TVStar: The first-ever scene in Legend of the Seeker shows you riding a horse through a beautiful countryside, chased by ugly D’Harans. I think it drew a lot of people into the show. When you shot it, did you know that scene was, in a sense, going to introduce the show and could possibly make or break it? How much pressure did you feel shooting that scene? (darkbahamut88)

Bridget: Maybe it was a bit daunting. I knew that it was the first time the audience would meet Kahlan…meet MY Kahlan. The script said, “a fierce warrior of stunning beauty and great courage.” Needless to say, I had fallen in love with her, and I wanted to do her right. Do her justice. But in the last moment, I had to let that go. (I had to) concentrate on getting to the boundary and finding (Richard) and putting the book in his hands…and cantering in a corset for the first time and not falling on my bum.

TVStar: If you wandered in to the Valley of Perdition, what might you see as being your worst nightmares and fears coming to life? And what do you think Kahlan would see? (drummergirl)

Bridget: I think Kahlan’s worst fears wouldn’t be that far off from what was happening to Richard (Craig Horner) in “Perdition.” Oh, I can’t imagine poor Kahlan seeing Richard with a child and a wife he loves. Heartbreaking!

TVStar: Even though so many of us adore the show, there are some fans of the book series who complain that the show is far too different. What’s your take on that? (pristinelyungifted)

Bridget: I can understand and sympathize. “Eat, Pray, Love” was such a special book to me when I read it, and I’m a little scared to see the film for fear that it would change my memories of the book that I cherish so much. But on the other hand, I so badly want to relive those moments and be inside them and the film will let me do that. Books are a private, imaginative, and personal experience, where television is a collaborative and shared experience. So I suppose a book is never going to be exactly the same as the memory.

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Thanks to our viewer, Eleonora for catching my mistake. This is the first part not the second.

Slice of SciFi also has a new interview with Bridget. You can listen to it below.

Thanks So Very Blue.

OK, so we hear this weekend’s episode is a big one for Kahlan—tell us what’s she in for.
The episode is called “Torn” and Kahlan is summoned to Aydindril, which is her home normally, and where the Mother Confessor would preside and live. She goes, and something really horrible happens, and Kahlan gets literally split into two. So, I have the absolute pleasure of playing nearly two different roles. And one side or the other can completely go out of control, especially when one side has this magical power that can really take over when it’s not balanced with emotion and compassion and so forth.

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Can you talk about the big episode coming up?

Bridget Regan: Yeah, this weekend. It’s called ‘Torn’ and it’s been the most fun I’ve had on the show yet to date and it’s definitely going to be hard to top. Kahlan gets summoned to go to Aydindril where she would normally preside as Mother Confessor, kind of ruling over the land and things. She get summoned to go there and this amulet that’s supposed to take her there, something goes wrong and half of her stays with Richard and the other half of her goes to Aydindril. So she’s actually just split in two. The part that goes to Aydindril is The Confessor that puts duty above love and really is a leader. Then the other part of her that stays with Richard is all love and all heart and is just really emotions. The episode sort of explores this idea that we have all these different parts of ourselves in us but without the balance of the counterpart you can really go far to the extremes, to the left or to the right. So it was really like playing two new characters as well as Kahlan in this episode and so I just got to have a ball. It was so fun. I was quite busy switching costumes and running around and being in every single setup and every shot. But it was so cool and I’m really excited for everyone to see it.

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TTO: I wanted to ask you about your new costume this season, which, needless to say, is very popular.

BR: Yeah, it’s funny, because it looks so different from how Kahlan looked before, but the funny part about it is a lot of it I’ve always worn. I’ve always worn this corset under my white dress. The belt I’ve always worn, I’ve always worn black boots — they did extend them up for me, because I was really into the thigh-high boot look.

She has a skirt that she’s worn, but I’ve kind of said, “Well, Kahlan ripped and slipped it, so she could get her high kicks in.” We collaborate, the costumer, Jane Holland, who is a fricking legend, I just adore her. We collaborated on it, and the new jacket is the same cut as the traveling coat, and it was like [Kahlan] ripped out the lining of it and cut it short.

I wanted to make her more of a warrior, making it more practical. Some days I’m out in the woods in my white dress, and I [was] thinking, “Could there be anything more ridiculous?” Everybody always asks, “How do you keep that white dress so white?”

Anyway, I wanted it to be more fighter-friendly, and it really is. And it’s bad-ass, and I like the idea of Cara rubbing off on her too, [even though] she should hate this woman, this Mord-Sith. That’s the best part of the show for me right now.

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TVStar will make an interview with Bridget, and they are askingfor  our help! So if you have a question for her, go to their site and fire away! You can win an autographed photo too!

We’ve got some questions of our own that we’re planning to ask Regan when we talk again in the next week or so. But the rest of the questions, well, they’ll need to come from you, the fans, our readers. Want to know if Kahlan and Richard (Craig Horner) are ever going to get together, or which episodes to date are Regan’s top five? Ask away. Eager to hear how Regan and Tabrett Bethell get along, or what Regan makes of all those Wonder Woman rumors that just won’t go away? Put those questions to Regan. It’ll work like this: simply post your questions in the comments section on this page and we’ll include them when we connect with Regan.

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The site xenite.org has got an exclusive interview Craig Horner. Great, great interview! Check it out
*For those who didn’t read the books, and don’t like spoilers, don’t read the last paragraph in the second page*

When we spoke on the phone Craig was still working on the second season, with five more episodes to shoot. How does it feel compared to this point in your schedule last year? I asked. “Pretty grueling,” Craig confessed. “When it’s all done I can rest and recoup and I can really enjoy that. I guess last year I knew the day I wrapped I would go to the United States.”

Not for rest and relaxation. Apparently Craig was sent on a whirlwind press tour to help promote the show. This year he is hoping to appear at a major convention in the United States. He’s pretty excited about that as it came up a couple of times. If it happens this will be Craig’s first American entertainment event.

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How confident were you that Legend of the Seeker would be picked up for a second season?

I was pretty confident. When our makeup artist bought herself a new car, I was pretty sure then. I was like, “You wouldn’t be buying that car if you didn’t think we were going again.” (Producer) Rob Tapert had told me it was 99.9%. But there’s that skeptic inside of you that goes, “I don’t want to count on this and then not have an idea of what I’d do if it didn’t go on.” I was pretty sure, though. I felt like we were getting into a really great groove at the end of season one, and season two is, I think, already a real better show than it was last year.

What’s your sense of Kahlan this year? And where is she headed?

I keep thinking she and Richard are so good and I don’t understand why they’re not together. I’m constantly reminded of a scene from the book Wizard’s First Rule. It’s my favorite scene in the book. Kahlan and Richard are in the Spirit House and, in order to conjure up the spirits of the mud people, you have to get completely naked and painted with all these tribal symbols and things. So, they’re in the Spirit House and they’re naked together, and it’s just so hot. That section of the book is (told) in Kahlan’s voice, and she’s thinking, “God, what if I could just take him? I could just do this (using her magical powers).” And she’s almost rationalizing it. I love it. I constantly go back to that part of the book because that’s how much she wants to be a woman, but she can’t.

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