LEGEND OF THE SEEKER star Bridget Regan has been hitting the interview circuit! Daemon’s TV has a fantastic in depth interview w/ the fresh faced actress, here are a few highlights:
You guys have been picked up for a second season, do you know what it will be about? Will it be book two for “The Sword of Truth”?
Bridget Regan: They haven’t told us what it’s going to be yet. If it’s going to continue to draw on “The Sword of Truth,” or what it’s going to be. There is certainly no shortage of material to pull from. But they haven’t told us. You know sometimes the show really follows the book quite literally, and then other times it strays from them. So every time we get a new script I’m tearing into it, because it’s like “what is going to happen to these characters?” I’m interested, like a fan almost, about what’s going to happen.
Did you read all the books from “The Sword of Truth”?
Bridget Regan: No, I read “Wizard’s First Rule” and then “Debt of Bones,” I have a lot to go, because I keep going back reading ["Wizard's First Rule"] over and over again because… – I bring the book out to set because every time there’s a guy who has been confessed on the show, they’re like “what is this?…” and then I come over and hand them the book and go “here you go, just read it” and it’s a part describing what it feels like to be confessed, and they’re like “wow, thanks” and I’m like “okay, good luck playing that now buddy” (laughs), and then they go and they do it. It’s fun to watch because I’ve confessed so many men on the show, and seeing how each of them interprets it and plays it. At first I was going “oh it should always be the same and you need to make sure there is continuity with all of them,” but now it’s like “no I like the idea that this magical power would affect people differently.” And you know because it draws on love, it’s cool to see how different people play how it affects them, what their idea of falling hopelessly completely in love is.
How has the fan response been?
Bridget Regan: They are so lovely. I get it because I love the characters of Kahlan and Richard probably as much as they do. I love the enthusiasm, and when they get upset about the [show] not being like the book I’m with them. I’m like “I get it man, I get it, I know what you want, you want to see the book,” because it obviously affected them. It’s such a great world to get into. And I adore the fans, I feel so lucky that we have any sort of fan base at all to begin with. It was quite lucky to have that.
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Bridget also spoke to Sci-Fi Wire: What Seeker’s Regan hopes for season two. Hint: It flies and breathes fire
What do you want to see for Kahlan next season? What have you tasted that you want more of? What’s not clicking that you’d like to see improved?
Regan: I love the relationships that have developed, like with Kahlan and Zedd [Bruce Spence]. They have such mutual respect for each other, and I love working with Bruce. He’s literally one of the nicest, coolest, funniest men you could ever know, and I hope that we get to explore that relationship more, because in the mythology of the books the Confessor and the Wizard have a long-standing relationship. When I get to do scenes with Bruce, it’s such a treat. So I hope that we explore that more.
At the end of Wizard’s First Rule, Kahlan and Richard get together and ride off on a dragon. I keep asking, “Are we going to get a dragon? Is there going to be a dragon in the last episode? I really want a dragon.” I don’t know if that’s going to happen. I don’t know if we’re going to get together or not. If we don’t, I don’t know how long we could hold out on getting them together. I think there are 12 or 13 books in the series, so there’s no shortage of material. And I’d like to maybe get Kahlan into a shorter dress, because it’s hot in the middle of the summer. But that’s about it. That’s the only change I’d make.
This first season is far from over. Which has been the best episode so far, and why?
Regan: I felt that “Denna,” our eighth episode, was the one where we all really felt we’d found our footing. That was when we had Jessica Marais come in to play [the Mord'Sith] Denna. That episode, as far as the writing, was the most faithful to the book. I felt that, in the beginning, the writers wanted to be really creative and come up with their own stories and have these episodes that had a beginning, middle and end. That’s a hard thing because the book is such a long-term journey, but they want each episode to have its own story, which has been the hardest part of it, because I love the book. But when they do follow it, which they did in “Denna,” it had the grit and the violence and pain that Terry Goodkind paints so well in his books. The stakes are so high, and that episode really hit the nail on the head.
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