Xenite.Org Interviews Craig Horner

By Justin

Craig Horner stands in no one’s shadow. With 10 years’ experience, the 26-year-old actor (who just celebrated that birthday on January 24) now leads a talented cast in bringing Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth fantasy novels to life. In fact, there are so many famous names associated with the internationally syndicated Legend of the Seeker fantasy adventure series that it almost seems like the show was destined for success. Sam Raimi (“Spider-man”, “Darkman”) and Rob Tapert (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”, “Xena: Warrior Princess”) are the executive producers. Bruce Spence (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”, “Australia”, “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith”, “The Matrix Revolutions”, “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome”) is one of Craig’s co-stars.

When we spoke on the phone Craig was still working on the second season, with five more episodes to shoot. How does it feel compared to this point in your schedule last year? I asked. “Pretty grueling,” Craig confessed. “When it’s all done I can rest and recoup and I can really enjoy that. I guess last year I knew the day I wrapped I would go to the United States.”

Not for rest and relaxation. Apparently Craig was sent on a whirlwind press tour to help promote the show. This year he is hoping to appear at a major convention in the United States. He’s pretty excited about that as it came up a couple of times. If it happens this will be Craig’s first American entertainment event.

With nine months of intensive shooting for Legend of the Seeker Craig doesn’t get much time to do other projects. Still, considering that he is in New Zealand, I could not help but ask: Any chance you might have a role in ‘The Hobbit’?

“I’m going to look into that,” Craig admitted. Read more…

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LOTS SciFi Craig Horner Interview

By Justin

Craig Horner plays the eponymous Seeker, Richard Cypher, in SCI FI’s new fantasy series Legend of the Seeker which premieres on Thursday 13th August. Craig took time out from his action packed shooting schedule on the set of Season 2 in New Zealand to let us know what we can expect from the fantastical Legend of the Seeker.

Have you always been a fan of fantasy or was the whole swords and sorcery world new to you?

I was a massive fan of fantasy. I had an older brother who was about thirteen years older than me and he brought me into the world of Conan and star Wars. He had all these movies lying around, he had comic books everywhere; he had lots of the original Star Wars figures. I was easily brought into that world of fantasy. There wasn’t a day when I wasn’t running around the back yard with swords and killing imaginary orcs.

What’s your favourite fantasy film?

I love Conan, but do you know what? I’m one of those weirdoes who likes the sequel to Conan.

Have you read the Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth books?

Yeah, I read the first one and I’m just getting stuck into the second one now. I’m a big fan of the Sword of Truth, I think it’s a really good book. I’m also a fan of Legend of the Seeker, I kind of think they’re two different entities. The way I can best explain it is that I loved the original Star Wars movies and from then they spawned off and they went and did all these things – TV shows, comic books, cartoons, novels. They took the galaxy if you will – the characters and the mythology – and they expanded it. That’s kind of like what we’re doing. So I have huge respect for what we’re doing and Terry Goodkind’s books as well.

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