Cynthia Addai-Robinson

PARTING SHOT

- H. Alan Scott

WHEN CYNTHIA ADDAI-ROBINSON WAS CAST AS QUEEN REGENT MÍRIEL in Amazon Prime's highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Fire (September 2), she didn't have time to feel nervous. "I felt just disbelief. It felt like winning the lottery." She went from isolating during the pandemic to shooting in New Zealand. "My first day filming I was on a mountain. So, a little different." The show's time period is before the events of The Hobbit and the original The Lord of the Rings. "We're not trying to take away from the films in any way. The films are the films and they're classics." But what does make the series different is the diversity among the cast. "I think people are hungry for, especially within fantasy, something that feels forward facing.... Just to be a