Gravity of Love

2.08 Light

2010-01-19T22:31:00.000-08:00

2.07 - Resurrection

2010-01-11T10:51:00.002-08:00

Undisclosed Desires - Muse

2010-01-10T11:40:00.001-08:00

I know you suffered
But I don't want you to hide
It's cold and loveless
I won't let you be denied
Soothe me
I'll make you feel pure
Trust me
You can be sure
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcize the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
You trick your lovers that you're wicked and devine
You may be a sinner
But your innocence is mine
Please me
Show me how it's done
Tease me
You are the one
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcize the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart
Please me
Show me how it's done
Trust me
You are the one
I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcize the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart

Touched Picspam

2009-12-01T15:04:00.000-08:00

Depois de assistir ao episódio Touched

é impossivel não se inspirar

pra fazer um picspam

Promos de 2.04 - Touched

2009-11-24T13:51:00.000-08:00

Fotos do proximo episodio, com a participação especial de Aimee Teegarden, de Friday Night Lights.

Mais fotos: Legend of the Seeker

Teaser 2.04 - Touched

2009-11-24T13:42:00.001-08:00

Bridget's tweets

2009-11-19T12:42:00.000-08:00

- Still in the midst of the mighty episode 11... This is totally the most fun I've had yet this season...

- and not just cause of the kissy kissy!

- Ted Rami back down undah!

Fonte: Bridget's Twitter

Teaser 2.03 - Broken

2009-11-17T09:50:00.001-08:00

Promos de 2.03 - Broken

2009-11-17T09:32:00.000-08:00

Fotos promocionais do proximo episódio:

Mais fotos: Legend of the Seeker

TVGuide

2009-11-12T20:20:00.001-08:00

Entrevista de 6 de Novembro.

Detalhe para a cara de Bridget quando Craig responde se namoraria uma confessora ou uma mord'sith... e Shirley, a ovelha *lol*

Art stuff

2009-11-11T13:27:00.000-08:00

Alguns icons Richlan para foruns, blogs e afins

Sword&Sorcery

Promos de 2.02 - Baneling

2009-11-09T19:57:00.000-08:00

Fotos promocionais do proximo episódio:

Mais: Legend of the Seeker

Teaser 2.02 - Baneling

2009-11-09T19:54:00.001-08:00

Mais um episodio dirigido por Michael Hurst.

Adorei os episodios que ele dirigiu na temporada passada (Denna, Sacrifice e Reckoning) pois, coincidencia ou não, foram alguns dos que mais trataram das emoções dos personagens e a julgar por esse teaser da Kahlan com ciumes da Cara parece que Baneling vai no mesmo rumo dos outros episodios já dirigidos pelo Michael =)

The PCZ Interview With Craig Horner From ‘Legend Of The Seeker’

2009-11-09T00:11:00.000-08:00

*CONTÉM SPOILER*

Australian actor Craig Horner returns this weekend to the lead role of Richard Cypher in the syndicated series Legend of the Seeker. Last week, while he was on a break in shooting, I spoke to Craig on the phone. In addition to being a terrific actor, Craig is also a great person and really fun to talk to. Don’t forget to read our interview with Craig’s co-star, Bridget Regan and check back on Monday when we share our thoughts on the second season premiere.

PCZ: Hey Craig, thanks for taking the time to talk to me today.

CRAIG HORNER: Hey,man, thanks.

PCZ: Congratulations on the second season.

CH: Thank you very much.

PCZ: To start off with, how do you feel about the progression of Richard over the course of the first season?

CH: I love where he’s going and the combination of the writers doing their thing, the writers kind of looking at my personality. When I started this show as an actor I knew I had twenty-two one hour episodes to develop a character and it was great. We start him off as literally this innocent farm boy, he just has no idea what magic is or anything like that. He doesn’t want anything to do with it, but has good personal qualities that when any kind of situation is thrust upon him he can use his morals, I guess you could say, to attack the situation and rise to the challenge. So, I used those twenty-two episodes to really go let’s start him at zero and end him at hero so that when we start season two he can just jump straight into it and be ready for whatever. He’s a man now and his challenge starts straight off in the first episode of season two as he gets, literally, the D’Haran army, the guys he’s been fighting, saying you have to lead us now because you’re the next Lord Rahl. He’s now, like, leading armies of both forces to try and fight an even greater force, which is the Keeper, basically the devil if you will.

PCZ: Yeah, you guys go from celebrating your victory right into you’re the brother of Rahl, you have this huge army and the forces of darkness are rising.

CH: I know, right? I mean, gosh, man, do we ever have a day where we’re just chilling out? (laughs)

PCZ: In the premiere, though, Richard does kind of turn his back on owning Rahl’s army. Does that come back into play later?

CH: (pause) I can’t tell you too much…actually, to be honest, we’re only shooting episode eleven right now and I’ve kind of gone off on a solo journey to kind of embrace Richard’s wizard powers that are coming through him. Right now that’s important because I’m getting these incredible headaches that wizards get when they stop feeling their powers. Mine are unbearable and I will die if I don’t get them controlled. I’ve actually left Kahlan and Zed for a little while and Richard’s learning to grow as a wizard.

PCZ: Interesting. Now how has it been adding a new member to the cast this year.

CH: It’s cool. Us three, Bridget, Bruce and me, our characters are so wholesome, they’re the good guys. Now they have this girl who has her own agendas, she’s like, “I don’t care about any of you, I’m only here because I’m sworn to serve Richard. I’ll die fighting forhim, but I don’t like any of you and I’m not ashamed to say it.” And that kind of good versus bad mix in the main group of heroes is really, really good to have because you’ll always have conflict and, let’s face it, conflict makes good TV.

PCZ: Had you read any of Terry Goodkind’s books prior to starting the series?

