Prime Video’s The Wheel of Timeis back! To celebrate the show’s return, Geeks of Color was lucky enough to sit down with the cast of the beloved fantasy series to chat about the latest season.
The series, based on author Robert Jordan’s acclaimed series of novels, has grown in popularity since its debut in 2021. This is because with every season, the series’ characters have significantly evolved, as the story has gotten closer and closer to matching its literary counterpart in terms of quality and complexity.
We had the wonderful pleasure of sitting with two of the stars of the show, Marcus Rutherford and Dónal Finn.
Check out the full interview with Marcus Rutherford and Dónal Finn below:
In the new season, Perrin has a crazy fight scene involving an axe. So, we wanted to know from Rutherford what it was like for him to film such an epic scene.
“Yeah, the description in the books of the axe attack – remember how intense it reads off the page? We had to choreograph it a lot with someone. And there’s obviously the effect shots…I think the lovely thing about the show is we built up with the stunts team now, doing a few actions, that you start to understand what is needed. Stuff that isn’t in camera, and stuff that isn’t, you know, kind of reacting to stuff. So a lot of it was done with some work and that choreography…Those are all his kind of actual movements. To make it feel like the axe is kind of dragging him across and stuff. But none of that CGI in any way. So, it was kind of a balance of different people’s kind of abilities…”
This season, there is a lot going on with Mat and the horn, with much being revealed about the horn itself. So, we asked Finn what he could tease for us, or anything that excited him most about the happenings of Mat in Season 3.
Finn said, “He didn’t really expect this for himself. And we see that at the end of the season too, in a newfound title. Which means that he has a lot to offer this world, which is not just to help his friends. Like to keep his friends upbeat. You know, I think he thinks that like he knows, though, that you know, on a surface level. There’s going to be more expected of him, and it’s a kind of a new thing for him to contend with mentally. He thinks that he’s got to find a kind of a sense of being comfortable with responsibility, with accountability. Like people should be able to defend them, given that he has a new title. As such, like wanting to step back from that, or just been an enjoyable moment of his worldview shifting to the new states. I think that he is contending with knowing that people will be looking for like more from him as a character, this kind of reluctant hero.”