HEN CYNTHIA ADDAI-ROBINSON WAS CAST AS QUEEN REGENT MÍRIEL in Amazon Prime’s highly anticipated (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. and the original “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 woman of color in this world, it feels like if you’re gonna tell this story now, you’d want to have that.” Ultimately for Cynthia, just being part of the legacy of the franchise is special. “There are a lot of people that this story is so precious to…it’s the kind of story that gets people through different times in their life.”
