The breakout star, who plays the evil dark lord Sauron, sheds secrets on the final episode of season two
Charlie Vickers on The Rings of Power: ‘I was flinching while we filmed the finale’, has provided us with the year’s most epic TV set-pieces. We’ve had fierce battles, blistering special effects and swarming armies of orcs.
In order to bring the character to life, Vickers poured over Tolkien’s writing. “In his letters, Tolkien talked about Sauron’s motivations in depth, saying how he should be seen as evil and how that’s the purpose he plays in the story,” he says when we chat over video call to discuss the show’s season finale. “But he also said, beyond that, that Sauron had good intentions, at least in the beginning. He wants to heal and rehabilitate Middle Earth. He wants to recreate Heaven on Earth.”.
“Sauron doesn’t want to kill Celebrimbor, but does so because there’s truth in what he says,” Vickers explains. “It’s not that he’s deceived himself, but that he’s unconsciously got to this point where he’s become a slave to these creations. He’s no longer in control.” The most shocking moment in that scene, though, is the single tear that escapes down Sauron’s cheek. “That wasn’t intentional. It just happened.
For Vickers, filming scenes during the city’s destruction was one of those pinch me moments as an actor. “A lot of that stuff when things were exploding was actually happening,” he says, before recalling one scene when he tried not to react as Sauron walks through the devastation. “The first couple of takes I did a huge flinch. I just remember thinking, ‘Don’t flinch when this thing explodes, because I need to look cool.
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