I would do anything for fandom, but I won't do that.

Nov 14, 2010 14:38

I'm not sure what the "that" is, but I just felt like quoting Meatloaf because, really, is there a bad time to quote Meatloaf?

Anyway, I was bored this morning and I'm still super cranky over the lack of quest (WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK, BEEB), so I decided that instead of cleaning my room, I was going to transcribe the best bits of just uploaded commentaries. And by commentaries, I just mean the Bradley and Katie one, because the Richard and Angel one was boring as all hell. Honestly, I feel like they got the short end of the stick. Really? THAT episode? The only way that anyone could have anything to say about that episode is if one of them went "and this is the scene where I found Bradley and Colin making out behind the set..." or something. I make no claims to the absolute word-for-word accuracy of these quotes, since Katie and Bradley both talk over each other and I didn't write in every time they interrupted the other just to go "yeah" or something, but I kept it as close as possible. Why? BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, THAT'S WHY.

Bradley: And this is the Bretton Beacons, and the coldest I've ever been in my entire life.
Katie: I heard about this. And those poor extras, weren't they lying there all day in March, in Wales?
Bradley: Yeah, it was early March, it's throwing down, Colin can't use his mouth properly...
Katie: (Bursts out laughing)
Bradley: ...we had to do a load of takes because no one could understand what Colin was saying, and all those poor extras were drenched and lying on the ground.
Katie: And told to stop complaining and shut up and do their job! It's horrible.

Bradley: There you are!
Katie: I know, I look a bit rough.
Bradley: I prefer you like that, actually.
Katie: Do you know how many people said that!?
Bradley: I do! I...
Katie: Distressingly so! Everyone came up to me like, "God, Katie, God you look great like that," and I'm like, you're all freaks!
Bradley: Well, you just look more natural.
Katie: (scoffs) Natural. Girls naturally look like they've been dragged through a bush backwards.
Bradley: What? It's hot. (Katie cracks up.) On some girls!
Katie: Well apparently everyone in Merlin thinks so!
Bradley: Well you pull it off. Not everyone can pull it off.
Katie: You are a charming, charming, charming man.

Bradley: I apologize now for everyone listening to this. Katie and I have been dragged out of bed at a ridiculous time of morning to do this.
Katie: So we're not as perky as we probably could be.
Bradley: Not as perky as we probably could be.
Katie: Because it's our last week of filming after, like, eight months.
Bradley: It is.
Katie: And it's early.
Bradley: We're soldiering on, though.
Katie: Because we love you, it's true. And I just want to spend the time with Bradley, just the two of us. It happens so rarely.

Bradley: We're now looking at Merlin... I was going to say Mordlen...
Katie: (laughs) Mordlen.
Bradley: Merlin walking into the room.
Katie: We did a lot of close-ups of me and you on this, and we didn't use them, did we?
Bradley: We didn't use them. We didn't use a lot of shots that we do on Merlin. If we only did the shots we use it would take us half the time to film. But I quite like it like this, I think it's got a sort of voyeur kind of point of view of Merlin. He's always...
Katie: Lurking.
Bradley: Lurking, creeping into rooms.
Katie: Watching.
Bradley: And he's found himself in so many scenes now, where he'll look at the day and just won't be saying anything, and come around going, "I've got a great day today, I haven't got any lines whatsoever".
Katie: Or serving us at dinner, that's another great one.
Bradley: Serving us at dinner! He is doing that.
Katie: He did that last week. His jug pouring water all over you.
Bradley: Yeah.
Katie: By accident.

Katie: Why are you so mean to Merlin?
Bradley: Um, I think it's just one of those things where it worked early on, and they stuck with it. But if you notice, I'm less and less mean.
Katie: This is pretty mean, what you do here, though.
Bradley: True.
Katie: (sing-songs) Topless!
Bradley: But how much do I... have you seen ep, uh...
Katie: Four?
Bradley: Yeah, ep four.
Katie: With Gwaine?
Bradley: Yeah, how much do I look, like, shamed by Gwaine's... (drowned out by Katie's laughter)
Katie: Listen, it's courses for courses. Seriously. It's all a matter of taste, Bradley.
Bradley: Yeah, well.
Katie: He does have floatier hair. I'm gonna say that.
Bradley: He's, he's got intimidate pecs.
Katie: My god, it's like a Pantene ad. Just... swooshing.
Bradley: Yeah, he's got the best hair in Camelot. All the women...
Katie: Oi, oi, oi, I've got pretty good hair, don't take it away from me.
Bradley: But Gwaine has got... come on, you're probably a bit jealous.
Katie: Yeah. He's also got better pecs than me. It's true.
Bradley: There you go. (pause) And then when he leans out the window, did you see that scene?
Katie: (laughing) That gratuitous shot where he's just leaning with the hair glistening.
Bradley: Where me and every other guy are going "God, I hate that guy" and every girl is going "Oh my god!"

