Charlie Vickers had a hunch. The then-27-year-old Australian actor had his suspicions that the mysterious human character he was playing on Amazon’s ambitious new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power, was actually Sauron. The series, after all, had been billed as a prequel following the forging of the Rings of Power during Middle-earth’s Second Age — the era characterized by Sauron’s rise to power and his reign of terror that would only be ended by the War of the Last Alliance.
“You go through the cast list, and when you looked at the time period that this show would be set in, you knew that Sauron was going to be there,” Vickers tells Inverse. “So we thought he must be somewhere in disguise.”
