{"id":28784,"date":"2012-09-13T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=28784"},"modified":"2012-09-14T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T08:31:58","slug":"merlin-series-5-mordred-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/merlin-series-5-mordred-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Merlin Series 5: Mordred Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_ma98ngkMU31r1vyc0o2_1280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-28787\" title=\"tumblr_ma98ngkMU31r1vyc0o2_1280\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_ma98ngkMU31r1vyc0o2_1280-616x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Were you nervous on your first day on the set of Merlin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander Vlahos:<\/strong> For want of a better word, I was bricking myself. The level of banter and familiarity with the cast is unlike anything, so to come in as the new kid was a little daunting. The jokes, especially with the knights, left me going &#8220;What the hell are they talking about?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was there any additional pressure that comes with the character?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asa [Butterfield], who played Mordred originally, did such a good job, and he was so well-loved, so I try and live up to what he did. I watched all of Asa\u2019s work as Mordred to try and make sure I don\u2019t mess it up. There\u2019s a big time jump, though, so I\u2019m having to fill in what happened. The audience aren\u2019t stupid, they know it\u2019s a different actor playing the part, so I\u2019m having to bring a little bit of me to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you mimicking any ticks Asa had?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is one thing that he does that I wanted to get in as quick as I could and then that be it, almost like a little nod, and even if the audience didn\u2019t pick up on it that\u2019s fine, but Asa has this great thing where the last time you see him he has this brilliant smile and then he drops it within a second and looks as evil as anything. I wanted to bring that in as a nod to the past and from then onwards it would be my approach to Mordred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will your costume be very different?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were lots of photos of Asa and his iconic cloak, and I quite clearly said I wanted to get away from that. If I\u2019m drawimng parallels with him acting-wise and costume-wise, it\u2019s like we\u2019re trying to cheat the audience into believing it\u2019s the same person playing him. I wanted him to be who I pictured him to be when I read the script. He\u2019s older, had life experiences and I\u2019m pleased with the introduction, it\u2019s not as you expect at all. I know a lot of people are drawing comparisons to Agravaine and thinking Mordred\u2019s going to fulfil that same role, but wait and see is what I\u2019m saying\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Merlin Series 5 will return to BBC One this Autumn.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Vlahos on taking over from Asa Butterfield as Mordred in Merlin Series 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":28787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[7,207],"tags":[2779,2780,1763,2757,2778],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/tumblr_ma98ngkMU31r1vyc0o2_1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}