Merlin - New York Post: Colin Morgan Interview

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NEW YORK POST: Interview: 'Merlin' star Colin Morgan, Arthurian legend nerd


January 17, 2012
by Maxine Shen


The Season 3 DVD of “Merlin” is in stores today. To celebrate, we broke out the good mead and our fanciest velvet doublet... just kidding. We actually had a chitchat with the BBC/Syfy fantasy series’ extremely well-read star, Colin Morgan (the titular Merlin). He put his vacation on pause to talk Arthurian legend, "Merlin" fans and the two shirts that make up the wizard’s daily wardrobe...



... The Post: Any favorite legend moments that you’ve gotten to film?

Colin Morgan: "I read “The Crystal Cave” book by Mary Stewart and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself. We did explore the Crystal Cave in a past episode, where Merlin tried to change the future and, of course, as everyone knows, if you try to change the future, you’re going to mess everything up, for anyone who’s seen “Back To the Future.” It’s a legend that I’d like to see them revisit, [when] Merlin actually learns how to use [the crystals] because I think he’s matured now since we last did that episode. That’s been my favorite from what I’d read.

Also, I really enjoyed another legend of two dragons underneath a castle: The castle wouldn’t stand because of the [unstable] foundations and they needed the blood of a boy who didn’t have a father to make the castle stand, which I thought was quite dark. So, they came across Merlin, who had no father, but he managed to convince them to dig under the [castle's] foundation. Under the foundation, they found two eggs - they hatched and one was a red dragon and one was a white dragon and they fought. It was a symbol of the Welsh fighting the English, so it was like a premonition type thing. There’s a lot of stuff like that that they could explore..."

Merlin season four airs on Syfy on Friday at 10/9C.