Even if we are currently talking about him for the role of Billy Butcher in the TV series The Boys, the New Zealand actor Karl Urban has become well known to the general public and especially in the field of pop culture.
After portraying Judge Dredd (after Stallone), Waco Riddick, Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek saga, and the warrior Scourge in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the actor mainly lent his features to Yomer, Rohan’s distinguished rider in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Ring in the early 2000s (a role he also won providentially).
from middle earth…
Absent from the first part of the Peter Jackson saga, he more than made up for it in The Two Towers and return of the kingLeading the charge from Rohan to Helm’s Deep alongside Gandalf, taking part in the titanic battle of the Pelennor Fields and even killing Oliphant with his spear.
After wandering through Middle-earth, Karl Urban visited many other worlds of popular culture. Indeed, even if few viewers know about it, and even if it’s absolutely impossible to spot when you don’t know exactly where to look, it also made a small (hidden) foray into the extremely popular Star Wars saga.
…in the Star Wars galaxy!
“I had a chance to visit JJ Abrams when he was filming The Rise of Skywalker. And while I was there, he dressed me up as a stormtrooper and we had a really fun day on set.”he explained At the Digital Spy microphone in 2020. “Stormtrooper has always been one of my goals in life and so I can check that box.”
As he also told Digital Spy, he plays one of the two stormtroopers we see on screen during the scene where Kylo Ren arrives, 20 minutes and 11 seconds into the film. That’s exactly what we can hear on the left “Knights of Ren”And who turns slightly towards the camera.
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