ROLE TO DYE FOR ; Bridget lost Stunning trademark red locks to star as telly warrior
by John Millar

SWORDS and sorcery star Bridget Regan made the ultimate sacrifice to land her dream role – she dyed her beloved red hair.

The glamorous actress had to swap her natural shade for raven locks to play Kahlan, the warrior hero of hit fantasy series Legend Of The Seeker.

She joked: “I’m the black sheep of the family now. All my family have red hair.”

The TV adventures are based on Terry Goodkind’s Sword Of Truth novels.

Bridget, 28, whose family have Celtic roots, said: “The books also say my character has green eyes so I thought I would be wearing contact lenses. But luckily they went with blue eyes.

“Sometimes I miss my red hair and I think I’ll go back to it eventually. It was chemically straightened and dyed for the show so it needs a bit of rest and recovery.”

Read the rest of the interviews here: http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/149194039

DragonCon is coming! For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, DragonCon is one of the largest SciFi/Fantasy conventions in the US. The Seeker Cast has a spiffy list of all the planed Legend of the Seeker events here: http://www.theseekercast.com/2010/06/dcon2010/ If you are planning to attend DragonCon and want to do a nice write up for us to use here on the site, we’d be ever so grateful.

And, because Chris and I can’t go and see all the pretty Kahlans ourselves, we’re going to run a contest. We want pictures of Kahlans at DragonCon and we’re not above a bit of bribery to get them. Simply take a picture of a Kahlan or two at DragonCon and send it to us. We’re going to give away a copy of Legend of the Seeker Season 2 on DVD (or the Amazon gift certificate equivalent, your choice) to the best Kahlan picture. You have to have taken the picture yourself or you have to be the person in the picture and someone took the photo for you. Kahlan doesn’t have to be the only person in the picture, but she needs to be in there somewhere. It can be one Kahlan, a group of Kahlans, a group shot with 20 people and only on Kahlan… etc. Email your pictures to contests [at] herblueeyes.com by midnight on Monday, September 13 . We will put all the entries we receive up in the gallery for everyone to admire and you are welcome to submit as many pictures as you wish.

This is just the first of three or four Season 2 giveaways/contests that we have planned leading up to release day, so if you can’t make it to DragonCon, stop back by in the upcoming weeks to see what else we’ve got going on.

This turned up in my inbox today and let me just say that this individual is crazy talented. So head on over to YouTube and check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv_nz4s7cKo

The winners of our Runway magazine giveaway are:

Sparty
Wolfi
Debbie
Sarah
Fuat

Congratulations guys! You should have received an email from me looking for your address. If not, please email me your addresses (Lindsey [at] herblueeyes.com) and I’ll get the magazine in the mail to you.

The contest is now closed! Check back later today to find out who the winners are!

An interview with Bridget appears in the summer edition of Runway Magazine. It’s a nice blend of fashion and Legend of the Seeker and there are some REALLY nice black and white photos with it.  You can find the magazine in most of the major US bookstores and, oddly enough, in Target. You can also buy a digital copy of it on Zino, starting Tuesday, here: http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issn=1945-2136&o=ext.

And, because we just love you all so much, we’ve got 5 copies of the magazine to give away! Just leave us a comment on this post within the next 24 hours to enter and we’ll randomly select 5 winners. We’re international friendly so if you’re outside the US feel free to enter.

As some of you all know, I’ve been threatening to retheme the site for a few months. I’ve been holding off because shortly after I had that brilliant idea Wordpress announced that they were working on Wordpress 3.0 and it would be released sometime around… well now. If you’ve never had the fun of internet programming, a major new version of a program usually screws up the old theme when you upgrade. As 3.0 promised to have several things that I wanted functionality wise I’ve been putting off the retheme until the new version came out. That brings us to now. 3.0 is out today and over the next week or so I’m going to be putting together our new theme and doing the upgrade and I’m looking for input from you all. Is there something you’d like the site to do that it doesn’t do currently? Maybe some spiffy thing that you saw on another site and thought, man I wish HBE did that! Let me know in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.

A few days back we posted about The Torch Online’s Sexiest Woman of Fantasy, 2009-2010 poll, and boy did you all vote! When I posted, Bridget’s Kahlan was in a dead heat with Tabrett Bethel’s excellent Cara but Kahlan pulled way ahead to win by 5% in the end. Doing a little math, or rather having my calculator do a little math, since around 4,700 votes were cast that means that 1,551votes were for Kahlan and that only 235 votes separated her and Cara. It’s apparently random statistics day here on HBE, I hope you’ve enjoyed it.

You can read The Torch Online’s (really funny) write up of the winners here: http://thetorchonline.com/2010/06/14/the-sexiest-woman-of-fantasy-2010-results/

Eek, in the category of things I meant to stay on top of (but totally failed at) are all of the Legend of the Seeker auctions going on over on eBay. But as a white confessor dress has come up, I figured you all might be interested it. I totally confess to having dropped the ball when they auctioned off Kahlan’s black dress last week (sorry anyone who had well over $2,000 to spend on it). On a side note, I’m totally blown away by the prices some of this merchandise is fetching. Anyway, eBayer SeekerLivesOn is currently auctioning off Dayna’s white dress, Kahlan’s black boots, and a MordSith costume. Click here to see those auctions: http://shop.ebay.com/seekerliveson/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50

Also, Bridget’s stunt double Dayna has put a set of the Boxes of Orden up for sale here: http://item.ebay.com/230488284251

Bridget’s interview from last week’s Monte Carlo TV Festival is up and you can watch it below. Thanks to CineTVBuzz for allowing us to post the interview and letting our readers submit questions.

Over on The Torch Online they are holding a poll over the Sexiest Women of Fantasy, 2009-2010. Of course, Kahlan is an option (as is Cara). You can visit the poll over on The Torch’s site here: http://thetorchonline.com/2010/06/03/the-sexiest-women-of-fantasy-2009-2010/

The poll is now closed! Click here for the results: http://herblueeyes.com/2010/06/15/winner-of-the-sexiest-woman-of-fantasy-poll/