Tom in Oz | Radio interview with Hinksy on 97.3FM [pic] + Channel TEN interview? + SMH article
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HinksyOfficial Thanks @Tomhopperhops ,#Merlin's Sir Percival & Nelsan Ellis, #TrueBlood's Lafayette for coming in! @SupanovaExpo
Sadly there doesn't seem to be a 'Listen Again' option available for Hinksy's show. :/
According to a tweet Tom was also spotted on Channel Ten and apparently he's been interviewed (maybe for 'The Metro Whip-Around' for TEN's 'The Project'?) by Adam Cox who also interviewed Colin last year (video not yet available on TEN's website to check).
AdamCox17 @Tomhopperhops Thanks for helping out and being a good sport tonight Tom. Say g'day to Rufus for me & have a good one!
SydneyMorningHerald: A vampire who hates blood and a knight who loves stunts
“There's aspects of all of our characters in all of us,” he says. “Bradley [James, who plays Arthur], he's our captain, and he's very good, he's a natural leader.
“Eoin [Macken] who plays Gwaine is always joking around a lot, Bradley has to pull him into line, and I just sort of stay quiet and do my job as the goalkeeper,” says Hopper.[click to read]A vampire who hates blood and a knight who loves stunts
Also up to its fifth series is The Adventures of Merlin, the BBC's take on the King Arthur legends, screened here on Channel 10.
Tom Hopper joined the cast as steadfast Sir Percival at the end of series three and has enjoyed getting to know the show's “intense” fan base, many of whom come to events like Supanova in full Arthurian armour.
“I love being able to connect with fans and give something back, because at the end of the day we enjoy making the show,” says the 27-year-old.
“I think as a kid I would've loved cosplay - I was always dressing up as something.”
The well-muscled Englishman confesses to getting the biggest kick on the Merlin set from doing his own stunts in the show's many fight scenes.
“You learn how to launch yourself off things,” he says with a laugh.
Does the camaraderie between Hopper and his fellow Knights of the Round Table translate from onscreen to off?
“Dangerously so,” he grins, describing how they get together for football matches, and wind up playing in a similar style to heroes of Camelot.
“There's aspects of all of our characters in all of us,” he says. “Bradley [James, who plays Arthur], he's our captain, and he's very good, he's a natural leader.
“Eoin [Macken] who plays Gwaine is always joking around a lot, Bradley has to pull him into line, and I just sort of stay quiet and do my job as the goalkeeper,” says Hopper.
But he says football has now been banned from the set after one too many injuries to cast members.
Hopper's next project is a Michael Bay-produced series called Black Sails, which follows characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island 20 years before the events of the book. He'll play Billy Bones in the show, which begins shooting in Cape Town in the new year.
But he hopes to return to Camelot, if a sixth series of Merlin is green lit, as he likes how the show has developed.
“You look at series five and compare it to series one, and it's a lot darker,” he says. “Merlin and Arthur, for instance, have grown from young lads into men.”
“It's grown with the demographic.”