I Can Only Put Myself In The

I Read As Much As I Could, But Really Just Spoke To Chris Chibnall And Asked All The Pertinent Questions. That Made Me Feel Like We Weren't Going To Do An Off-the-peg Camelot, Which Has Been Touched Upon In Many Films And Tv Series Before. I Really Just Picked His Brain And, In Doing So, I Got Fired Up By Tackling Merlin In A Fresher Angle.

But It's A Strange Thing When People Judge You Because You're Not Doing Some Big Hollywood Film. Are You Suggesting I Should Be In The Dukes Of Hazzard? I Mean, Hello?

I Don't Know What My Limitations Are Until I Reach Them. I Look For The Challenge.

I Also Wanted To Have Fun With It. I Wanted To Have The Scope, Which I Felt Merlin Has, In His Machiavellian Bi-polar Way. He's Not To Be Trusted, Yet He Is Fighting For This Great Power And Is Really A Master, To Some Degree, In Orchestrating Camelot And King Arthur. He's A Strange, Dark Devious Character, And I Just Wanted To Have Fun, And Get Away From The Cloak And Long Beard And Pointy Hat.

Youth Is A Predominant Factor. We Are Seeing A Young King Arthur, And Thereby A Young-ish - As I'm Into My 40s - Merlin. It Was About How To Tackle It, From That Point View.