{"id":21675,"date":"2026-03-07T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21675"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T20:35:19","slug":"many-rise-of-the-merlin-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21675","title":{"rendered":"Many &#8220;Rise of the Merlin&#8221; Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Actress Rose Reid Talks The Rise Of The Merlin\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRy2_K7z9mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author Jon Del Arroz conducted interviews with some the people involved in The Daily Wire&#8217;s <em>The Rise of the Merlin<\/em>. In the video above, he talked to Rose Reid, a writer and the actress who plays Charis in the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;By the time we got to film,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I had spent so much time in her skin as it were, she felt very second nature. . . . I wanted to go back and see the prophecy and her relationship with her mother, but it&#8217;s ultimately not her story. It&#8217;s Merlin&#8217;s story.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next, Del Arroz talked writer Lee Blaylock, who spoke more to how they adapted Lawhead&#8217;s work to the screen. Blaylock says, &#8220;You&#8217;ve seen episode three, so now you know where Merlin&#8217;s story begins at least in the episode. Now, in the book that&#8217;s halfway through the book. We have a whole first half that details Merlin&#8217;s youth and adolescence. We plotted that out as well. We put that on the board, this is what these episodes would look like, but . . . we realized he&#8217;s just too passive. While the things that are happening are interesting and fascinating, he&#8217;s not \u2014 it commits that grievous error in scriptwriting that your character&#8217;s not active enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Rise Of The Merlin Writer Talks The DEEP Secrets Of the Pendragon Cycle\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRFxJe_wB2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the next video, Del Arroz talked to James Arden, who plays Taliesin. This is the first of his interviews, so they avoid plot details when talking specifics. Arden said that wasn&#8217;t his voice when his character sang, because he can&#8217;t sing in tune. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was really awkward to stand \u2014 because obviously everyone has to react to Taliesin&#8217;s voice, which is described in the books . . . as a voice so beautiful that it gives the illusion that you have no wound. You have no pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Arden on The Rise of the Merlin | Exclusive Interview\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ibMwYk_cifU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And earlier this week, he spoke to the main showrunner, writer, and director of the series Jeremy Boreing. He said producing a series like this has to care for the audience, who may have rejected such entertainment because so many other shows have let them down. &#8220;We&#8217;re so concerned the Left is going to put us in the ghetto that we do the work for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jeremy Boreing On The Pendragon Cycle&#039;s Unlikely WIN!\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yDiZMwbtcs8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Jon Del Arroz conducted interviews with some the people involved in The Daily Wire&#8217;s The Rise of the Merlin. In the video above, he talked to Rose Reid, a writer and the actress who plays Charis in the show. &#8220;By the time we got to film,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I had spent so much time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Many &#8220;Rise of the Merlin&#8221; Interviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1317,4200,5744,5742,3215],"class_list":["post-21675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-interview","tag-merlin","tag-the-daily-wire","tag-the-pendragon-cycle","tag-tv-series"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21774,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21675\/revisions\/21774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}