{"id":774652,"date":"2026-07-02T03:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774652\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T03:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:34:17","slug":"anya-taylor-joy-talks-her-gollum-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774652\/","title":{"rendered":"Anya Taylor-Joy Talks Her &#8220;Gollum&#8221; Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anya-taylor-joy-up-for-hunt-for-gollum.jpg\" data-caption=\"Searchlight\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anya-taylor-joy-up-for-hunt-for-gollum.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"anya-taylor-joy-up-for-hunt-for-gollum\"\/><\/a>Searchlight<\/p>\n<p>A month ago came the news that actress Anya Taylor-Joy (\u201cFuriosa,\u201d \u201cThe Northman\u201d) would star in Andy Serkis\u2019 \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum\u201d at Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The studio even went so far as to offer a motion poster of her as her Elven character Seren, albeit a heavily obscured look.<\/p>\n<p>The character was described as a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and a trusted, lethal agent of King Thranduil (Lee Pace).<\/p>\n<p>The character is an original creation who doesn\u2019t appear in any of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s works.  Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RottenTomatoes\/status\/2072324437358051692\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, Taylor-Joy has now addressed her casting for the first time:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I feel like I\u2019ve been an Elf my whole life, so it feels very validating to go and actually do it as a job. I\u2019m a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, I\u2019m a huge fan of Andy Serkis. I think he\u2019s a wonderful man and a wonderful, innovative creator. So I think just being able to be a part of this world and inhabit this character is a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also starring are Serkis as Gollum\/Smeagol, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Elijah Wood as Frodo, Lee Pace as Thranduil, Kate Winslet as Marigol, Jamie Dornan as Strider\/Aragorn and Leo Woodall as Halvard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Searchlight A month ago came the news that actress Anya Taylor-Joy (\u201cFuriosa,\u201d \u201cThe Northman\u201d) would star in Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-774652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774652","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=774652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}