From an interview posted on lordoftherings.net, September 2003 : "I started with a trainer for three weeks before I went to New Zealand just to get some fitness. And then I came to New Zealand three weeks before shooting to work with the stunt guys on choreographing the fight and the basic moves, and to work on horse riding."

About Eowyn : "Part of me really wanted to show that tough side, but it was important when there are so few female characters to see a femininity and a vulnerability as well."

E! Online, December 2002 : About Viggo Mortensen : "As soon as I saw him onscreen for the first time, they showed me some of the rushes, and they said, "That's Aragorn." And I thought, I have to fall in love with him ? That's going to be very easy. No problem. That one's solved. And he's also a very wonderful person to work with. He's a very sensitive, caring person and really quite quiet and shy."

From an interview by Paul Fisher, May 2002 : About Eowyn : "I think one thing would have to be that I could play something of another period, not to appear too modern. I guess they needed someone who was able to mould into a world that seemed to have been forged a long time ago and I suppose have some sense of period."

Miranda sees Eowyn "as a fighter and someone who is idealistic, who wants to live her life, not compromise and stand up for the things that she believes in as well as look after her people. Her main frustrations are that she may be led into compromising inactivity. As far as her romantic streak goes, she's been someone who's been brought up with men her whole life, so romance has never been a significant part of her life, until Aragorn and it's a little frightening as much as anything. I don't think she's a romantic, Sleeping Beauty-type character, but rather someone determined to be who she is and stick up for that."

About being part of the trilogy : "I auditioned for this in Australia, after all, not ever meeting the director or writers, being handed some scripts back to front because they had the wrong numbered covers on them, not having been able to get through the whole book in the couple of days I had to audition for it and thinking because it was in New Zealand and a Peter Jackson film, it would be something small and low-key."