Craig Horner interview at Newsarama
Australian Actor Seeks to Create American TV ‘Legend’
The series has got that ancient Earth kind of feel,” explains Horner. “There are no guns but just blades, steel, and brawn. My character, Richard, is a simple woods guide who lives in Westland, a land of no magic. What you see there is what you get. It’s a simple life style. There’s a magical boundary that separates Westland from the Midlands. In the Midlands, it’s all magic but the two worlds don’t really know too much about each other. One day, a woman named Kahlan, who looks something like a princess, is running and on some kind of mission. They stumble upon each other and she says to Richard ‘You have a bigger destiny than what you think. You are a Seeker. There is a prophecy that you will defeat the evil taking over our country. This man, Darken Rahl, is the one you will kill with the Sword of Truth.’ Then we go on this journey to find this man.”
As expected, Richard isn’t prepared to fully embrace any crazy prophecy.
“You see a wizard with a crazy looking woman in a white dress and they are telling you that you have to kill people with a sword and Richard’s like ‘I’m not going to do this!’” says Horner. “He fights it for a while but he starts seeing things that change his mind. Things are breaking through this boundary. Richard sees a horrible creature as well as a man who represents the Dharan army and is after him for some reason. And something big happens in the pilot that is really a turn around for Richard which is he loses someone quite special to him. That’s it. When someone is after you and they are taking your loved ones, you start to believe.”
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