Lord of the Rings 25th anniversary reunion issue an
Empire magazine, sneak peek from Liv's and Cate Blanchett's interview
here:
Did you have to work on Elf body-language and speech together?
Cate Blanchett: We had Roisin [Carty, dialogue coach]. I heard you speak Elvish, and that sound just seemed to roll from you. It was so mellifluous and beautiful to listen to.
Liv Tyler: I used to listen to it [Elvish] on cassette tapes. I would walk around listening to it over and over. My character was so interesting because she’s not in the book a lot. Originally, when I came into the project, I was included in the Fellowship. I was in Helm’s Deep, fighting.
And you shot those scenes, didn’t you?
Tyler: I was there with Viggo and everyone. It was fucking hard, man. It was brutal. And it didn’t really work. Then it changed again. Over the course of three years, I didn’t always have something to hold on to with the text, so I had to really lean into this idea of unwavering love and groundedness that was the role of Arwen in the story.
