{"id":738897,"date":"2026-06-15T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738897\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:45:09","slug":"anya-taylor-joy-joins-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/738897\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy Joins &#8216;The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt For Gollum&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/anya-taylor-joy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_anya-taylor-joy\" data-tag=\"anya-taylor-joy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a> is the latest star to join the cast of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\" data-tag=\"the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe new film is directed by and starring Andy Serkis, who returns to play Gollum, alongside Ian McKellen (as Gandalf), Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Lee Pace (King Thranduil). Taylor\u2011Joy joins an ensemble of new cast members, including Kate Winslet as Marigol, Jamie Dornan as Strider, and Leo Woodall as Halvard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTaylor-Joy is set to play the role of Seren, a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm, who is described as \u201ca trusted and lethal agent of King Thranduil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe casting also marks Taylor-Joy\u2019s third role in one of Warner Bros.\u2019 marquee franchises following \u201cFuriosa\u201d (the prequel to \u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d) and the \u201cDune\u201d movies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMore to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy is the latest star to join the cast of \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Hunt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[51888,49,48,75,337,103693],"class_list":["post-738897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anya-taylor-joy","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}