Merlin - SciFi and TV Talk: Knights of the Round Table Q & A

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SCIFI AND TV TALK: Tom Hopper, Rupert Young, Eoin Macken & Adetomiwa Edun - Q & A with Merlin's Knights of the Round Table

01/31/2012
by Steven Eramo


In Arthurian legend, the Knights of the Round Table were among King Arthur’s most trusted and noblest of soldiers. Courageous, loyal and of good humor, they fought beside their king whenever duty called and did not hesitate to undertake the most dangerous of missions with him in the name of Camelot.

The same is true in the BBC’s hit fantasy series Merlin. At the end of the show’s third season, the-then Prince Arthur had not only his personal servant – and unbeknownst to him, sorcerer – Merlin fighting by his side against the dark forces controlled by Morgana, but also the newly formed Knights of the Round Table...

... Last week, after finishing a London TV interview and before leaving for an awards ceremony, actors Rupert Young (Sir Leon), Tom Hopper (Sir Percival), Eoin Macken (Sir Gwaine) and Adetomiwa Edun (Sir Elyan) spoke on the phone with me as well as other journalists about working on Merlin. The following is an edited version of our Q & A...



Rupert Young, Eoin Macken, Santiago Cabrera, Bradley James, Adetomiwa Edun and Tom Hopper from Merlin


... Q: And for each of you, what was your favorite scene to do?

Eoin Macken: "My favorite scene personally is one between me and Rupert. We have a really great scene coming up in, I think, episode seven or eight. It’s an episode that mainly focuses on the knights, so I'm sure the fans will look out for that one because we're pretty brilliant in it. The scene was quite interesting because there’s a lot more conflict among the knights in terms of creating a different dynamic to our relationship. So I enjoyed that scene with Rupert in the forest which got quite heated."

Adetomiwa Edun: "Tom and I did a little bit in the season opener where we’re rescuing the children from the Dorocha, which was quite fun. And then following on from what Eoin said, I think that, if I may call it the knights' episode, has some really nice interplay between us all four of us, which was a lot of fun to do."

Tom Hopper: "Certainly my favorite has to be saving the kids with Adetomiwa in this season’s opener. That was a lot of fun. And saying again, I think the knights' episode, which is, I believe, episode eight, was a lot of fun for the four of us to do, and we also got a peek at or hint of something to come."

Rupert Young: "Mine is the same as everyone else’s, the knights’ episode. I think our characters developed a bit more in that one with the conflicts, as Eoin, said, and it was the most fun to shoot..."


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