanchett in the films. The first season of Amazon’s ambitious fantasy series The Rings of Power sees a younger version of the elven warrior on a mission, convinced that the evil force Sauron—who killed her brother—has returned to Middle-earth.

Now in the middle of filming the second season in the UK, Clark spoke with Little Gold Men about her unusual journey to Galadriel, how she handles fan reactions to the show, and what we can expect from season two.

Vanity Fair: There was a lot of secrecy around this project when it was casting. What was that process like for you?

Morfydd Clark: I got an audition from my agent, and it was for this untitled Amazon project. All I knew about the character was that she’d experienced some loss and had been to war at one point. Then I arrived at the audition, and one of the actresses was next to me and we started chatting, and she was like, “Can you believe we’re auditioning for Lord of the Rings?” And I was like, “What?!” I had to go into the bathroom and have a moment breathing in deeply, staring at myself, being like, You’ve gotta turn up, Morfydd. You’ve watched these films. You’ve read these books. You’ve been waiting for this. I looked at everything I’d prepared and tried to make it suddenly be like I was in Middle-earth.

When did you find out you would actually be playing Galadriel?
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