Sam Rami and crew bring Terry Goodkind’s best-selling series to TV with Legend of the Seeker
November 3, 2008 by Ian Spelling

[HBE.com note: We've extracted just Bridget's part of the article, click the link at the end to read the entire thing.]

Wizard’s First Rule, the first book in Terry Goodkind’s popular The Sword of Truth series, came to life this weekend as a nationally syndicated television show entitled Legend of the Seeker. And it’s not just some random, fly-by-night production, but rather Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s long-awaited return to television following such shows as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Cleopatra 2525 and Jack of All Trades.

Legend of the Seeker, which kicked off this weekend, stars Bridget Regan, Craig Horner and Bruce Spence. Horner plays Richard, a young guide whose ordinary existence takes a turn for the bizarre when he discovers that he’s a Seeker, a figure destined to protect his world, the Midlands, from the encroaching evil of Darken Rahl (Craig Parker). By the prophesied one’s side are Kahlan (Regan), a beautiful Confessor with unique magical powers, and Zedd (Spence). Viewers can expect romance, or unconsummated romance, since Kahlan and Richard have the hots for each other but can’t act on it, as well as plenty of action, fights and visual effects.

SCI FI Weekly recently spoke with Raimi, Tapert, Regan and Horner. Raimi and Tapert were together on a conference call with reporters, while Regan and Horner took the phone separately for exclusive conversations.

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.

Take us through that part of the equation. She can’t have him, yet in every scene they look as if they’re going to jump each other …

Regan: There’s that, too. It’s quite tense, and they’re walking this very thin line of very strong attraction for each other and having to resist at all times. It is quite taut, this tension, this electricity between the two of them. They get put in situations that add to it. We’re sleeping next to each other every night. We’re traveling together. They’re very physically close together, fighting bad guys together, back to back. You’re sweating and you’re hot and when you’re done you look up at each other, and all you want to do is rip each other’s clothes off, but you can’t.

How are you enjoying working with Craig Horner?

Regan: Craig is great, awesome. The coolest thing about Craig and I is that we both got the jobs, packed our bags, moved to New Zealand and dove into it. And that kind of mirrors Richard and Kahlan, who both have to just go off with each other, say goodbye to their former lives, turn a new page and start this new life with each other. I love that, and Craig and I really have connected in a great way that makes it quite easy to stare at each other all day. And he’s easy on the eyes. It’s not bad to go to work.

We’ve heard that you haven’t met Terry Goodkind, but your family has? Is that true?

Regan: Yes. I haven’t talked to Terry. I’m from San Diego, and my parents and sister still live there. They went to Comic-Con this year, and they met Terry Goodkind and Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi and everybody. So I haven’t met Terry, but my mom has.

Found here: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw19773.html

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