If, like Kristen Stewart, you loved Morfydd Clark in her 2021 spine-tingling thriller Saint Maud, then buckle up because she's now starring in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
In the TV series, which is a prequel to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Clark plays Galadriel (later known as Lady of Lothlórien), who is a great Elf of Middle-earth, loved for her beauty, intelligence and power.
LOTR fans will know that Clark's character (which was brought to life by Cate Blanchett in the film franchise) helps the Fellowship as they prepare to defeat Sauron. While Galadriel often appears like a torture soul, both utterly charming but seemingly at war with herself, we were glad to see Clark's personality couldn't be further away from her challenging character's.
Down-to-earth, funny and effortlessly poised, Clark sat down with ELLE UK to play a game of Ask Me Anything ahead of her show's release and spoke about everything, from her gratitude to Kristen Stewart 'for bringing weirdness to the forefront' in Hollywood to her desire to be Tom Cruise's body double.
When speaking about Stewart, Clark told us that she loves how her roles 'are getting weirder and more grimy and gritty', noting that she thinks it's 'cool thing' for women in film.
Elsewhere in the interview she spoke about being 'naughty' as a child, recalling an incident when she and a friend flooded her family home's bathroom by stuffing tissue in all of the plugs. Despite being grounded for a week, she said she drove her mum 'so mad in the first two days, she was like "get out, you're not grounded anymore!" So that was pretty bad.'
On her early acting experience, the Welsh actor spoke about feeling 'terrified' on her way from Cardiff to London to audition at drama school - a move she's not sure she'd have the guts to do now, aged 33. 'Eighteen-year-old me just took such a kind of crazy leap, having just some weird idea that I could possibly act,' she recalled.
Responding to a question about what she would change about her life, she said while 'anxiety' initially springs to mind she ultimately wouldn't change anything, choosing instead to quote a line from fellow Welsh star Marina Diamandis (previously known by her stagename Marina and the Diamonds), who Clark says has been 'the soundtrack' to her life. 'If I got rid of all my demons, I'd lose my angels,' she recited from the singer's song 'Demons and Angels'.
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