The rings of power and Charlie Vickers’ curious audition to keep Sauron a secret

The first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” has come to an end on Amazon Prime Video and, if you are one of those who liked these chapters, you should know that the big revelation of this episode was the identity of Sauron, a character who eventually turned out to be Halbrand, played by the actor Charlie Vickerswho has now revealed how the production hid this information from him from day one.

In a recent interview conducted by Entertainment Weekly, actor Charlie Vickers revealed that he did not even know the identity of the aforementioned. villain created by JRR Tolkienas this information was unknown to the entire cast, noting that during the first few episodes of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ on Amazon Prime Video, he only starred in his scenes as Halbrand, unaware that he was actually about Sauron.

The actor also revealed this after his audition for it The Lord of the Rings seriesSauron’s identity was hidden from him, as when he was trying to land this role in the Amazon Prime Video series, he auditioned performing character monologues in evil moments, but nothing related to the story Tolkien created.

They gave me a monologue of Richard III, when he is standing on top of a body and is basically evil. The other was taken from Paradise Lost, Milton’s poem, which was literally Satan, “reveals the actor.

Decidedly, Charlie Vickers had a curious audition to attend ‘The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power’, since he is one of the few actors who during all of his auditions for this series, he impersonated characters other than what he would have played in this production, which apparently has been a success on the part of this platform, since the revelation. of this kind of villain an enormous emotion in the public keeping it secret until the end.

This hidden fact in the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” is part of the huge success that this series has achieved, so it has been confirmed that this production will have a second installment, in which this feared villain of the Middle-earth created by Tolkienit would have a bigger role than in the first episodes.

Sauron in “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” 2

In a recent interview, the creators of this Amazon Prime Video Series have revealed that in the second season of this production, Sauron will be the main protagonist, because the origin and motivations of this character would be deepened, so without a doubt the new episodes of this series are promising to be very interesting and exciting.

However, all is not good news for the franchise’s millions of fans The Lord of the Ringssince everything seems to indicate that the wait to see these episodes will be quite long, since although it has been speculated that the new installment would arrive in 2023, the creators of this story have revealed that it will most likely return until 2024.