Lloyd Owen and Ema Horvath tease how their characters grieve for Isildur in The Rings of Power season 2

Can you believe that we're officially one day away from the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video? Because I certainly can't! Leading up the highly-anticipated debut, we've been bringing you interviews and content with the actors of the show (see a list of some of them at the end of the post!) that we gathered from San Diego Comic-Con.

Now, it's time to bring you the final one with lovely actors and onscreen father and daughter duo Lloyd Owen (Elendil) and Ema Horvath (Eärien). Of course one of the biggest storylines for the two characters this season is the fact that they're both dealing with the loss of Isildur (check out our interview with Maxim Baldry here), Elendil's son and Eärien's brother. We know that he's still alive, but his family does not.

"When we start, Isildur has died, we both think he's dead. And I'm still very active in my grief and anger," said Horvath. "And my father, his stoic self, is hiding it a lot more. And there's a lot of frustration on my end that someone isn't grieving in a way that I think is appropriate."

"There is a divide in Númenórean society. It's already existed before the show starts," said Lloyd. "The political will be represented in the personal ultimately. And so what you have is a very strong sense of ideas. And if you're not tribal about it, then you would say the nationalists have a point of view. If the elves can live forever, why shouldn't we live forever? You know, we have Elven in our background. Why is that not possible?"

"We went to war because of Galadriel, she's chasing the wrong thing. So all of that plays into this particular relationship. And the other thing that they've done brilliantly was set up, you know, a widowed man trying to bring up some orphan children," Lloyd continued. "So all that grief plays into so much and the grief of losing Isildur and a father who is, as you say, stoic enough that I don't think he can feel anymore at the beginning, it's too painful to open that up. So they're not really communicating."

Horvath shared that there's one scene in particular between herself and Lloyd that she's excited for fans to see as they'd been talking about it for months, and it's a pivotal one as "everything kind of comes to a head." Speaking of the showrunners, they've talked about Rings of Power having a five-year plan. So do the actors know how long they're sticking around for, and if that's true?

"We've been asked to do season three as a group of actors. So, when that will start yet, we don't yet know. But I think the boys have planned the whole arc when they first pitched and wrote the idea," shared Lloyd. Horvath added that she knows her overarching arc for Eärien, but doesn't know the details of how she's going to get there. And that's where all the fun comes in!

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 premieres August 29. The first three episodes will drop all at once on Prime Video.

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