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Youth Is A Predominant Factor. We Are Seeing A Young King Arthur, And Thereby A Young-ish - As I'm Into My 40s - Merlin. It Was About How To Tackle It, From That Point View.

He Challenge Is Finding The Modern Conduit For The Audience, Having Fun And Really Looking At The Duality Of This Particular Character, That Is Both Devil And Angel, And On The Cusp Of Losing Control Of The Pagan Background, To This Newfangled Religion Called Christianity. There's A Great Backdrop There, And Just A Whole Dark Side With The Magic.

I Like The Fact That We're Stripping The Icons Away. They're The Wikileaks For The Age That We're Revealing, With The Transparency Of The Characters. We're Unearthing The Truth Beyond Or Underneath The Myth. I Love That Aspect.

I Fall In Love With Contradictions Without Understanding. I Can't Really Portray Them Unless I Do. So In A Roundabout Way I Have To Fall In Love, It's My Duty. If Love Is About Understanding And Understanding Is Compassion And Compassion Is Love, I Have To Have Compassion Towards The World.

There Are A Couple Of Films That I've Done, Where I've Had To Get On A Horse And Wear A Pair Of Tights, So That Helped. But, Nothing Could Have Prepared Me For The Fun Of Wielding Magic Like Merlin Does, Especially In The Perverted Mind Of Chris Chibnall.