CH: Yes, when I was gearing up for my final audition for the role of Richard I read Wizard’s First Rule. It was my friend who put me on to it actually. When I told him I was audition for what at the time was called Wizard’s First Rule, he was like, “Oh my god, I love that book and the others that follow! You’ve got to get this role, you’d be a great Richard, please read it.” So, I read the book before I had the job. But then once I got the job I had about six weeks before we started shooting and I was in New Zealand the whole time and we had time to do horse training and fight training and, basically, we didn’t have a script so we could just read the book to get our characters down. Now I’m just on the second book because we’re kind of following the second book in the main arc, we’re on the search for the Stone of Tears and that’s essentially the second book. We don’t want to just go verbatim, you know? We’re bringing Cara in now, Cara doesn’t come in until later in the book series. We’re bringing her in now to take Richard to the Palace of the Prophets at some stage, we might do it earlier, we might do it later than it happens in the books. To be honest, I think that’s the best way you can do it. I know a lot of people said, “It’s got to be an exact replica of the book and if not I don’t want anything to do with it.” I think the fans of the book would want to see something different, I’m a fan and I do. I want a surprise. I don’t want to be like, “Oh, I remember when this happens, that means in the next episode he does this…yeah, that’s kind of boring, I don’t really want to see that.” Also, you look at Star Wars and when those first three films came out it wasn’t long after that you had books, novels by completely random writers, you would have comic books and your own fan fiction, you would have video games. It doesn’t matter, you pick up a Star Wars book and you know what a lightsaber is, you know what a Jedi is and you’re away. You can just have these different adventures, so, why not do that?

PCZ: And it seems like if you’re going to do it, you’ve got to be able to put your own stamp on it.

CH: Totally. I mean, let’s face it, 95% of our viewers won’t have read the book, that’s just the truth, ok? First of all ,why stress out about catering to 5% of the population? Second of all, you’re talking about 2.5% of that 5% actually freaking love what we’ve done with the show and love the books. There’s maybe a minute group out there who are like, “NO! KAHLAN’S EYES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GREEN! AND RICHARD HAS GRAY EYES!” How the hell do you have gray eyes, man, come on! (laughs)

PCZ: (laughs) Ok, yeah, I agree with you there. Ok, so I totally have to ask this, does it add any extra layer to the acting when you have to use an accent that’s not your own?

CH: Absolutely. In fact, it kind of allows me to get into the character a little bit more because it doesn’t resemble me. When you’re doing an Australian accent you’ll start putting your own inflections on it and you can’t help that. When you are speaking like you don’t speak at all I think it actually helps and is not a hindrance. You can’t really worry about the accent, you need to have done your practice and know you’ve done the best you can and do the scene. For some of the guest-stars the accent can be a bit of a problem, especially actors with a strong Kiwi accent. They’ll be doing fine, but they’ll start thinking about it sometimes and stressing out about it, but, hey, we’re in the Midlands, man, we’re not in California, so if they do slip up a little bit or they say a word slightly different no one’s gonna go, “Ah, that’s not American.”

PCZ: Right, who’s to say what the Midlands accent is.

CH: Exactly! Graig Parker, our Darken Rahl, has an English accent and Bruce has kind of developed what he likes to call a “wizard accent” where he just goes, (imitates Bruce Spence) “I’m just trying to talk like this and I make Richard sound really powerful!” (laughs) Whatever makes you feel like Zed, you do that.

PCZ: I saw in some of the behind the scenes features on the season one DVD set that it looks like you guys are all just great friends. I think that translates well to the characters on the show.

CH: That’s true, man, that’s true. We do have a really, really good energy. I’ve been doing this for nine years now and this is the first time I’ve been the lead. And I knew, having watched leads before, I knew the power they have in terms of setting the tone on set and the right kind of vibe. If your lead is an…asshole or a bitch people don’t want to make you look good. If they don’t like you, why would they want to work with you? You’re their bread and butter and if you come on set and you’re the lead and you have one of the most gruel ling schedules and you have a lot on your shoulders, but you’re so enthusiastic and you love the show then everyone will just automatically up their game. You can’t have the lead of a show really excited and the props guy going, “Eh, no, I’m not doing that buddy.” So every department just ups their game. That’s not saying I’m solely responsible, they are all just fantastic people, I just knew that I do have an influential role, so the best I can do is just go in and make everyday enjoyable. You know what, I’m tired all the time, but I don’t get grumpy and I try not to freak out. I’ll just take my time and I’ll go nap and regain my strength and then I’m back on.

PCZ: Do you think it’s a benefit that you guys are in New Zealand?

CH: Definitely, imagine if we just went to a massive studio lot everyday where there’s like fifty other programs being made and you clock in and then go home. It’s not like that. We’re our own little community. It’s like we go out into the wilderness and we’ll shoot there for five days. You get up at five, drive out in the dark into the middle of nowhere, you shoot all day, only with your own people. You don’t see anybody else, no one’s coming out to the forest. You’ll see one or two people walking their dogs and that’s it. And then you go home and kiss your family, maybe you live by yourself and you’re back in it the next day. For an actor New Zealand is such a humble place. In LA or something like that it’s all hustle and bustle. Every weekend I would have a publicist or manager going, (Californian accent)”We gotta get you to, ah, this premiere, we gotta do that.” But down there, man, it’s all about the job and on the weekend I can do whatever the hell I want and that’s usually to stay indoors and watch DVDs and play guitar. That allows you to keep focused on the job, keep focused on the work and not be swept up in the insane side of celebrity and the crap side of it really has taken away from the acting industry. It’s all, (movie studio executive accent)”Hey, you know who’s hot right now? Miley Cyrus and Zac Efron. What we should do is put them in a movie and, uh, basketball’s pretty hot right now so we’re going to make them play basketball and we did some research and, apparently, dancing movies are so popular so we’ll put a bit of dancing in there. And we’ve got Macintosh supporting us so every twenty minutes we’ve got to have an iPod or something…” Dude! What the hell are you writing? How can you try to sell this crap to people? You know what I’m trying to say?

PCZ: Definitely and it’s gives a better quality to the show that you guys shoot far away from all that. Hey, you also play guitar and write music. Is there any chance of a CD or album from you in the future?

