Katie McGrath Talks About Morgana's Evil Side on 'Merlin'
Friday, 07 January 2011
By Kenn Gold
In an exclusive interview, Katie McGrath recently spoke to MediaBlvd about the changes in store for Morgana, as the character begins to assume her classic role of villainess. Season 3 of the BBC hit Merlin premieres [January 7] on SyFy.
... MediaBlvd> Can you talk just briefly about some of the guest stars that you have on Season 3? It seems like a pretty amazing group of people coming in.
Katie> What I think is really interesting this year is that because the show is more established, we have a lot more sort of younger, unknown sort of guest characters coming in, who I just know are going to be the next big thing. Merlin is that type of show where you have amazing actors that come in and you get young up-and-comers who are going to go on to do amazing things. For example, Asa Butterfield who plays Mordred who is just doing marvelous things with the role. So this year we’ve had a lot of younger guest stars come in finishing up the knights of the round table. But at the same time we have some pretty amazing guest cast. You’ve got Miriam Margolyes who I think is just absolutely on e of the funniest women I’ve ever met. And we’ve got Emilia Fox, who is one of my absolute favorites to work with. She plays Morgause, and is in quite a few episodes. We’ve got Tom Ellis this year. My experience with the guest stars is sort of different than everybody else because my story line is slightly sort of skewed. So I get slightly different guest stars than Colin and the others. But they are very clever with what they are doing, and I think this year is more about establishing the younger characters who are going to go on with the series, and more repeat characters.
