SFX Interview With Julian Murphy
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I'd like to draw attention to these parts though:
One of the biggest revelations of the series was how great an actress Angel Coulby is as Gwen. You suddenly realised how underused she’s been before now.
“I think she has done fantastic stuff. It’s always difficult with those kind of characters. In the first two series with Gwen and Morgana it was hard to give them big and meaty roles. Now Morgana is evil it’s much easier to give her proactive, proper stories. And in Gwen’s case, now that she has a real status of being Arthur’s future queen - well, potentially - and her role a growing and increasingly important one, I think you can see what Angel really can do as an actress.”
Finally - you’ve told us before that you’re not actively baiting slash fiction writers, but these last two episodes - “The Coming Of Arthur” - that‘s got to have been done with a little smirk, surely?
“No not at all. That’s lifted directly from La Morte D’Arthur. No, I’m not going to pander to any of that lot. They find innuendo in anything, and everywhere. We sit there at screenings sometimes and people are laughing at innuendo, and we’re going, ‘We never saw that!*'"
*Yeah right...
Also; I like that Murphy doesn't want to pander to the Slashers. Thank you for saying JM! I love you lots.
And this bit because, you know, we all love a bit of Gwaine...
Another great character this series was Gwaine. He was a lot more roguish than the other knights.
“There are traditions of the Gwaine story that say he was a bit of a drunken bad boy. And we just seized on that and followed it, brutally. Characters like Galahad are seen as supremely virtuous, but because in some stories Gwaine was the total opposite that seemed like the more interesting way to go..”
Then then describe him as Han Solo XD
I'd like to draw attention to these parts though:
One of the biggest revelations of the series was how great an actress Angel Coulby is as Gwen. You suddenly realised how underused she’s been before now.
“I think she has done fantastic stuff. It’s always difficult with those kind of characters. In the first two series with Gwen and Morgana it was hard to give them big and meaty roles. Now Morgana is evil it’s much easier to give her proactive, proper stories. And in Gwen’s case, now that she has a real status of being Arthur’s future queen - well, potentially - and her role a growing and increasingly important one, I think you can see what Angel really can do as an actress.”
Finally - you’ve told us before that you’re not actively baiting slash fiction writers, but these last two episodes - “The Coming Of Arthur” - that‘s got to have been done with a little smirk, surely?
“No not at all. That’s lifted directly from La Morte D’Arthur. No, I’m not going to pander to any of that lot. They find innuendo in anything, and everywhere. We sit there at screenings sometimes and people are laughing at innuendo, and we’re going, ‘We never saw that!*'"
*Yeah right...
Also; I like that Murphy doesn't want to pander to the Slashers. Thank you for saying JM! I love you lots.
And this bit because, you know, we all love a bit of Gwaine...
Another great character this series was Gwaine. He was a lot more roguish than the other knights.
“There are traditions of the Gwaine story that say he was a bit of a drunken bad boy. And we just seized on that and followed it, brutally. Characters like Galahad are seen as supremely virtuous, but because in some stories Gwaine was the total opposite that seemed like the more interesting way to go..”
Then then describe him as Han Solo XD