CH: I hope so, I hope so. I’ve got a kind of little band going on at the moment. We’re just working on some music. But, yeah, I love music and I would love to share my music with people who want to listen to it. That’s what music is for, for listening. I can’t tell you how much I love music, it’s the language of the Universe, man. Let’s face it, words can get in the way. Think about the relationships you’ve had when you talk to the other person and they’ve just completely misunderstood what you’re trying to say and there is no way you can say what you really feel. But you pick up a guitar and you play a few notes and people go, “Ok, I get you, now I understand.” And you’re like, “Wait, I feel more like (guitar noises).” and they respond, “Yeah, ok I hear ya, I hear ya.” (laughs).

PCZ: Looking forward to hearing your music and the rest of season two. Craig, thank you very much for your time.

CH: Oh, thank you so much, it was a pleasure.

Fonte: Pop Culture Zoo

Craig Horner Talks Season 2 of Legend of the Seeker

2009-11-08T23:59:00.000-08:00

The Legend of the Seeker returns tomorrow for the start of a second season, so I sat down with the show’s star, Craig Horner, to talk about the great guest stars, his affinity for sword play and what’s in store for fans of this fantasy / action series.

Let’s not waste any time here, Craig. Tell us what we can look forward to in this new season.

Craig: It’s literally hell on earth because the underworld has been opened now and the Keeper, which is Satan, if you will, is sending forth his minions. One thing we gotta watch out for are these things called Banelings, which are kind of like zombies. They’re basically people who get sent to the underworld and come back serving the Keeper, but they look exactly the same so you don’t know who to trust, what to do — how do you kill something that’s already dead. For Richard’s character, he’s now been thrust into this new kind of world of leadership. You thought being the Seeker was hard enough but now he has to lead his enemies. Some of the Darkens are saying, you are our Lord Rahl, we’re going to follow you, what are you going to do? Now we’re not fighting each other, we’re fighting a bigger enemy; we’re fighting the devil.

I hear you have some great guest stars coming up this season.

Craig: Yes, Amy Teegarden from Friday Night Lights, Jolene Blalock from Star Trek. Oh, and Charisma Carpenter. I’m a massive Buffy and Angel fan so when she came on I was like, ohhh my god, I’ve now merged Buffy and my show together, this is a moment to remember. It’s great having these new flavors to spice things up.

So you a big fantasy fan before you joined the show?

Craig: Oh yeah, big time. I was that kid who everything single day was running around in the backyard pretending I was Ninja Turtle one day or Batman the next day or a Ghostbuster the next day or Kevin fromHome Alone setting traps around my house or Luke Sykwalker on a speeder bike while I was on my bicycle. My imagination was absolutely wild. I would watch these films a million times and I would just love it. It’s really kind of crazy; Richard is kind of like that character I was pretending to be all those years ago. Just when you thought you were too old to be running around with swords it comes right back at you and you get paid to do it.

IN THE MOOD

On the Season One DVD, you take us on a tour of the Legend of the Seeker sets. They’re so realistic, it must be easy to get into the mood of the piece.

Craig: Absolutely. We have a couple of massive studios. One is always a forest. You go in there and it’s literally a forest, you walk in and there’s a bit of work space but most of it is dirt and actual trees and we have to keep swapping them over every month because they die and get bugs. Then, you’re in a bar suddenly with all these extras dressed up in crazy outfits and all the crew is outside the bar and you look around and it’s actually kind of easy to imagine where we are. Then when we go outside and there are the real mountains and amazing lakes and sand dunes — we’re not shooting Jurassic Park 3 here. We can see what’s going on. We’re not talking to tennis balls all the time. Sure you gotta do it where you’ve got green screen you have to play off it, but it’s so much nicer when you’re sitting in the costume on the actual wagon that is made of real wood and brass with all the detail.

Your role is quite physically demanding. How did you take to it when you first began?

Craig: When Bridget and I got to New Zealand, we had about six weeks before we started shooting and in that time we could read the books for character research and we could also go horse riding to touch off on that and I wasn’t really good on a horse, I’d maybe been on a horse a couple of times. But these guys take it through like paint by numbers. Heels down, pull the reigns in and they’ll look at you and point out these tiny things and before you know it you’re riding a horse thanks to these amazing teachers. The sword thing, as I mentioned, I was using a plastic sword for the first, give or take, ten years of my life and that kind of helped, believe it or not. If I was to step into a battle, I’d probably lose but to be able to make it look big and epic and have a little coordination came relatively easy to me, not to mention we have amazing stunt coordinators who choreograph these wonderful fights.

TAKING LIFE AS IT COMES

What’s been the best part of working on Legend of the Seeker?

Craig: That’s a tough question. I’ve never really been asked that. There’s so many pros. The schedule is incredibly grueling and when you’re tired, you’re tired. You can be a millionaire but when you’re tired that money ain’t gonna help you, you’re tired and you feel bad. But I look around and I go, this is fantastic. These are now my new family and friends. I had to go from Australia to here and we all get along really well. It’s such fast turn around, TV, you can’t spend so much time on things, we have to be moving fast and suddenly you’re doing a big life or death scene and then a fight scene and then go ride horses. It’s incredibly full on but enjoyable.

Are you as adventurous as your character?

Craig: I have a short attention span, if I’m in one place for a long time I have to move. I think, when I’m challenged with something I’ll try and rise to it but sometimes when you’re left on your own accord you could end up staying in one spot. You don’t know what’s out there so you just start assuming there’s nothing out there. Then suddenly someone will thrust you into something and it’s like, wow, I’m so glad I came here. Gosh, I think there’s nothing at all wrong with anyone saying, you know what, these three months I’m not going to work, I’m going to do it really cheap, I’m going to travel, rock up and see what happens. If you rock up with no expectations, you just go, this is life, life is about being here. . .I can’t really ask the world to give me anything, I’m just going to go and see what it is. . maybe things can happen.

Any final words?

