Since Peter Jackson became the filmmaker behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy and decided to film them in his native country of New Zealand, the country and the franchise have been inexplicably tied. While that tradition continued on the debut season of Rings of Power , Middle-earth was moved to the UK for Season 2 of the Lord of the Rings series . While it feels bittersweet that the show is no longer being shot in New Zealand this time around, Tar-Míriel actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson shared why it was actually a good thing for her scenes.
When CinemaBlend caught up with Cynthia Addai-Robinson over the phone, we spoke about how she approached the queen of Númenór’s blindness and her excitement for Charlie Vickers’ “sexy Sauron.” In addition, I asked her about the move from New Zealand for this season. In her words: Well, some of the sets, they just literally brought over or were rebuilt so that you could still have the through line of it's still Númenór as you know it, specifically the interiors.
For our part of the world this season, we did a bit of location shooting in Tenerife from the Canary Islands which I'm very excited about because Númenór is an island nation, it makes sense that you need to see coastline and something that's almost closer to being the Mediterranean. Númenór feels like a place off the coast of the Mediterranean, and while Tenerife is off the coast of the Atlantic, it’s an absolutely gorgeous setting that allowed her and th.