how hi how are you guys oh good how are you so so uh 20 30 years ago fantasy was uh
like a second-class genre and since the i don't know since the lord of the rings it's
like a champions league here and i wonder what's your what's your relationship with
the fantasy generation and if you have a special favorite of your own?
Yeah i mean well i've i've always i've grew up with the like the harry potter books personally
and that was something that's kind of like grew up as i grew up with those characters but i think
the lord the rings films were something that i think were quite a seismic shift in terms of like
those films and and and i think they brought in a lot of new people into fantasy i think those
peter jackson films were just incredible in terms of the prosthetics the size the scale um so yeah
i think that was the first time i really found myself escaping into um into that world fully
okay thank you cheers
hi my name is joanna i'm a journalist for public newspaper in portugal um
it's impossible not to mention game of thrones so i might as well be the
one to mention it and it had a tremendous impact not only uh worldwide and viewers
but also on its actors careers and their even their fame um do you guys feel that you had to
get ready or does one get ready for that type of thing before a big show like this premieres
it's really hard to answer because you know it's everything is still anticipation
uh we've been working um we started in 2019 and because of COVID the shooting took two years
and we kind of lost track of that there was an end result and that um there was actually a show
coming out which is coming out pretty soon now but uh yeah it's um i guess we have have had a
lot of time to think about it and to anticipate it but i can't i i just guess you know you you um
we'll have to see and wait what happens and then until then uh we can only wait and see you know
hello i'm paula from efi from spain i would like to know in fact what do you what do you predict
i mean um as my colleague was saying the name of all these big sagas come out
what do you think do you think that they will and the wheel of time can be successful as all these
these other titles that we have mentioned um yeah i mean it's obviously like you said in these until
the show is out and it's had that full reception is quite hard for just predict but i think
there's a lot of elements in there that you know we really believe in and we think there's a lot of
potential there it's got the scale of it is is is amazing that the sets the the the the stunts the
visual effects and then you have you know working with the likes of Rosamund Pike and Álvaro Morte
is um is amazing so there's all those elements there but i guess it's just you it's you can never
really fully know how people are gonna um take it and digest it so um i guess we'll find that
out yeah but i do you know i do really believe in this show um and you know i think all we we all
all are coming from different places all around the world and coming here in prague together we
we we definitely um try to give it our all uh and i i think there's really a
heart for the story and the characters here and real collaboration and uh um
so that that's our input and that's all i have control over and uh you know the
output what the world does with it that's i guess what we're going to see pretty soon
hi valentina from from italy and it's interesting how in this tv show every character thinks that he
or she is the hero of his own story but to other people he or she could be a villain
so in your opinion what makes a villain?
well that's an interesting question i think that that's something that comes back in the wheel of
time a lot you know it's not simply good against evil the many shades of grey in between and you
know is it really bad if is someone really evil if they're just trying to you know save their own
lives or save the lives of their loved ones that's definitely a question that this show brings up
hi uh sarah cook from uh HeyUGuys in the uk uh your characters in particular are very
interesting because they're just being opened up to their powers as well as having this burden
about possibly being the next dragon how do you um work with your characters in that respect
yeah i think i think you there's obviously there's a lot of source material that you can delve into
with these it was amazing books and there's beautiful chapters that Robert Jordan has of just
the point of view of like the inner monologues where you can really understand how they're going
through each stage of this journey um but i think what's quite cool that we've kind of started off
quite a big journey like these characters have it was quite a big crazy environment when we
came it's a new journey and you know we're kind of being dragged through these different sets and
new cast coming in and filming in different locations so um you're kind of growing up with
the character which is quite a unique experience but something as an actor is really really special
okay um so uh this is what i would call epic television in a way because of the type of
storytelling and the the means of production that you guys have at your disposal just to to
work with how does an actor find its stance and its vibe in such a mega production as this one
well i guess you know especially when we started everything was quite overwhelming i i've never
worked on a production with it with a scale so so big as this one especially you know
even day one you know walking into the two rivers they built that whole village with
with with you know hundreds of people walking around there the animals it's just