Craig: If you can watch Legend of the Seeker, please watch it. We’ve had a fantasy void on our television for too long and I like to think of it as the fantasy void filler. Fantasy is a word that can throw people off. You say fantasy to my mom and she’s like, ‘no, not my thing.’ You say it to other people and they’re like, ‘it’s for dweebs and geeks, I’m not into wizards and dragons and all that stuff.’ But Legend of the Seeker is basically real situations that are set in an ancient time before you had cell phones and electricity. It’s a world of steel and leather and so we don’t really make it too crazy. Magic only happens every once in awhile; it’s really about these relationships. So don’t be put off by the word fantasy, but at the same token if you do love fantasy, then come on and step inside, you’ll get your fantasy fill.

Fonte: SFUniverse

The PCZ Interview With Bridget Regan From ‘Legend Of The Seeker’

2009-11-07T22:57:00.000-08:00

The second season of Legend o the Seeker debuts in syndication the weekend of November 7th and 8th (check local listings for channel and time). In the first season finale Richard Cypher, after having traveled into the future, fulfilled his destiny and defeated the dark tyrant Darken Rahl. However, if you thought that was the end of the story, you are very wrong. The premiere holds a lot of surprise revelations as well as a new addition to our band of heroes. A couple of days before the premiere we spoke with Bridget Regan, who plays the Confessor Kahlan Amnell. Check back over the weekend for our full review of the season two premiere and also our interview with Craig Horner (Richard Cypher)! For now, enjoy Joe’s chat with the very wonderful Bridget Regan.

Bridget Regan: Hi Joe, how are you?

PCZ: I’m great, how are you?

BR: Really good, thanks.

PCZ: Thank you very much for taking the time to talk to me today.

BR: Hey, thanks for talking to me.

PCZ: First of all, congratulations on the second season.

BR: Thank you.

PCZ: You shoot in New Zealand so how early on did you guys know that the show was doing so well?

BR: It was really interesting. I had no idea how the show was being received other than talking to my mom. But she likes everything I do. (laughs) We didn’t really have any idea. I didn’t know if we were going to the second season or not, there was lot of talk that we would because the show keeps getting continually sold to other countries. So now we’re all over the world and the show actually plays in New Zealand. We definitely get more feedback now. It’s all very lovely, I love coming back home to the states and all the wonderful fan mail.

PCZ: Going back to the beginning, what did you think about the character of Kahlan when you were first approached to play her?

BR: When I first auditioned for the character they gave me a brief paragraph with a description of her and it kind of stopped me in my tracks when I read it. It was something completely different than anything I had done before. It was also something I knew that I could do. She’s strong and she’s weak, she’s masculine and feminine and she’s loyal and driven and all these things I admire and love and she has a sense of duty. She has a really soft center and I feel like she’s got quite a little girl inside of her. Often with female characters they tend to be just one thing and Kahlan is not, she is a whole can of worms.

PCZ: That’s what the show seems to excel at, all the characters are three dimensional and complex.

BR: I have to say that’s Terry Goodkind, he’s brought them to life. The story is completely straight from the book, but the characters are all him.

PCZ: How have you been with how Kahlan has progressed over the course of the first season?

BR: It’s been good for me. I think I sometimes struggle with how can she be this good all the time. She’s so good, she always makes the right decision and sometimes I worry is this human, you know? We all have flaws. But then it comes along that she does something that’s not in her character and I love it. She has kind of this pure image, especially when I’m in the white dress, it’s almost like a Mother Mary kind of look, but then she’s cold, she’s a soldier and a murderer. I love it! It’s dynamic and cool. I don’t know if I’ll ever play anyone like her again, but it’s certainly a joy to play because she really gets to let off some steam when it’s slice-n-dice with grown men every other day. (laughs)

PCZ: And it’s refreshing to see that she can be feminine and vulnerable, but when a fight starts…

BR: Yeah! I get such a great response to that. People just write me letters like, “You are so bad-ass! I love the way you kill these guys!” and it’s so cool! I certainly did not see myself using my stage combat skills everyday. I actually didn’t get very good grades in stage combat back in drama school. I always thought, “Ugh, when am I going to use these skills?” I was the one who totally had to eat my words, for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

PCZ: Along those lines, has there been anything that you were particularly apprehensive about doing on the show?

BR: Yeah, I had never really ridden a horse before and I kind of said, “Sure…I can ride a horse!” I had been on a horse before and been on horseback riding trails, but not on a horse where you’re in charge of it and you’re the one that’s calling the shots. Luckily, I had a very, very good teacher, Wayne McCormack, who has incredible horses that are trained really well and I got down there six weeks before we began shooting season one and he taught me everything I know. I had a few refreshers here and there. And I got a great new horse! He’s so gorgeous, he’s white. And me in the white dress on a white horse is just so cool. The first day I got up on it in the dress everybody just kind of stopped in their tracks and they were like, “Oh, my god!” It’s so cool. And there was talk of Bruce [Spence] riding him, but somehow I won and got Shadow, the white horse.

PCZ: Ok, so, in the second season premiere you guys get literally minutes to celebrate Darken Rahl’s defeat.

BR: I know! It’s comical, right?

PCZ: No kidding. One thing I was wondering about at the end where Kahlan decides to continue on with Richard and Zed, it seems to be because of Cara. Was Kahlan just looking for an excuse to stay with Richard?

BR: Yeah, yeah, I totally think so. (laughs) I think that the subtext in that scene is “I don’t want to leave you, I don’t want to be without you. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and not see you.” That’s the heart of the show, the romance. That’s my favorite thing about it. I mean, I love the action and I love the epic beauty of the show, like when they do those gorgeous, long panning shots of the countryside. I love that. But, the truth is, what gives me goosebumps is the romance with Richard and Kahlan. But I’m a sucker for romance!

PCZ: It’s almost forbidden romance too.

BR: Yeah, it’s totally forbidden love. It’s a story that’s been told before in Romeo and Juliet, it’s all that, but something so cool about them is that they’re partners in crime or not crime, but justice, I suppose. They work together and they manage this season via magic and other things to find ways to get closer and closer as the season has gone on. I love that they’ve found ways to let Richard and Kahlan show their love for each other.

