In the episode, Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), Rand (Josha Stradowski) and Aviendha (Ayoola Smart) enter the ancient Aiel city of Rhuidean. Each faces their own trial within the glass columns. While Rand confronts his past, Moiraine sees haunting versions of possible futures. The scenes scour every possible outcome for the Aes Sedai — unexpected romance, devastating betrayal and death (a lot of it, too). Rosamund Pike sat down with Parade to discuss the events of the episode and more.
'Road to the Spear' has drawn a lot of high praise from fans. Can you speak to the fan reaction the show is receiving this season?I'm so pleased that there is this buzz about Episode 4 because it is our most ambitious offering to date. And to be perfectly honest, it's where I've always dreamt the show would lean. Into the sort of the psychedelic nature of Robert Jordan's writing, the thing that upturns your reality, the thing that's sort of daring and provocative. Because that's what I feel the books are, and suddenly we were given free reign.
Then, for Moiraine's visions, this what we called the rollover rig, which was a camera on an arm that would pivot through a depression in the floor on one side of the set and pass overhead like a clock, going from 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock. And it would disappear into a crevice in the floor. And at some point, as it passes the midpoint, the image will flip. And to do all the visions where you just get 30 seconds, or maybe even 10 or 20 seconds, to convey a reality that could be one of Moiraine's possible futures, it was a very experimental and exciting way to work.
The scenes we get to see of Moiraine in Rhuidean are not depicted in the book. What was it like getting to work on those and figuring out what they would be?Rafe said, "Look, we can do everything. Let's put something sexy in there. Let's see Moiraine in a nightmare in bed with Lanfear. Let's see her In bed with Rand. And then with Lanfear, a sort of embrace that goes into a murder. Let's see her murdered by Lanfear in all kinds of multiple ways. Let's see her murdered by Rand. Let's see her take Rand as her warder. Let's see her swear fealty to The Dragon Reborn. Let's see it all.
The costuming on this show is really stellar. I was wondering what part of being an Executive Producer on this show is the most exciting for you?Things like exploring music cues. For instance, at the beginning of Episode 5, she's essentially had a terminal diagnosis emerging from the rings. She kind of knows with some certainty that, if Rand is to make it to The Last Battle, it will be without her, which is a cataclysmic recognition and realization. And she goes out into the desert at the top of Episode 5 with the Sarkarnen, this object that she's found in the Avendesora tree, and sort of expresses aliveness and here and nowness and rage and pain and determination, all through channeling these extraordinary patterns in the sand with the Sarkarnen. And I got to work with Lorne Balfe on the cues for that and really talk to him about what it felt like, this battle between power and submission with this object and with The One Power. And it needed to be right. I wanted that music to not feel like something overlaid on an experience. It had to feel like it was a total organic representation of what it felt like to be on that rock in the desert at sunset. So things like that.
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It's interesting, because Moiraine is learning to trust and ask for help from the younger cast, The Two Rivers crowd in this season. You know she's she has to ask Rand for help with understanding how to use the Sarkarnen, because he's the only one she knows who's journaled that level of power. And then she asked Seguin for help visiting Suan in a dream, right? But I made sure that when I got on the bed to dream walk or to go to dream, I did not have my shoes on.
You're responding to the audience!But the excitement of feeling that somebody who's lived with an image that they've imagined for, we get to be the ones to encapsulate that. If all the times that I feel that maybe Moiraine is not quite the vision, I've made sure that I hope that there are some quintessential Moiraine looks and Moiraine moments. Making sure we see Moiraine in true blue as she needs to face her destiny more and more through the season. I discussed with Sharon that we want to start where she's in disguise. And then as the season progresses, she is in klein blue, and it's vivid and it's incandescent in the sunlight.
The Wheel of Time is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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