And obviously there must have been people feeling that way about a character like that. 'And I found that interesting, that you can look at people from different angles. 'There is a speech in which I talk about how much I admire Hitler and what Hitler has done for Germany, and who he is as a person, and what I've learned from him,' Monaghan said. This appears to be the pivotal scene that jumped off the page for Monaghan when he first got a hold of his script. The only glimpse of Richter we've seen so far came in a campaign trailer where he is torturing someone. Monaghan said he couldn't give away too many specifics about his Vanguard character to avoid spoilers, but he said Richter is 'paranoid' and fearful about how the war is going. And I'm sure the character I play in Call of Duty, he probably thinks he's fighting for the good guys,' Monaghan said.

'Obviously Merry's motivation to do things might be a little easier to understand. But there is a truth at the heart of each character that Monaghan taps into. In the case of Merry from The Lord of the Rings, viewers might find it easier to relate to a simple, country-loving Hobbit than, say, a war criminal. In an interview with GameSpot, Monaghan told us about how preparing for a character like Merry and Richter actually aren't all that different.Īs an actor, Monaghan said his job is to find the justification for his character's behavior, and then bring that to life. His next role is the sadistic Nazi officer Jannick Richter in Sledgehammer's Call of Duty: Vanguard, which releases this Friday, November 5. He starred in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series as the good-hearted, humble Hobbit Merry, one of the Fellowship's nine members. Actor Dominic Monaghan has serious range.

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