PCZ: I think that was a pretty poignant moment when the little girl, Rachel, asks Richard and Kahlan if they’re going to get married.

BR: Oh, that little Jordana [Beatty], isn’t she great? We were so lucky to get her back. She was in an episode last season and it was so cool to have her back. Everybody just fell in love with her on the set. The editors said they had a hard time cutting away from her face because she was so beautiful. She’s this gorgeous little redhead and I just kept wanting to stroke her hair because I used to have red hair.

PCZ: And how is is this year having a new full time person joining your group?

BR: I love it, I love having Tabrett [Bethell] along. It was such a boy’s club last year and now we’ve got all this massive girl power, which is so cool. And we’ve got so many great guest stars, we’ve got Charisma Carpenter out and now we’ve got Jolene Blalock and we’ve had Amy Teegarden. Tons of Americans are flying down and coming to play with us and I think the fans will really dig it, to see people come down and don these costumes and run around with us.

PCZ: Ok, what are some things you can tell us about the rest of the season?

BR: Hmmm, well, I will tell you on my first day back to work [from this break] I’ve got a love scene, so I’ve got to prepare myself for that one. It is fun, but it’s always, I don’t know, scary. You want it to be really sexy and really good, but you don’t want to let your nerves get the best of you. I’ve got that and I’ve gotten to do a lot of different things. I just did a sword fight, which was awesome! I’ve done a lot of fighting with Tabrett where we’re teaming up and we’re working together. I’ve whacked her a few times on accident, but she’s been a good sport about it.

PCZ: In between seasons did you get a chance to work on any other projects?

BR: I did a movie called The Best and the Brightest, which is a comedy, with Neil Patrick Harris, Amy Sedaris and Christopher McDonald. I play this literally crazy out of work actress. It was really interesting the first day I was on set shooting and I almost didn’t know what to do with myself, I was so used to playing Kahlan. But it was a really great and fun experience for me. For nine months I’d been eating and sleeping Kahlan, so it was a real great escape. The movie is user funny and it should be out sometime in 2010.

PCZ: So after doing this movie was it an easy transition to get back into playing Kahlan?

BR: Yeah, in playing another part I found that it almost helped me. By playing someone else you kind of get to define Kahlan. I came back into season two going “All right, I know who this woman is, I know her inside and out. If I don’t know her now, we’ve got a problem.”

PCZ: That helps, playing someone diametrically opposed to Kahlan?

BR: As an actor I was really stoked, because I know sometimes in this genre you can get pigeonholed into doing one type of role and doing something different was really fun for me to do.

PCZ: Do you have any interest in maybe doing any writing or directing on the show?

BR: I actually started writing an episode last year and I really enjoyed it. I’ve never directed before, but I’ve just started producing and it’s been a really exciting venture for me. I’m producing a musical for a friend of mine that I met in drama school and she’s a terrific artist,Natalie Weiss. We produced it for the Fringe Festival here in New York and it was totally the hit of the Fringe and we got amazing reviews and now she’s off to make it a full length show. We’ll see where it will go from there. It’s called Camp Wanatachiand it’s really funny with really hip and cool music. It kind of takes the Broadway musical in a new direction. My love of theater and acting all stem from me being obsessed with musical theater.

PCZ: Excellent. Well, that’s all I have for you for now. Congratulations on the second season and I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the season.

BR: Awesome, thanks Joe!

Fonte: Pop Culture Zoo

Legend of the Seeker Stars Spill on the New Season's Supersexy Love Triangle

2009-11-07T22:47:00.000-08:00

Legend of the Seeker, a syndicated fantasy series you may never have heard of but that's actually pretty darn entertaining, returns this weekend for a swashbuckling second season.

We just caught up with series stars Bridget Regan and Craig Horner to learn what we can expect for Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell and Seeker of Truth Richard Cypher in the new episodes. (Psst...if you're not familiar with the show, please don't be put off by the fancy nomenclature derived from the Sword of Truth books on which the series is based. Mother Confessor just means "superhot nun with fighting skills" and a Seeker of Truth is, more or less, a noble knight in a shining armor. You've met their like before.)

So, what is to come in season two? We heard tell of leather-clad bad girls, jealous wenches and some sexy body-swapping...

Richard and Kahlan have two big problems this season: (1) They kinda opened a Hellmouth when they defeated Darken Rahl last season. Oops. (2) A Mord Sith named Cara (Tabrett Bethell) has attached herself to Richard and Kahlan's little family out of a deranged allegiance to Lord Rahl, a title that Richard inherited upon the late (evil) lord's death.

(Quick sidebar with newbies who might be asking "What's a Mord Sith?" Just imagine a coven of witches who have a rather ostentatious leather fetish, or cross Morgan la Fay from the King Arthur legends with Melinda Clarke's Lady Heather from CSI, and you'll have the general picture of who they are and where they fit into the show's mythology.)

Anyway, as everyone knows, three's a crowd, and once Cara joins up with Richard and Kahlan, the threesome quickly gets uncomfortable for the two ladies. Craig, however, says that Richard doesn't totally hate it: "He's got two beautiful chicks looking after him—he's loving it! Kahlan is his love and his best friend, and he basically has to just override her suggestions and just go, 'Look, I just trust [Cara].' How hard would that have to be for Kahlan? That's what's great about this whole series—the tough choices we have to make that we're faced with."

For her part, Bridget Regan confirms that Kahlan is fairly underwhelmed by the idea of sharing her man with a space dominatrix: "That's a whole can of worms because Cara comes in and we've both sworn to protect Richard. She's sworn to protect the Lord Rahl, and I've said, well, I'm your Confessor and I'm going to lay down my life for you if need be—that's not just because of her duty, it's also because she loves the hell out of the man. Kahlan and Cara are enemies, yet they have the same goals, so it's a bizarre relationship."

