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