This begins a feud that leads to bloodshed and death and forever changes Rohan.
Collider spoke with Cox about playing Helm Hammerhand andthe actor’s history with Lord of the Rings.
Cox talked a little about his experience with Tolkien and the folklore the author often used as inspiration.
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That wasn’t my thing."
BRIAN COX: I’m afraid it’s just another job, but it’s a magnificent job.
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I don’t knock the job, but it is another job.
I didn’t know anything about Lord of the Rings.I had never read Tolkien.
That wasn’t my thing.
And of course, Scotland, being a Scot, we have a beautiful country.
I think he was very influenced by the Celtic mythology of the area, and by the Norse mythology.
With Dublin, the Norse raided and lived there for a long time.
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That’s from the Vikings.
You’ve had a prolific career.
I really tend to deal with what’s happening immediately.
The untold story behind Helm’s Deep, hundreds of years before the fateful war, telling the life and bloodsoaked times of its founder, Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan.
It has to be the here and now.
It has to be this moment.
Because I’ve played a lot of those guys, you know?
I thank fuck I didn’t have that problem that they have.
[Laughs] So, I have a great respect.
I think it’s a tragic thing that you could waste your life on that.
We see that all the time.
That’s a fact of life.
It’s not a road I need to walk down.
COX: No, you don’t need to walk down that road at all.
This is the first film set in Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth since 2014.
I have to ask you aboutSuccessionbecause myself and, like, millions of others are huge fans.
What a great finale to that show.
COX: I think it was the group.
I think it was aphenomenalgroup of actors to work with.
They were great even Jeremy Strong.
[Laughs] Jeremy’s a great actor.
As long as we could do the acting, that was it.
And then, of course, [Matthew] MacFadyen, the great MacFadyen.
When we started, they would give him five alts, and he would panic.
It was amazing.He’s an extraordinary young man, and he’s getting a great deal of success.
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrimis in theaters now.
