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.

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.

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.

Absolutely. I remember reading that Christian Bale said when he was filming a massive movie you need some kind of hobby, whether it’s fixing an old bike or something else where you can just go home and take your mind off it. I guess it’s that for me, but also music is just as much of a passion for me as acting. So it’s just that little creative outlet; when you’re emotionally drained from having a massive day of acting, just silly singing, silly dancing, rocking out man. I just love it.

Have you always been a fan of fantasy or was the whole swords and sorcery world new to you?

I was a massive fan of fantasy. I had an older brother who was about thirteen years older than me and he brought me into the world of Conan and star Wars. He had all these movies lying around, he had comic books everywhere; he had lots of the original Star Wars figures. I was easily brought into that world of fantasy. There wasn’t a day when I wasn’t running around the back yard with swords and killing imaginary orcs.

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August, 2009.

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.

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.

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.

We are trying to do a film in fast turnaround TV time, you know? And we just can’t afford shooting on film I mean, we just don’t have the budget. What we want to recreate in other areas, set designs, visual effects and make-up, you know, by doing this great HD technology, we’re afforded [to be able to] keep rolling, keep going with fast turnarounds and a lot of the time we’ll keep the camera rolling for new ideas, keep it going, pick it up, just to get through it. ‘Cause if we had film we wouldn’t have time to do that. You’d need a lot more rehearsal time and we don’t have a lot of time for rehearsal to be honest actually.

I’m going to go off topic a bit here for a moment. Did you watch the sitcom Friends? Because I read that you enjoy playing soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, skiing, snowboarding and kayaking. Now is this actually true or are any these resume fillers like Joey had on that show?

[Laughs] That’s hilarious! Yeah, yeah, look, I’ll admit, I did the old “resume inflation.” I kind of embellished a bit but look, I’d say about 80% of that is true. I have actually been kayaking and snowboarding.

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March, 2009.

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

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.