“Lord of the Rings” fans might not recognize Stephen Ure by his face, but they will surely remember the performances he gives in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth trilogy. Ure disguised himself under pounds of makeup prosthetics to play several Orc characters on the three films, most notably the Orc captain of Mordor named Grishnákh. The actor recently joined other performers who played Orcs and Uruk-hai for an interview with Thrillist, and he attributed some of the franchise’s most baffling lines of dialogue to “Rings” co-writer Philippa Boyens.
One of Ure’s most famous “Rings” scenes is the “Two Towers” fight that breaks out between the Orcs and Uruk-hai over whether or not some of the hungry Orcs can eat the hobbits Pippin and Merry. The fight culminates in a Uruk-hai proclaiming, “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!” The line has lived in infamy among “Rings...
One of Ure’s most famous “Rings” scenes is the “Two Towers” fight that breaks out between the Orcs and Uruk-hai over whether or not some of the hungry Orcs can eat the hobbits Pippin and Merry. The fight culminates in a Uruk-hai proclaiming, “Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!” The line has lived in infamy among “Rings...
- 4/15/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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