Katie: (after Morgana walks away from Uther, smirking) D'you think I might be evil?
Bradley: You have got a few of those looks.
Katie: Oh, don't even get me started.

Bradley: (on Emilia) Um, so you guys are sisters.
Katie: Yes we are.
Bradley: You've got different colored eyes and different colored hair.
Katie: And you couldn't find two people who look more dissimilar.
Bradley: Well, Angel looks a bit different than her.
Katie: Okay, yeah, but I mean, cast as sisters.
Bradley: Yeah, right.
Katie: I mean...
Bradley: Richard looks a bit different too.
Katie: (laughing) We could list a lot of people who look different to Millie, but only I'm playing her sister. She looks like you, though, I always thought.
Bradley: Yeah.
Katie: Especially when she came in to play in the first episode, I was like, they've got this the wrong way, she should be, she should be Arthur's sister.
Bradley: Are you saying that only because she's blond?
Katie: No, no! Blond and pretty and, you know, big eyes. Like you!

Katie: (on the prop mandrake root) We named this guy Manny.
Bradley: You named... a rubber..
Katie: He looks like a parsnip. Yeah, mandrake root. Manny.
Bradley: Fans, are going to latch on that, and they're going to be at a Q&A... (puts on nasal voice) "Oh, oh, how's Manny? How's Hugo?" (back to normal voice) My god...
Katie: I love him. He's great. I probably shouldn't give away these type of secrets, though, should I?
Bradley: Well, the questions do get a bit old a bit quick.
Katie: No! I think they're brilliant!
Bradley: Well of course you are, you... you...
Katie: Because they're asking me, yeah! You're just jealous. You're just jealous you're not competing.
Bradley: That's probably it.

Arthur: I'm not going to use the blindfold, I'm just going to fight like Merlin, here.
Katie: That's just cruel, Bradley!
Bradley: That was fun!
Katie: You just enjoyed doing that to Colin, didn't you?
Bradley: (uncontrollably high-pitched giggles) I didn't realize even you guys were filming.

(After Bradley explains his philosophical reasoning for why Ygraine appears in the well)
Katie: You know, I don't think they ever thought about it that way.
Bradley: I've got it all stored inside me.
Katie: It's deep Bradley, deep.
Bradley: Like the well!
Katie: We didn't know you were that sensitive.
Bradley: Sensitive... I'm all sorts of things. I'm all sorts.
Katie: Sensitive, blond.
Bradley: Sensitive, caring...
Katie: Blond.
Bradley: Blond. Although, we knew that.

Katie: This is a new set. We built corridors in Wales so we don't have to spend so much time in France. Which kind of sucks.
Bradley: The bonus to that is that I got to get back and watch more of the World Cup.
Katie: (innocently) Was the World Cup this year?
Bradley: (laughs) The World Cup was this year. Although, saying that, I'm not sure if that was a bonus because we were so bad. But, um, by we, I mean England.
Katie: It's alright, I got what you meant.
Bradley: But um, we were able to get back from France in time to watch a lot more of it, so it...
Katie: But was that quite a lot of it? Because I remember being in France and, you know, we kind of sort of came together and it was nice. We were all with the crew, sitting in the bar and watching. It was fun! And you getting more and more angry, because everybody kept talking. You were like "I'm trying... to watch... the football..."
Bradley: No, no, see, I, I just sit in silence and watch. I'm quite focused on my, uh, on an, um, England match.
Katie: And quietly fuming because everybody's talking and having a good time.
Bradley: Well it was more the fact that, like, the guy that had the best seat in that bar...
Katie: (laughing) I can't believe yous still remember this, okay?
Bradley: No, right, the guy, who had the best seat in that bar, who sat at the front, at the est seat in the house, he was asleep.
Katie: (cackles)
Bradley: I think he was a (spark? I can't understand what he says, but it's at 22:10) or something, he'd had half a pint of beer and fell asleep.
Katie: Just didn't understand the importance of his...
Bradley: No, it was to me, like, have a seat in the back!

Katie: Ah, Rupert! It's Sir Leon!
Bradley: The biggest cheer at the screening -
Katie: - was not for us -
Bradley: - Not for anything any of us did, it was an out-of-focus shot of Rupert Young delivering a message to Uther Pendragon. That was the biggest cheer -
Katie: - and quite rightly -
Bradley: Because people were just so relieved he hadn't been burned to a crisp.
Katie: Quite rightly.

