Miranda Otto: ‘It can be a gift when things go absolutely the wrong way’

Miranda Otto, beloved as Eowyn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings series, plays a different kind of royal in The Pout-Pout Fish: Queen of the Cuttlefish. Photograph: Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDb

Your latest role is Queen of the Cuttlefish, in The Pout-Pout Fish; if you could be a fish for a day, which one would it be and why?

The blue groper at Clovelly beach – because it’s like an institution, and people go there to see it. I just think it’s cool that there’s a local fish that people actually go and see and talk about – it’s a special fish.