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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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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Has the popularity of the show begun to sink in?
Craig Horner: Man I am so isolated from everything it’s crazy. And because we’re still in it and shooting, I work really long hours only to get home, put on a DVD or pick up a book and get ready for the next day of work. We don’t even have the show here [in New Zealand] but I’m starting to hear things here and there and I’m able to get on the net, but really, I’m just concentrating on work at the moment and finishing up the season. It’s kind of crazy.

Fans have really responded to your chemistry with your co-star Bridget Regan (who plays Kahlan Amnell), what’s your working relationship like?
It’s great. We’re both Aquarians and Aquarians tend to get along together. We’re both fans of the book, similar ages, both love acting and really try and make our scenes together really sincere. It’s great to work with an actress who’s not just showing up to collect a paycheck. Bridget really cares about the job.

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This first season is far from over. Which has been the best episode so far, and why?

Regan: I felt that “Denna,” our eighth episode, was the one where we all really felt we’d found our footing. That was when we had Jessica Marais come in to play [the Mord'Sith] Denna. That episode, as far as the writing, was the most faithful to the book. I felt that, in the beginning, the writers wanted to be really creative and come up with their own stories and have these episodes that had a beginning, middle and end. That’s a hard thing, because the book is such a long-term journey, but they want each episode to have its own story, which has been the hardest part of it, because I love the book. But when they do follow it, which they did in “Denna,” it had the grit and the violence and pain that Terry Goodkind paints so well in his books. The stakes are so high, and that episode really hit the nail on the head.

What do you want to see for Kahlan next season? What have you tasted that you want more of? What’s not clicking that you’d like to see improved?

Regan: I love the relationships that have developed, like with Kahlan and Zedd [Bruce Spence]. They have such mutual respect for each other, and I love working with Bruce. He’s literally one of the nicest, coolest, funniest men you could ever know, and I hope that we get to explore that relationship more, because in the mythology of the books the Confessor and the Wizard have a long-standing relationship. When I get to do scenes with Bruce, it’s such a treat. So I hope that we explore that more.

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