Kahlan's the nicest lady in the world, being a Confessor/nun and all, but Bridget tells us that in episode 11 Kahlan's true feelings about the Richard-Cara connection get the better of her and she gets a chance to show off her bitchy side: "The episode is called 'Torn,' and Kahlan's literally torn, there are two of her, she gets split. One part of her is this Confessor and she becomes this tyrannical leader—she doesn't have that compassion that she needs—and then the other part of her is this girl who's lovesick and jealous and crazy and just wants to be with Richard all the time."

But according to Bridget, there is some good news for Richard-Kahlan fans in this scenario: "I'm shooting a love scene on Tuesday with Craig. It's nerve-racking. I have to work on not blushing all day. The grips and lighting guys are like your brothers, and I just don't look at them in the eye all day."

And that's not the only sexytime in the works this season. Craig tells us, "There will be some body swapping going on again, maybe some possession, maybe some different sides of each character coming out that they each didn't know they had in them. Me and Bridget love any time we get to play another character. [There's one episode where] I'm this random, possessed old seeker who's out for revenge."

If those eps are anything like the body-swapping "Mirror" ep or the possession episode "Revenant" from season one, we can't wait!

Legend of the Seeker premieres this weekend in syndication. The season premiere features Buffy andAngel alum Charisma Carpenter as a twisted Mord Sith named Triana. (FYI, Craig revealed to us that he's a huge Buffy fan who totally geeked out when he meet C.C.: "I didn't let it slip when I first met her, trying to be real cool, you know, and then 10 minutes went by and I was like, by the way, 'Biggest Buffyfan ever, tell me everything.' "

Fonte: Watch with Kristin

Detonando a Times Square

2009-11-05T19:14:00.000-08:00

Ontem de manhã ocorreu em plena Times Square um evento para a divulgação da nova temporada de Legend oh the Seeker com direito até a Mord'Siths e, pra variar, Craig e Bridget lindos e uma fofura só.

Mais fotos no Legend of the Seeker.org

Mais Craig e Bridget

2009-11-05T09:35:00.000-08:00

Craig e Bridget deram uma entrevista ontem pro site 33 CW falando da 2ª temporada.

DALLAS - Legend of the Seeker is back for another season. I spoke with the main characters, Craig Horner who plays Richard Cypher, and Bridget Regan, who plays Kahlan Amnell. Here's what we talked about in our interview:

Roni: "First of all, tell us from last season until now what's happened, catch us up!"

Bridget: " Season 2 picks up right where we left off and the crazy thing is when we finished season 1, we felt like it was over we felt like we had won because there was a prophecy that Richard, the part that Craig plays, was going to kill this evil guy Darken Rahl, who's been ruling the midlands, this world we live in as a crazy leader. And we defeated him, we killed him, well he killed him, I just kind of helped. He combined all these forms of magic and when he did that this kind of explosion happened and when he did that we learned that there was this tear that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead. So now there's these creatures that we've never seen and people that we've killed that are coming back to get us and it's a bit of chaos. So now we're out to defeat the Keeper, who is Mr. Baddy number one and we have some help Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, and Cara the Mord-sith that was in the season finale of season 1, which will be airing in the 2 hour event, and we're back to right some wrong."

Roni: "Tell us what we'll see during the season premiere, and all of the different characters we're going to meet, and the people that are returning from season 1."

Craig: "We saw Cara for the first time in the finale of season 1 and she is back in season 2. She proves to be a valuable asset to me, so I can use her in certain ways."

Bridget: "And I'm not convinced, I think she's trouble, but we also has a wonderful actress Charisma Carpenter who plays a high ranking Mord-sith in the first episode of season 2 as well. You might know her from Buffy. We have some really great guests this year, we have Jolene Blalock coming up, she was in Star Trek, and a lot of great actors. Amy T Garden from Friday Night Lights, Gabriel Men from Mad Men, and just a lot. They've really stepped up their game, we've had some really great guests to come out and play with us, and of course a lot of local talent from New Zealand and Australia."

Roni: "Besides the fantasy, what are the story lines we're going to see on a personal level?"

Craig: "Richard kind of gets separated from Zen and Kahlan for quite a while. It's good, distance makes the heart grow fonder and he realizes what he's fighting for really. Do you agree?"

Bridget: "I would, we find that Richard has more powers than he knew he had, which is a big one. And Kahlan is pushed to trust Richard in a way that she's never done before because she really doesn't trust this Cara, because she's a Mord-sith and they're bad, bad girls. And the last time she found her man all bruised and beaten and she doesn't want that to happen again. It's a great season, so far so good, we just finished episode 10 and I can't believe how much stuff has happened already, it's exhausting to think about it, it's always life and death on our show, it's like it's the end of the world, and there's such high stakes and such high drama, it's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure."

Roni: "When we spoke last time, it was just as you were getting to know these characters, now that you're here in season 2, do you feel like you're hitting your stride?

Craig: "Oh ya, and even the writers are starting to write for us they're really watching our personalities come through on screen and they're doing that. Our characters are growing a lot, the more that we have to lead and encounter all these problems we just keep growing and moving forward."

Bridget: 'It's one of the joys of playing a character. I've never played a character this long and I went and I did another part in between these seasons and it was like totally jarring because I've been playing Kahlan for 9 months and playing something else is like turning rusty wheels that haven't been turned. I adore playing Kahlan she's one of the coolest, most unique characters I've ever come across but it's a joy of play someone that you feel like you know so well, it's like second skin."

Roni: "We are so looking forward to Season 2 and the season premiere which is this Saturday night. We'll tune in and can't wait to see the many more episodes to come!"

Fonte: 33 CW

Craig e Bridget na FOX40

2009-11-04T12:57:00.001-08:00

Entrevista feita hoje, 4/11, com a Bridget Regan e o Craig Horner no canal FOX40.

Finalmente eles estão começando a promover a 2ª temporada juntos, é impossivel não se divertir vendo Craig e Bridget =)

Bridget Regan - KTLA Morning News

2009-11-03T22:01:00.001-08:00

Entrevista da Bridget pro KTLA Morning News no dia 3 de Novembro.
Detalhe pro Craig falando dela, a coisa mais fofa ^_^

P.S.: como essa mulher ficou linda de magenta!!!

