Besides that have you taken up any new hobbies since you’ve been living in New Zealand?

Yeah, absolutely. First of all I’m a proud pet owner. I just got a puppy a couple of weeks ago and I got a cat last year. I have this very domestic life that I didn’t have in Manhattan a year ago, where I was living the city life, staying up until three in the morning. Whereas now I’m up at four in the morning, going to bed like a granny at nine. Also enjoying nature, a bit of surfing. Whenever the weather’s good in New Zealand we really appreciate it just because there’s so much rain here. I love living out here, there’s something in the landscape and the natural beauty that has this magical quality. I feel like the country is a main character in the show.

Would you have been so interested in playing the role if she was just a standard damsel in distress?

I don’t think I would have been as attracted to it. Just because I feel like that has been done so many times. I think she’s got a lot of complexity about her, which is my favourite thing about her. I think playing a damsel in distress would get really old and boring, getting rescued every day; I don’t think I could do it.

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August, 2009.

Do you do your own stunts?

Bridget Regan: I do. Occasionally they won’t let me do things like jump out of trees or roll downhills, and I have an amazing stunt woman – she has work on everything down here. She takes over when they won’t let me do it. And also there’s a lot of coverage they can do. We have two units going all the time for the show because we film so fast, so she’ll do stuff for me there when I can’t be there. But yes, I do almost everything and it’s freaking fun, I love this, it’s such a cool part of my job.

If you could only confess one person in real life who would it be?

Bridget Regan: Oh my God, what a question! Well, I don’t think I would want to confess anyone, it seems quite brutal. It probably would have to be somebody really, really bad, who really needed some turn around. I like the idea that Kahlan doesn’t want to do it, and she kind of hates her power and she wishes she was just a normal woman, that’s one of my favorite things about it, the complex feelings she has for what she is. So… it would have to be somebody really, really bad.

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February, 2009.

IGN: How faithful is the TV show to the books?

Regan: You know, what I think is faithful are the characters. Richard and Kahlan. I think that Craig (Horner, who plays Richard Cypher) and I are really staying true to who those people are in the book and their relationship. A lot of things happen really early in Legend that will happen later in the book, and there are some things that don’t even happen in the book that happen in the series.

IGN: How is it filming down in New Zealand?

Regan: It’s great. It’s perfect for the show. It’s absolutely perfect. The crew and everyone who’s working on it…there’s been so much filming there since, you know, Lord of the Rings. They worked on King Kong and Narnia, Last Samurai. There’ve just been a lot of movies that have been filmed there.

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October, 2008.

Q: Do you see an overarching story?

A: I know where we’re going to end up at the end of 22 episodes. Certain things came up way before I thought they would. In an upcoming episode called “Conversion,” Kahlan and Richard actually meet Rahl, and I didn’t think we would until the very end. I was thrilled, mostly because I’ve been a really big fan of Craig Parker’s work and he’s always on another unit — we never get to see him. He’s actually a really popular New Zealand actor, so it was like a celebrity sighting.

Q: What’s the hardest part about playing Kahlan?

A: Sometimes I struggle to find parallels in my life. “When’s the last time I encountered a 6′10″ monster trying to kill me?” That’s what I’m doing at work on Monday — I have to hop on this monster’s back and try and kill him. I sometimes struggle relating that to my own life, so I’ve had to throw that out the window certain days and just go, “You’re not Bridget. You’re Kahlan,” and just believe in it like a little kid playing in the back yard — you run around and you scream like hell.

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February, 2009

Bridget Regan, Kahlan’s relationships, at least early on, will be primarily with Richard and Zedd. Give us a feeling for how she feels toward them …

Regan: The relationship between Kahlan and Zedd is so cool, because Zedd is a wizard and Kahlan is a Confessor, and in Terry Goodkind’s world a wizard always travels with a Confessor to protect her and to use his powers when needed. Because this is at a time when things are really falling apart at the seams and wizards have been killed and Confessors are being sought out and murdered by this evil force, Darken Rahl, Zedd and Kahlan are brought together in a search to find the Seeker, who is Richard. So I think that Kahlan and Zedd have this mutual respect and knowledge of each other’s powers, while Richard is learning as he goes what a wizard is, what a Confessor is, and what they can do. So, Bruce and I have really found this cool relationship of just checking each other out all the time and clocking one another and having this sense of knowing. Bruce is just so lovely to work with, and we have this unique, special, almost father-daughter relationship, but at the same time Kahlan and Zedd are equals. We’re on equal ground. So it’s really quite bizarre, because you have this wonderful 6-foot-7 old man that has all this knowledge, and I’m in this white dress and walking about, and we’re in it together.

And how about Richard?

Regan: Now, Richard and Kahlan, their relationship is just epic. They have that kind of connection you dream of having with someone, where you’d just do anything for them without blinking an eye. You’d just lay down your life in a heartbeat for them. I want to say it’s love, but I think it’s deeper than that. It’s a connection where they have the same purpose in life, so they’re connecting in that sense on their journey to defeat Darken Rahl, but at the same time there’s no one she’d rather be doing this with more than Richard. I find that so lovely. Yesterday I was in a dungeon looking through this tiny little window, grasping at his hands. It’s like the end of the world, but she’s just so happy to see him because she does love him … even though she can’t have him.

*This interview was originally from here, and found via Her Blue Eyes.
November, 2008.