Facts: Morfydd Clark
Name: Morfydd Clark.
Age: 33.
Lives: England.
Profession: actor.
Previous films/TV series: “Madame Bovary”, “Pride and prejudice and zombies”, “Crawl”, “The personal history of David Copperfield”, “Saint Maud”, “His dark materials”, “Dracula”.
Current: In “The Rings of Power” (streaming on Amazon Prime from September 2).
Just a few weeks after “Game of thone’s” spin-off, “House of the dragon”, it’s time for the next highly anticipated prequel series to another fantasy giant. “The Rings of Power” takes place thousands of years before the events of “The Lord of the Rings” and is described as the most expensive television series ever. Amazon paid SEK 2.5 billion just for the rights and has pumped over SEK 7 billion into the project, according to The Wall Street Journal.
One of the series’ few characters taken from “The Lord of the Rings” is the elf queen Galadriel – there played by Cate Blanchett, now by Morfydd Clark.
“It’s incredible to be able to play a person who has previously been played by one of the world’s absolute best actresses,” says Clark to TT.
Sweden connection
The interview begins with Sweden as a topic. When she was two years old, her family moved from Sweden to England.
It has been said that one of her few memories from her stay in Sweden is that she can say “we are out of toilet paper” in Swedish.
When TT reminds her of this, she bursts out laughing and continues with something that should sound like that sentence in Swedish.
Clark’s father worked in “something in IT that he couldn’t explain”. When the daughter was born in Sweden, the parents decided to stay for a few years, and then moved to South Wales.
They brought with them a number of Swedish children’s books, such as “Pippi Longstocking”.
— I grew up with her. Children in Scandinavia are loved in a way that they are not in England. A lot of Scandinavian books celebrate parts of childhood that I could identify with, like being loud and greedy and impatient, says Clark.
Morfydd Clark. Stock photography. World famous
Morfydd Clark has been open about the fact that she was diagnosed early with dyslexia and ADHD. She dropped out of school at 16, but just a few years later she embarked on what has now become a successful career as an actress.
Most famous in Sweden so far, she is from the lead role in the psychological horror film “Saint Maud”. Now, however, she is likely to become world famous thanks to the role of Galadriel. The series is based on excerpts from JRR Tolkien’s book “The Silmarillion”.
AJ Bayona, who directed several of the episodes, thinks the series goes back to “the very foundation”.
— If you have not seen or read “The Lord of the Rings”, our series can be a good way to enter that world. It’s a brand new story, not an attempt to retell something that’s been told before. At the same time, we are faithful to what Tolkien created. “Silmarillion” is not fiction but more like a historical guide.
Morfydd Clark thought she knew everything about The Lord of the Rings, but discovered there was “so much more”.
— Of course, I have been influenced by what Cate Blanchett did. It is not possible to delete what I have seen. But I didn’t push what I did, it turned out as it did.