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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The ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Wolf Pack’ star will be honored for her life work, with ‘LOTR’ actress Morfydd Clark receiving the rising star award and ‘Transparent’ creator Joey Soloway honored with the Canneseries commitment award.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Soloway and Morfydd Clark will be honored this year as part of Canneseries 2023, the French TV festival that runs alongside international television market MIPTV.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wolf Pack star Gellar will receive this year’s Canal+ Icon Award for her life’s work. Clark, best known for playing Galadriel on Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series, will be honored with the Canneseries rising star award. Soloway, the Emmy-winning creator of Amazon’s Transparent, will receive this year’s commitment award, which honors social engagement by creatives in the TV industry.

Canneseries on Tuesday also unveiled its competition jury for the 2023 event, with Fauda creator Lior Raz heading up the five-person group, alongside Lupin actress Shirine Boutella, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Bad Sisters actor Daryl McCormack, Emmy-nominated composer (and Police drummer) Stewart Copeland and French actress Zabou Breitman (24 Days, The Swallows of Kabul).

Oscar-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy) will head up the documentary jury, together with French producer and screenwriter Nathalie Marchak and producer and journalist Melissa Theuriau.

Among the world premieres bowing at this year’s Canneseries are AppleTV+’s Silo, starring Rebecca Ferguson; Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction with Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan; and Amazon Prime’s gender-flipped TV take on David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers, featuring Rachel Weisz in the central role as twin gynecologists.

International highlights include French cop series BRI, Norwegian drama Power Play, the Danish series Prisoner, starring The Killing‘s Sofie Gråbøl, South African series Spinners, new Israeli shows Carthago and Corduroy, and Bargain, a new Korean series from hitmaker Byun Seung Min (D.P., The Cursed).

The 2023 edition of Canneseries runs April 14-19. [Source]