This story contains spoilers for The Rings of Power.
Even Vickers himself didn’t know he was playing Sauron until Episode 3.
The showrunners, Patrick McKay and J.D.
Payne took him aside during a COVID-related filming hiatus to tell him the news, he toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
But for Vickers, it all makes sense.
“You have to think of it in terms of where we’re meeting Sauron during his repentance stage.
Tolkien says pretty explicitly in the The Silmarillion that he is repentant–if not out of fear.
“He’s been brought low.
He’s been humiliated, almost humbled.”
Vickers also spoke about how Sauron will be a complicated villain during Season 2.
In Season 2, viewers will “start to see Sauron for who he is,” Vickers said.
The Rings of Power iscurrently filming its second season in the UK, having departed New Zealand.
There is no word yet, however, on when the next season will premiere.
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