Tyroe Muhafidin, who stars in LOTR: The Rings of Power, recently disclosed that it took two weeks to film one of the two-minute fight scenes in the Prime Video series.
In an interview Muhafidin talked about shooting the scene in Season 1, Episode 2, “Adrift,” where his character Theo fights off a murderous orc.
“I think it’s like a two-minute fight scene and it took us two weeks to shoot, which is pretty crazy,” he said. “So it was you know they make it look really easy in the movies because they all do it so fast and they all do it so well. But it’s like we spent around 10 months in the gym for that scene. It got changed around a bunch of times. You know, there was one version where I had the Orc’s neck, had a chain wrapped around his neck and I was like pulling his head into a pot of boiling water. That was a version.”
“And, you know, we went through so many different kinds just to think about what would be the best for entertainment purposes. As well as for the camera, making sure it all gets caught,” Muhafidin continued. “And that was a really, really, really cool experience, to experience that sort of thing. And I was in a harness as well. Which actually was the worst part of the whole experience because those things are not comfortable. But yeah, no, it was pretty crazy. Because a lot of work went into it for such a small amount of time.”
The co-showrunners of LOTR: The Rings of Power, Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, also recently addressed the show’s future and stated that they had a five-year plan for its run. This concept, according to McKay and Payne, “has a very concrete and clear goal”. And correlates to the five seasons of The Rings of Power that Amazon Studios has ordered.
Prime Video is currently offering The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for streaming.
