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.

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.

With Halloween this past week, it’s no surprise that a variety of fright flicks have flooded the channels including actor Craig Horner’s See No Evil, a gruesome horror featuring a bunch of teenage delinquents being targeted by a sadistic psychopath while cleaning a rundown hotel.

“I thought See No Evil was great!” offers an enthusiastic Horner. “That was the first American production I had done. We shot it in Australia at the Warner Brothers studio there with a fellow friend and former roommate, Rachel Taylor, who is actually doing well in the U.S. market. It was a six week shoot and a lot of fun.”

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November, 2008.

Filmed in New Zealand, which seems to be the country-of-choice for anything fantasy since “Lord of the Rings” was filmed there so many years ago, “Legend of the Seeker” is based on the popular “Sword of Truth” book series by Terry Goodkind. The series is superbly filmed, though New Zealand’s countryside definitely is attributes to the all-around beauty of the shots. Upon first viewing, one would assume that “Seeker” is a movie rather than a television series.

The series is the first film version of Goodkind’s best-selling novels and is produced by super-hero gurus, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert (Xena and Hercules). “Seeker” will be the first nationally syndicated fantasy series in a long while. Normally such a series would only be picked up by the Sci-Fi channel or some other cable outlet, leaving those of us without cable to ho hum to ourselves and hide our jealousy.

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October, 2008.

Is it weird filming the series in New Zealand when its not actually airing in New Zealand yet?
CH:  Totally, totally – it really is man.  It’s not even here, like no one really knows anything about it.  It comes out in like three weeks but we’ll be done and I’ll be in America.  It’s been kind of perfect, like you get to come to another country, like concentrate totally on the job.  Have no external kind of factors, no people going “can we get on the show blah blah”.  You’re just totally in your own little environment, it’s kinda cool man, it’s like you’re own little secret society.   We’re like chucking it in America for millions and yet we’re in our own little world here, it’s fun.

I once wrote that Bruce Spence’s Zeddicus is the best wizard since Ian McKellan’s Gandalf – who would win in a real fight, Bruce Spence or Ian McKellan?
CH: Yeah wicked!  I think ah, maybe Ian McKellan, because, ah, Zed might be just like “you know what, you can have this one, I’m just going to eat this bread roll instead.”

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March, 2008