nothing like i've ever seen before and um and and you know their drones and their cranes and there's
so many cameras but you know in the essence it's still the same thing you can have like
five cameras but you know it's a one it doesn't matter it's about what you do with the performance
uh so i guess that's just what you focus on it's just you and the other actor and you
try to respond and listen to the other act and try to respond in a way that you think is the
essence of the character so um that's what i've said to myself quite a lot especially
you know starting season one is you know when i hear action that is home
and that's something i'm familiar with although everything around me is is all very different
thank you
yeah sure uh guys you mentioned alvaro morte and being myself from spain i have to ask
you about him and were you guys friends from uh his tv show or did you guys because
you've just met a lot of interesting people here in the set i wonder what do you guys thought after
or before shooting yeah sure i did yeah i was kind of blown away when i i'll be honest i hadn't
all my friends were obsessed with money heist said i hadn't actually i hadn't actually
watched i was like the one friend of my group i hadn't watched it yet so when i
met alvaro and i wasn't aware of how prominent he was and we went for a meal and he had people
coming up to him saying professor like asking for a picture like every five minutes but
i think it was a real show of his character just how gracious he was with everyone and he was so
excited to meet us as like very starting out in our careers and and and he was he was so willing
to help and he just he very much just felt like another part of the crew he brought an incredible
presence and energy for that character and obviously his name and uh prestige came
with that as well but he um yeah it very much felt like a collaborative process and he was
he was just lovely man yeah he was i i was aware of La casa del papel i i actually uh was uh watching
it quite a lot also during a lockdown with uh with my mum but um i won't talk too much about that but
more about Alvaro he's i think he's a great um i'm very happy he has joined the the wheel of time
uh family and uh i worked with him very briefly and i'm i'm aware of his work and i i think but
that's you know with the wheel of time the whole time a lot of characters are being introduced and
and a lot of the world is only getting bigger and bigger and so more actors are coming in
like Alvaroand uh and you know if something like uh someone like that comes in you feel like you
have to step up your game uh almost every day uh yeah so that's great yeah thank you guys cool uh
Rosmunid Pike's character says that the strength of your powers are not only your special powers
but also your minds so do you agree with there and how can we work on our minds it's not easy i know
yeah i think i think in this obviously in the story that all these characters as they go on
the journey they realize they've got a particular ability that they found out um on on their journey
but i think what's what they really have to figure out is their character and how they can navigate
through this scary and dangerous and and chaotic world and i think um a lot of the strength comes
from you know the bravery of their friendship and their love for one another so although they might
have these amazing powers that they they find i think a lot of the power i know from my scenes
with Egwene comes from just her bravery and her courage um and things like that so i think um it's
really nice to see that the power sometimes isn't actually the actual channeling it's
it's it's the decision-making and the sacrifice and friendship that um these characters have
with the exception of your own characters is there any other side uh villain or hero
uh i say to die or like the white cloaks that you'd love to play or explore
the dark one the dark one um what the white the white cloaks are pretty common like yeah like
Abdul [Salis] like that that whole get up the whole yeah that whole outfit the costumes on this are insane
sometimes you get quite you get a lot of costume envy when you meet a new character comes in and
they've got a lot of kind of bits and new armor and all this kind of stuff i'm like that's yeah
because even like yeah the stuff at the end when we go to like well yeah we can't say that but um
but there's yeah there's there's a lot of characters and new cultures and and
there's obviously what comes with that is different military or different royalty and
so there's there's uh an array of costumes that i get a lot of jealousy off and i'm like
i'd love to i'd love to be wearing that Pevin has a wicked coat wicked coat
what do you think what makes this story unique and special
what makes the special markers i am
you know what you were talking about i think why don't you give me
um well i you know i really think this is special for many different reasons uh for me it is first
of all that in this world the women are in control and that's very refreshing you know the guide is
is more rain and she's a woman as well if men use the power they go mad they abuse the power
and it's a very diverse cost and i can i can feel the strength of that out
every day and it's it's so refreshing and i feel like that's how it's supposed to be but
i what i really believe is what makes this show special is are those two rivers um
folk and um because those relationships feel real and those are the characters that you go on
um this journey with and you your witness of everything they go through and
and and they to me are what makes the wheel of time special the genuine relationships