Bradley: ...Gwaine, you meet him in this series, and he comes back...
Katie: With even better hair.
Bradley: Yeah, with even more.
Katie: More hair and torso bearing.
Bradley: Because he is worth it, right.
Katie: (cracks up)

Katie: See, I feel kind of like I have robbed Colin's sneaking through corridors...
Bradley: Mm, yes, that is Colin's thing.
Katie: ...emerging from the shadows, watching from the corner.
Bradley: Hopefully we'll have Topps and one of the, like, things, will be like, "magic powers, strength, fighting dirty, sneaking ability".
Katie: Mhm. Hooded ability. Cloaked or hooded. Moving in slow-mo. Walking in slow-mo.
Bradley: Slow motion ability...
Katie: Also good.
Bradley: Morgause is winning that one.
Katie: Yeah, totally. Evil stare? I'm totally going to top you all out. Evil smile?
Bradley: Evil smile, evil stare...
Katie: All of those. There should be a wig ability.
Bradley: A wig ability. (Gaius comes on screen) Winner!

Katie: The music in this is brilliant.
Bradley: Colin kept nudging me the entire screening going "Oh, the music's great, isn't it? Oh, the music's great, isn't it!"
Katie: The music is great!
Bradley: But the whole... I was like, "yeah, it is mate, I heard you the first six times." He was really excited. He was very excited.
Katie: And look there at his little face! Aw.

(Bradley stretches and groans)
Katie: Good stretch. Good epic, epic stretch.
Bradley: Well I hadn't had one this morning because we had one so early.
Katie: I'm trying to ruin your stretch by tickling and it's not working.
Bradley: No, that's because I'm not ticklish.
Katie: I bet you are. I bet you are, I just have to find where you are.
Bradley: Yeah. (awkward pause)
Katie: It's probably getting inappropriate now, isn't it?
Bradley: (laughs, lapses into awkward silence) Ah, an inappropriate awkward silence after being prodded by Katie McGrath.
(Katie laughs, silence again.)
Bradley: I still need to stretch, though.
Katie: I still want to ruin it, but I can't be bothered again.
Bradley: Right. (stretches, probably) Alright, I feel better now.
Katie: Feel better? More focused? Head back in the game?
Bradley: It's not that I wasn't focused, Merlin fans. I'm completely focused.

Bradley: These chains are meant to be magical chains, but they don't look like...
Katie: Typical, or something?
Bradley: Yeah.
Katie: They're very shiny. I think that's the point.
Bradley: They look like chains you'd put around, like, a cupcake, or something.
Katie: You put chains around your cupcakes?
(NB: I may have misheard the "cupcake" thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure I did, but it is a HILARIOUS THING to mishear, so I left this in there.)

Katie: You can explain a lot of things in this show by it being magical.
Bradley: Yeah.
Katie: Colin's cheekbones? Magical.
Bradley: Morgause's eyeliner? Magical.
Katie: And that's an indicator of evil!
Bradley: Gwaine's hair! Magical.
Katie: I read a review where he was described as the Cheryl Cole of Merlin, or something.
Bradley: (cracks up)
Katie: I just thought that was classic.
Bradley: (still laughing) The Cheryl Cole of Merlin!
Katie: I'm going to have to tell him.
Bradley: Oh, that's a good one. The Cheryl Cole of Merlin...
Katie: It's good, isn't it?
Bradley: That's brilliant. Perfect.

Bradley: It's funny, when you first see people who were cast, and you can instantly tell the people who come in from LA.
Katie: Good teeth.
Bradley: And the people who have just sort of perfection about them, and their tan...
Katie: I was just going to say, their all-over tan. Which we got to see!
Bradley: Hopper and Eoin, they turned up really well tanned.
Katie: Santiago.
Bradley: Santiago, Hopper, and...
Katie: All have good hair, too! I'm seeing the connection.
Bradley: Well Hopper. He's got a fantastic hairline, I suppose.
Katie: There you go. And then you can tell the people from England. Pasty.
Bradley: And all us pasty people have been in the studio in Wales.
Katie: Haven't got out in months. Oh, man, epic difference.
Bradley: Months alone with no social skills left whatsoever.
Katie: That's assuming you had social skills to begin with.
Bradley: Well, I think I had a couple, but...
Katie: Did you?
Bradley: Yeah.
Katie: Really?
Bradley: I used to have friends before this show started.
Katie: (shocked) No!
Bradley: I know!

OH, THEM.

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