It’s gonna get dark.
So your magic’s useful after all?
Fate is a young adult fantasy show.
It’s a big broad fantasy show.
It’s got a little bit of horror in it.
It’s got some great coming-of-age tales in it.
That very basic question which is, ‘Who am I?’
and everybody goes through that.
I used to work on this show called The Vampire Diaries
and The Vampire Diaries did this great thing of being
a vampire show that was really just a grounded teen show.
And Netflix had the show called The Winx Club
and they wanted to take an audience that had watched
this cartoon growing up and give them a new version of it.
I’m sure it must be overwhelming.
An entirely new world.
I always talk about this show as the origin story of
a friend group and as you get older you always look
back on that group of friends that you had when
you were younger.
It was important for me that the core idea of friendship
was present in this version of the show
because that’s what Winx is.
We wanted to play within the Winx world but we also
wanted to introduce new storylines and characters.
Like Winx suite member Terra and her brother Sam who are
cousins of Flora who was in the original cartoon.
We’ve also got troublemaker Beatrix who might
remind fans of one of the Trix sisters.
Excuse me.
I’ll just take a water. Room temp. Thanks, love.
We are injecting life and death stakes like
instantaneously on these girls and these fairies and
specialists who have been trained for war but haven’t
experienced war yet and may be feeling
like they’re not ready; they’re not ready to
face the challenges that they face and it doesn’t matter,
and them having to be ready, regardless.
Fate is a story about a boarding school for fairies.
It’s like a normal school except you’re also learning magic.
And they go in their teenage years to start learning
about their powers and learning how to use them.
It focuses on one suite and ours in the Winx suite
so there’s five girls all living there and they all
have different kind of fairy powers and it’s about them
uncovering the secrets of the school and using their
powers together to fight evil.
The history of this place is a lot darker than Dowling
and the rest of the faculty want us to know.
I want that truth.
Bloom is a fire fairy who grew up in the First World.
So she did not grow up in the Otherworld.
And what realm are you from?
California.
And she finds out kind of by accident
that she has these powers.
Throughout season one it’s following her
journey with learning how to control them.
Fairy magic is linked to emotion.
It could be good thoughts...could be bad...
love...hatred...
Stella has control over light. Well… I say control…
She attempts to have control over light.
She’s a very complex girl.
She appears a certain way but she’s actually a lot softer
and she’s got a lot of barriers that need to be broken down.
Aisha is a water fairy.
From the offset she seems quite confident with her powers
but because she’s a perfectionist she doesn’t
think that’s good enough and she wants to
always be developing.
Terra’s power is all plant based.
It’s growing things and sending them off after people.
She is the most welcoming. She loves it.
She loves to meet new people. She gives too much.
Musa is an empath.
Her power is to feel everyone’s emotions.
Whether it be nature, or anything around.
She’s just open and honest but also she’s
not honest with herself and
she’s trying to learn how to do that.
You know it follows their story of becoming friends in
this first year; the ups and downs of it.
And really portrays the loyalty and trust
and support in female friendships.
How do you know how to steal a car?
I know how to do a lot of things.
It doesn’t just show the positive side of friendship,
it also shows the hardships as well.
Yes. Slightly more complicated
when you add a boy into the mix.
Yeah, I mean, there are gonna be love triangles.
I think there’s always gonna be ups and downs
just as any friendship.
All the girls are just a great time.
We all get on really really well.
Abbey is so wild and so care-free.
And also she’s got the funniest and loudest laugh
I’ve ever heard in my life.
Hannah is the opposite of Stella.
She is absolutely lovely.
Elisha who is absolutely gorgeous.
I’ve never known someone who will listen
to you just like she does.
Precious is so funny. The coolest human ever.
Honestly Eliot I feel like is the comedian of the group.
I mean they’re all hilarious.
They’re never not joking around.
It’s very easy for us to like,
just be around each other. All the time.
We are around each other all the time!
We’ve been so lucky.
We’ve been filming on set on the Winx suite which is in Bray
in Ardmore Studios Killruddery House which has
these beautiful grounds.
There’s an amazing conservatory and a castle.
They’re beautiful. Absolutely beautiful locations.
I’ve loved being in Ireland.
I love it here. Everybody’s so lovely all of the time.
The cast, the crew, the producers, everyone
everyone just builds each other up in such a fantastic way.
Fate is love, friendship,
Get dressed. We’re gonna go to the party
and show everybody that we’re cool and
Hot?
betrayal,
You can’t see how it’s a problem?!
I thought it didn’t matter
what other people thought.
dark and mysterious,
What the hell is that thing?!
you know, gritty and cool.
Action and adventure…
Maybe a little bit of saucy moments
and a lot of other things!
We’ll discuss consequences in the morning!
Is she like ‘detention pissed off’
or ‘expulsion pissed off’?
I’m going with the first one but only because of the tiny
bit of pride I also felt in there.