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.

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.

I’ve read that you enjoy playing the guitar and writing music. Is that something you try to do between filming?

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.

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.