Any fan of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings saga obviously hasn’t forgotten the great sequences featuring the legendary Riders of Rohan. Except that more than half of them were actually women!
The entry in the Indestructible trilogy orchestrated by Peter Jackson, The Two Towers is full of moments of bravery, such as the extraordinary battle scene at Helm’s Deep pitting the forces of the wizard Saruman against those of Rohan.
A memory sequence, about a charge led by the characters Eomer and Gandalf in particular, fiercely pursuing a line of Orcs…
If the special effects, of course, work in such a sequence, there should also be many riders in the flesh. How should we do it? Instead of putting “regular” actors on horses, the production had the idea of criss-crossing the region in search of real riders who already had a connection to their own horses.
It turns out that a large number of these emeritus riders were actually women; Although the legendary riders of Rohan are supposed to be men. The makeup and props department applied fake beards to them and the illusion was perfect!
The delicious period feature below returns to this aspect, particularly the difficulty of eating with a fake beard for these women. And Dominic Monaghan tricked Viggo Mortensen into even letting him flirt with one of them!
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