Let’s go back to season one. How pleased were you with initial set-up of the story and the characters, and what intrigued you most about the way in which the season unfolded?
At first I wasn’t so sure about the idea of Kahlan and Richard not being instant friends when they meet, like in the book, as well as Richard hardly knowing Zedd. In the end, this proved to be an effective dramatic change. It created conflict, which makes for good TV.

Take us through your experience doing season one. What was it like to suddenly be in pretty much every scene of every episode, to have such a physically demanding role, to do all the publicity as the face of the show, and to become something of a sex symbol?
(Laughing) I don’t know about the sex symbol thing, but yes, my schedule was chaotic and still is. I burned myself out by episode 7 and passed out on set. Since then I’ve learned a way to pace myself. I power nap as much as I can, and have no social life! But it’s kind of funny — as much as I wish for free time, the only day I had off this year I was like, “What’s happening on set?! What are they doing without me?! I’m bored!”

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November, 2009.

Roni: “First of all, tell us from last season until now what’s happened, catch us up!”

Bridget: ” Season 2 picks up right where we left off and the crazy thing is when we finished season 1, we felt like it was over we felt like we had won because there was a prophecy that Richard, the part that Craig plays, was going to kill this evil guy Dark and Rile, who’s been ruling the midlands, this world we live in as a crazy leader. And we defeated him, we killed him, well he killed him, I just kind of helped. He combined all these forms of magic and when he did that this kind of explosion happened and when he did that we learned that there was this tear that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead. So now there’s these creatures that we’ve never seen and people that we’ve killed that are coming back to get us and it’s a bit of chaos. So now we’re out to defeat the Keeper, who is Mr. Baddy number one and we have some help Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander, and Cara the Mord-sith that was in the season finale of season 1, which will be airing in the 2 hour event, and we’re back to right some wrong.”

Roni: “Tell us what we’ll see during the season premiere, and all of the different characters we’re going to meet, and the people that are returning from season 1.”

Craig: “We saw Cara for the first time in the finale of season 1 and she is back in season 2. She proves to be a valuable asset to me, so I can use her in certain ways.”

Bridget: “And I’m not convinced, I think she’s trouble, but we also has a wonderful actress Charisma Carpenter who plays a high ranking Mord-sith in the first episode of season 2 as well. You might know her from Buffy. We have some really great guests this year, we have Jolene Blalock coming up, she was in Star Trek, and a lot of great actors. Amy T Garden from Friday Night Lights, Gabriel Men from Mad Men, and just a lot. They’ve really stepped up their game, we’ve had some really great guests to come out and play with us, and of course a lot of local talent from New Zealand and Australia.”

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November, 2009.

UGO: As far as learning to swing swords around and handle yourself on a horse, what kind of training did you get?

Craig: We were lucky when we got here (New Zealand). The production was pushed back three weeks because the scripts weren’t ready so myself and a fellow castmate were here with nothing to do so they filled up our days with horse riding and fight training and all this kind of stuff. It was really cool! We dont get much time for training now with shooting – it’s a bit hectic – but in between set ups we’ll go and learn how to shoot a bow or something of that nature because we have to do it for a scene. And all the stunt coordinators are same people who worked on Hercules and Xena, it’s all the same folks and they’re really amazing people. Also we’ve got the horse wrangler from Lord of the Rings, they’re just great people to work with.

UGO: What’s it like shooting on location in New Zealand?

Craig:It’s amazing! It’s like this prehistoric, untouched dinosaur land and you don’t have to go far from Auckland to get to these incredible places and you get out there and it’s just all this green. I’m from Australia and it’s kind of a dry country and when I got here there’s all these green rolling hills and sheep everywhere, cows and cattle. And the forests are amazing with these big scary looking trees and beautiful waterfalls.

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January, 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.

Kahlan is pretty badass!
[Laughs] I’m fighting large men like three times a week. Certainly, I’m not scared of bumps in the night anymore. I feel like I could take a guy. I feel pretty tough!

There must be times where you wish you had her confessor power…
Oh my gosh, absolutely not! I think about it often and at first it sounds really great, bending anyone to your will, but the mythology of it is a bit more complicated than that. The character that I play, she’s proud to be who she is, but at the same time it’s a burden, because it’s almost like being a judge or holding someone’s life in your hands. You want to do the right thing—you’re responsible for these people.

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May, 2009