‘The Rings of Power’ Finale: Even Sauron Actor Didn’t Know He Was Sauron at First

The RingsofPower actor behind Sauron breaks down his character’s first-season journey and how he was deceptive without ever actually lying

I didn’t know for sure until the beginning of the third episode. We filmed the first two episodes and then the show went on hiatus because of COVID. Towards the end of the hiatus, the showrunners sat me down and told me. I filmed that that sequence on the raft not knowing. I filmed it as Halbrand wholeheartedly. But I did have an inkling, if I’m honest with you. My last two auditions [were reading lines from] Richard III and we know he’s not the greatest guy in the world.

When I re-watched the early episodes with the idea that Halbrand was Sauron, it became almost wonderfully obvious — there are so many hints. Which was your favorite? He’s a smith. He knows the craft of smithing intimately. You have to think of it in terms of where we’re meeting Sauron during his repentance stage. Tolkien says pretty explicitly in thethat he is repentant — if not out of fear. So the question is not whether he was repentant, it was whether that repentance was genuine. He’s been brought low. He’s been humiliated, almost humbled. So when you see him on drifting on a raft, it’s basically as low as you can get.

It is true. I find it interesting because he is this deceiver and ultimately in order to deceive he has to fully embody this form he’s taken on. In order to convince someone like Galadriel, he has to be completely immersed in what he’s doing, which meant for me completely immersing myself in the character of Halbrand. But all the subconscious work of Sauron is there in the back. But yeah, he says a line, I think in the fifth episode, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry for all of it.

When he says he wants to heal Middle-earth, what sort of world is he imagining? Like we associate Sauron with darkness and a volcano, but he enthusiastically called Númenor a paradise and seemed like he wanted to stay there.

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