Cynthia Addai-Robinson Reveals Why Her ‘People We Hate At The Wedding’ Role ‘Felt Fated’ (Exclusive)

Cynthia Addai-Robinson isn’t conscionable staying successful Middle Earth. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power prima took a interruption from Míriel to represent Eloise successful Prime Video’s household dramedy The People We Hate At The Wedding, which is present disposable to stream. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Cynthia astir transitioning from precocious phantasy to present-day London.

“It was a wholly wholly antithetic vibe and a antithetic benignant of character. It’s large due to the fact that you sometimes are benignant of hoping and wishing thing volition travel on conscionable to benignant of springiness you a caller challenge,” Cynthia said. “It’s been a infinitesimal since I flexed my comic bone, truthful this task appeared and it was precisely the benignant of happening that I’ve been wanting to bash for a portion and conscionable hasn’t been disposable to maine successful this way. It felt fated.”

Cynthia Addai-Robinson successful ‘The People We Hate At The Wedding.’ (Prime Video)

In The People We Hate At The Wedding, Cynthia’s Eloise is the oldest sibling to Kristen Bell’s Alice and Ben Platt’s Paul. While Alice and Ben deliberation Eloise has it each together, she’s ever felt similar she’s been connected the extracurricular looking in.

“I deliberation what’s absorbing astir Eloise and adjacent the depiction of Eloise wrong her ain household is that she feels similar she doesn’t belong,” Cynthia explained. “Even though she’s aspirational to different radical retired successful the world, to adjacent her ain siblings, they presumption her with awe and disdain. I deliberation she senses that and picks up connected that. There’s conscionable that consciousness of, I consciousness similar these radical should cognize maine best, and I consciousness similar they don’t cognize maine astatine all. I deliberation a batch of radical successful their household person had experiences similar that, whether it’s with their parents oregon their siblings.”

She continued, “There’s besides an absorbing thought of blended families, but besides benignant of blended cultures. It’s decidedly an absorbing propulsion and propulsion betwixt your antithetic taste identities oregon antithetic benignant of heritages that benignant of specify who you are. That’s decidedly thing for maine that I felt similar determination was a truly beardown parallel. I was calved successful London, but I near the UK astatine a very, precise young age, arsenic you tin archer by my voice, and moved to the U.S. My mother’s from Ghana, truthful my upbringing was benignant of this Ghanaian, British, American upbringing. They each benignant of are a constitution of my worldview, my experiences, truthful it’s absorbing if you person blended families that travel from 2 antithetic cultures, conscionable seeing however sometimes that effort astatine meshing oftentimes leads to a batch of misunderstanding and then, fortunately, for the movie leads to a batch of drama arsenic well.”

The worlds of The Lord of the Rings and House of the Dragon collided successful The People We Hate At The Wedding. Cynthia’s onscreen fiance is John MacMillan, who played Laenor Velaryon successful the HBO series.

“John and I had a bully chuckle due to the fact that erstwhile we archetypal met we knew that we were successful a precise peculiar club, which is the nine wherever you’re connected a truly large show, but you’re not allowed to speech astir it,” Cynthia quipped. “We bonded implicit that. We some completed our clip connected our respective shows, and past I had the pleasance of yet getting a accidental to ticker House of the Dragon and I’m like, ohio my gosh, okay, truthful like, that’s who he’s playing. I didn’t cognize thing astir his character, and helium didn’t cognize thing astir mine. But I was hoping that immoderate precise eagle-eyed viewers would spot Míriel and Laenor successful an alternate beingness successful a onshore far, acold distant arsenic hubby and wife.”

In the film, Eloise has poignant conversations with some of her siblings. Even erstwhile emotions are heightened successful household situations, Cynthia pointed retired that levity is important. “I deliberation immoderate of the things that these characters are navigating successful and of themselves are not comic astatine all, obviously, but I deliberation it’s astir that happening of you tin benignant of laughter astatine yourself, you tin laughter astatine the benignant of ridiculousness of uncovering yourself successful a situation. I deliberation that having that equilibrium to maine feels precise existent to life,” Cynthia told HollywoodLife. “Oftentimes, beingness is virtually switching determination successful precise accelerated succession betwixt drama and calamity oregon drama. I deliberation what I emotion astir the movie is it truly does onslaught a balance. When it’s clip to laugh, it’s hilarious. But erstwhile it benignant of gets a small spot much serious, it feels precise grounded due to the fact that it’s truly astir these benignant of familial relationships and conscionable however profoundly they’re affected by 1 another.”

When Cynthia recovered retired that she was going to beryllium moving alongside Kristen, Ben, and Allison Janney, she was “absolutely giddy due to the fact that I’m a instrumentality of each of their work, some successful drama and successful drama. Allison, Kristen, and Ben, they’re each truly adept astatine doing both.”

Cynthia Addai-Robinson arsenic Miriel. (Prime Video)

Cynthia couldn’t uncover overmuch astir The Rings of Power play 2. “l volition coyly accidental that play 2 of Rings of Power has started filming successful London, and that’s each I tin say,” she said.

Like each viewers, Cynthia was conscionable arsenic shocked arsenic everyone other regarding that jaw-dropping Sauron reveal. “I hadn’t work immoderate of that portion of the script. I hadn’t seen immoderate of that being filmed. It was a very, precise small, trusted ellipse of radical who are progressive successful the filming of each of those Sauron uncover scenes. I had my suspicions. Charlie Vickers is simply a very, precise lovely, talented actor, but I had a feeling adjacent though it was ne'er officially confirmed amongst the cast,” Cynthia admitted. “But I’m conscionable truthful arrogant of our archetypal play for truly laying the instauration for a immense epic tale. Season 1 is the introduction. It’s the instauration to these worlds, these characters, and what an astonishing cliffhanger to benignant of permission it astatine truthful that radical are wondering what play 2 is going to beryllium similar and what the communicative is going to beryllium present that we’ve got these things acceptable successful motion.”

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