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.