Season 2 Premiere Clip - Richard and Kahlan find Cara

2009-11-02T05:49:00.001-08:00

Outro neak peek do primeiro episódio da 2ª temporada, Marked, que começa no próximo Sabado, 07/11.

Richard e Kahlan

2009-10-30T00:20:00.000-07:00

Biografias "roubadas" e traduzidas do site Love Across Time

Season 2 Premiere Clip - Veil Rift

2009-10-29T10:01:00.001-07:00

Sneak peek do primeiro episódio da 2ª temporada, Marked, que começa na próxima semana, 07/11.

Legend of the Seeker - Season 2 Secrets

2009-10-28T17:11:00.001-07:00

Preview com comentarios do cast sobre a 2ª temporada que começa na próxima semana, 07/11.

Armageddon Expo 2009

2009-10-26T22:59:00.000-07:00

Aconteceu ontem, 26 de Outubro, a Armageddon Expo em Auckland, Nova Zelândia e algumas fotos da turma de LotS foram divulgadas no site do ator e diretor Michael Hurst e da atriz Bridget Regan. Estavam presentes no evento os atores Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Craig Parker, Tabrett Bethell e o produtor Mark Beesley.

Fotos:

Michael Hurst Now

Her Blue Eyes

Resumo dos primeiros episodios da 2ª temporada

2009-10-25T18:09:00.000-07:00

2x01 Marked
07/11/2009
Richard, Kahlan e Zedd descobrem que libertaram no mundo um mal ainda maior do que Darken Rahl.

2x02 Baneling
14/11/2009
A jornada até a Stone of Tears leva Richard, Kahlan, Zedd e Cara a uma prisão D'Haran onde os mortos retornaram do underworld para atacar os vivos.

2x03 Broken
21/11/2009
O destino de Cara está nas mãos de Kahlan quando a Mord'Sith é posta a prova pelos crimes que cometeu no passado.

Fonte: Sword-of-Truth

Legend of the Seeker

2009-10-24T00:35:00.000-07:00

Há um mês atras conheci a série Legend of the Seeker mas acabei adiando esse post pois não queria soar repetitiva em relação as ótimas criticas que a série vem recebendo tanto de profissionais como de telespectadores.

Baseada na série de livros Sword of Truth de Terry Goodkind, best sellers lá nos EUA e praticamente desconhecidos aqui no Brasil, produzida por Sam Raimi e Rob Tapert (criadores de Hercules e Xena) em parceria com a Disney/ABC e filmada na bela Nova Zelandia, LotS foi recebida a principio como uma sucessora das séries de aventura e fantasia que eram moda na decada de 90 como as já citadas Hercules e Xena, O Mundo Perdido, Simbad e etc, porém acabou se mostrando mais que isso.

Além dos efeitos modernos e da produção mais elaborada, ao contrario das séries citadas acima que tinham um tom maior de comédia, LotS segue o estilo Alta Fantasia, popularizado nos ultimos anos pela trilogia Senhor dos Anéis. É claro que existem piadas e episodios comicos, como o ótimo Mirror, mas a série se concentra mesmo é na eterna batalha entre bem e mal.

Como toda boa e classica Alta Fantasia, LotS conta com heróis orfãos, magos, um exercito a serviço do vilão megalomaniaco (com o bonus da elite de domiatrixes Mord'Sith) e um romance aparentemente impossivel.

Richard Cypher é o jovem guia florestal transparente e honesto que vivia com o pai adotivo e o irmão em Hartland, uma cidade onde a magia não existe, e descobre de forma tragica ser o ultimo Seeker a surgir em 1.000 anos e a pessoa profetizada a destruir o reinado do tirano Darken Rahl com a ajuda de Kahlan Amnell, uma Confessora designada a defende-lo com a própria vida se preciso e o Mago Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander que passou os ultimos 23 anos o protegendo a distancia.

Seeker? Confessora? Seeker é "um herói que emerge em tempos de dificuldade e sofrimento para caçar o mal" sempre auxiliado por um mago como mentor e uma Confessora que age como uma especie de guarda costas. Confessora é uma mulher com o dom de hipnotizar e escravisar alguem com apenas um toque, o que acaba tornando essas mulheres temidas e respeitadas nas terras magicas de Midlands.

E então chegamos na parte que sempre me empolga: o romance.

O herói se apaixonar pela mocinha que o acompanha durante sua jornada não é nenhuma novidade, mas o que faz a diferença em LotS é que as coisas não são tão simples assim.

Claro que o fato de Kahlan ser uma Confessora é o maior impecilho já que se ela relacionar-se intimamente com alguem perderá o controle de seus poderes e confessará a pessoa, porém isso não foi problema para Kieran e Vivian, os ultimos Seeker e Confessora antes de Richard e Kahlan que tiveram um final trágico por se entregarem a paixão. E aqui entra a grande diferença e qualidade de Richard e Kahlan: suas personalidades.

Ambos sabem quão importante é a missão que tem pela frente e são totalmente comprometidos com essa missão, dispostos a sacrificar o que for preciso pelo bem maior que é livrar o povo de Midland dos desmandos de Darken Rahl. Ambos são autruistas, mais de uma vez tiveram a chance de utilizar alguma forma de magia para livrar-se do impecilho dos poderes de Kahlan e desistiram da idéia para ajudar um amigo ou resistiram a tentação em nome de um bem maior.

E como se isso já não fosse o bastante pra fazer qualquer um simpatizar com o romance impossivel entre o Seeker e a Confessora, os sentimentos de um pelo outro são tão genuinos que Kahlan não consegue sequer cogitar a idéia de Richard perder a sua 'alma' por causa dela e Richard não aceita que Kahlan se desfaça dos seus poderes, de parte dela, para que possam ficar juntos.

