Is Rand alThor Just a Sheepherder on The Wheel of Time, or the Dragon Reborn?
On ‘The Wheel of Time,’ Rand al’Thor is one of five villagers who is also the legendary Dragon Reborn. Read more about this cussed sheepherder.
As Amazon’s The Wheel of Time introduces us to its magical global, we meet Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a girl who can channel the One Power. Only ladies can handle the energy; men haven’t been ready to ever since Lews Therin Telamon, the mythic Dragon of the prior age, broke the world millennia prior.
Now, Moiraine believes one of 5 young Two Rivers villagers is the prophesied Dragon Reborn, the one that may wreck or save the international. But who is it, Wheel of Time fanatics? Rand al’Thor, possibly?
Maybe so, maybe not. But in the intervening time, Rand doesn’t agree with Moiraine, as Amazon says in a personality bio: “Her veiled intentions, and the forces of evil that appear to follow her, make her a threat in his eyes. He is brash, impulsive, and impossibly stubborn, however he’s driven to protect the ones he loves. If he’s no longer the one Moiraine seeks, he will nonetheless do the entirety in his energy to save lots of them from no matter she has deliberate. But if he is, possibly he has the energy to protect them all.”
Actor Josha Stradowski says he plays Rand as just a sheepherder, not a hero.
“Rand is a sheepherder, he’s a farmer boy, and he is taking care of the sheep together with his father,” Josha Stradowski, who performs the character, informed IGN in 2019. “He follows his heart continuously, and he makes choices very impulsively, so I assume folks would name him cussed. But I'd say he’s very loving and afraid. He’s many things.”
And regardless of the labels on the persona’s wardrobe, Josha plays Rand as a standard, everyday person — not a hero who would possibly or will not be the Dragon Reborn. “I don’t see him as a hero,” the Dutch actor explained. “I know I try to method him in a very human manner. In my boot, it says, ‘Rand - Hero,’ which I don’t really like. I just want him to be … just a sheepherder.”
The characters “feel actual and human,” even in the fantastical surroundings, Josha says.
Rand and the other Wheel of Time characters “really feel actual and human,” Josha instructed newshounds recently, in keeping with Winter Is Coming. “And although its delusion, I am hoping you can in reality relate to them. I feel a factor of that is the relationships between the characters. Those feel really as if they topic. That’s what I felt studying the books as neatly. I felt like, as an actor, I could do extra to make these characters feel more essential.”
Josha is also deep into the e-book sequence.
In the identical interview, Josha said that fellow Wheel of Time actor Marcus Rutherford, who performs Perrin Aymara, impressed him to read the Robert Jordan book series on which the Amazon show is primarily based.
“You gave me that push, you fired me up,” he mentioned to his costar. “I came in the first week [of taking pictures] in Prague, and I requested Marcus how a ways he was once into the books, and he stated, ‘I’m in [e-book] two, the place are you?’ I was finishing guide one, so from then, that was once all I needed. I’m on e book eleven now.”
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