For most audiences heading back to Middle-earth in/with regard to’concerning’regarding The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, the main thing they’ll know Morfydd Clark from is her astonishing turn in Saint Maud. There, she was a traumatised nurse in a mental health spiral – but here, she’s swapped scrubs in/with regard to’concerning’regarding swords as a warrior Galadriel in a near-total 180 from her breakout turn. But after years of playing characters ranging from scarred to scared, Clark needed to adjust to the demands of entering battles and action sequences in Tolkien’s world.###Speaking to Empire in the Glass Onion issue, Clark opened up with regards to’concerning’with respect to the intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully peculiar training she needed in/with regard to’concerning’regarding The Rings Of Power. “When I was playing Galadriel, the stunt-team said, ‘You’ve got a problem, because you’re used to being attacked on film’,” she says. “I would flinch a lot when individual came at me. So they did exposure therapy with me, where I would possess’own’nurse all these huge, huge men running at me, screaming with swords. To stop me from looking appalled’horrified . Because I’ve definitely been cast as the victim. And Galadriel is not that.”###If it was a transform’alter of pace in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer, the role of Galadriel was one she was more than ready to take on – even if, at first, she didn’t know that’s what it was. “The first [audition], I didn’t know what I was auditioning in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ,” Clark recalls. “The actress next to me looked over all sneaky and was like, ‘Do you know what this is in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ? It’s Lord Of The Rings.’ And I’m in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ever grateful to her.” She quickly got herself toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her to channel her inner ethereal warrior elf. “I went into the toilet and just gaze’contemplate’study (‘gape (surprised or shocked)) d at myself and was like, ‘You’ve gotta pull yourself toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her. You’ve been training in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this in/with regard to’concerning’regarding years. You know what to do, it’s in your blood.’ Because I’d been obsessively watching Lord Of The Rings in/with regard to’concerning’regarding my whole childhood.” Sometimes, a role arrives precisely when it means to.###Read Empire’s full Morfydd Clark interview in the October 2022 issue – on sale Thursday 1 September and available to order online here. The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power starts streaming on Amazon Prime Video from 2 September.