O resultado são grande respeito e admiração mutuos que tornam ainda mais bela a história de Richard e Kahlan.

QUOTES:

"Confess me (...) I rather be your slave than hers" - Richard

"I can't think of any worse betrail than leaving you." - Kahlan

"Love isn't something to fear, Kahlan."

"For me it is."

"Rahl was wrong when he said our fate was unimaginable. The only unimaginable fate is one without you." - Richard

"Tell him that his own Confessor never stopped loved him. And that if he can't undo the magic, if he can't return to her then, she'll be waiting for him, in the Underworld. Forever." - Kahlan

"When we first met, you told me you'd give your life for the Seeker. And that's what you did. Even when it looked like you had no hope, you loved me across time." - Richard

Richard/Kahlan - Gravity Of Love

2009-10-23T01:06:00.001-07:00

"O Fortuna velut Luna" ["O Fortune like the Moon"]

Turn around and smell what you don't see
Close your eyes ... it is so clear
Here's the mirror, behind there is a screen
On both ways you can get in.
Don't think twice before you listen to your heart,
Follow the trace for a new start.
What you need and everything you'll feel
Is just a question of the deal.
In the eye of storm you'll see a lonely dove
The experience of survival is the key
To the gravity of love.

"O Fortuna velut Luna"

[Whispers:]
[Woman :]
The path of excess leads to the tower of Wisdom
[Man :]
The path of excess leads to the tower of Wisdom

Try to think about it...
That's the chance to live your life and discover
What it is, what's the gravity of love

"O Fortuna velut Luna"

Look around just people, can you hear their voice
Find the one who'll guide you to the limits of your choice.
But if you're in the eye of storm
Just think of the lonely dove
The experience of survival is the key
To the gravity of love.

"O Fortuna velut Luna"
"O Fortuna velut Luna"

Novo poster da 2ª temporada

2009-10-22T20:57:00.000-07:00

Foi divulgado hoje o mais novo (e mais shipper) poster de LotS até o momento.

versão maior

Fanfics

2009-10-22T20:49:00.001-07:00

+ The Seeker & The Confessor Fanfictions +

+ Legend of the Seeker Fanfiction +

+ LotS no FanFiction.net +

+ SeekerFic +

DVD Clip: Characters

2009-10-22T00:54:00.001-07:00

Quotes

2009-10-22T00:13:00.000-07:00

"Confess me (...) I rather be your slave than hers" - Richard

"I can't think of any worse betrail than leaving you." - Kahlan

"Love isn't something to fear, Kahlan."

"For me it is."

"Rahl was wrong when he said our fate was unimaginable. The only unimaginable fate is one without you." - Richard

"Tell him that his own Confessor never stopped loved him. And that if he can't undo the magic, if he can't return to her then, she'll be waiting for him, in the Underworld. Forever." - Kahlan

"When we first met, you told me you'd give your life for the Seeker. And that's what you did. Even when it looked like you had no hope, you loved me across time." - Richard

Combos e Icons

2009-10-21T23:58:00.000-07:00

Icons e banners para foruns, blogs e afins

depois da fronteira

Fotos Promos do primeiro episódio da 2ª Temporada

2009-10-21T23:52:00.000-07:00

Noticias da 2ª Temporada

2009-10-21T19:28:00.000-07:00

Títulos e datas dos primeiros episódios da 2ª Tempora:

2x01 Marked - 07/11/09
2x02 Baneling - 14/11/09
2x03 Broken - 21/11/09
2x04 Touched - 28/11/09
2x05 Wizard - 05/12/09
2x06 Fury - 12/12/09

Charisma Carpenter em Legend of the Seeker
A Jen do Watch with Kristen contou que Charisma Carpenter, a eterna Cordelia de Buffy e Angel vai participar do primeiro episódio da 2ª Temporada de LotS como uma Mord'Sith chamada Triana.

"Teasers" da Bridget
A Bridget Regan tá sempre soltando uma coisinha ou outra no seu Twitter:

* One of my favorite guests from last season is back to play!
Um dos meus atores convidados favoritos da temporada passada vai voltar!

* Okay I can't hold it in any longer... it's Jesse!
Ok. Eu não consigo me segurar... é a Jesse! (Jessica Marais = Denna)

* Oooh Ken Biller (ex producer and show runner) came down to NZ and told me about episode 11 of Season 2. Let me just say, wow. Wow. Wow.
Oooh Ken Biller (produtor executivo e roteirista da série) veio para NZ e me falou sobre o episódio 11 da 2ª temporada. Só posso dizer, wow. Wow. Wow.

* We're in the midst of episode 210, "Perdition." Today we were at Bethells Beach on the black sand dunes. So amazing. Looks like the moon.
"Estamos na metade do episódio 210, "Perdition". Hoje estávamos na Praia Bethells, nas dunas de areia negra. Tão incrível. Parece a lua."

A Sorta Fairytale [Richard/Kahlan] - Legend of the Seeker - Pitch

2009-10-21T17:48:00.001-07:00

on my way up north
up on the ventura
i pulled back the hood
and i was talking to you
and i knew then it would be
a life long thing
but i didn't know that we
we could break a silver lining

and i'm so sad
like a good book
i can't put this day back
a sorta fairytale
with you
a sorta fairytale
with you

things you said that day
up on the 101
the girl had come undone
i tried to downplay it
with a bet about us
you said that-
you'd take it
as long as i could
i could not erase it

and i'm so sad
like a good book
i can't put this day back
a sorta fairytale
with you
a sorta fairytale
with you

and i ride along side
and i rode along side
you then
and i rode along side
till you lost me there
in the open road
and i rode along side
till the honey spread
itself so thin
for me to break your bread
for me to take your word
i had to steal it

way up north i took my day
all in all was a pretty nice
day and i put the hood
right back where
you could taste heaven
perfectly
feel out the summer breeze
didn't know when we'd be back
and i, i don't
didn't think
we'd end up like
like this

and i'm so sad
like a good book
i can't put this
day back
a sorta fairytale
with you
a sorta fairytale
with you