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Daily wire's epic fantasy TV series, the Pendragon cycle rise of the Merlin is topping the charts on Amazon Prime. First, overseas and now here in the US. It's reached as high as number one in fantasy in the US and number three among all TV series. Because of all that buzz, we thought it was high time to re-air our original interview with one of the stars of the series 'Rose Read' who talked to us right before the series first aired on daily

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daily wire plus series 'The Pindragan Cycle' rose so great to have you in studio. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, I'm so excited to be here. It's so cool to get to finally meet you both. You too, and I'm a little star struck. I mean, we've got screens, people don't know this at home, but we have screens all over the office that are just playing Pindragan scenes, so you're all over the place. Yeah, that's a little alarming for sure. I was walking through the cafeteria there.

I was like, oh, that's, that's the bull sequence. Okay, cool. That's, that's always a little

unnerving. Yeah, here I am, injured badly again. Yeah, and again, again. Yeah, it's a little nicer though because I have a very different hair color, so I feel like I'm flying in cognito with like slightly darker hair right now. So that makes me, that makes me feel like I'm one of the cool celebrities with the sunglasses. Yeah, and built-in protection. Yeah. The, you know, look, it's an epic series. And I, I'm curious, I have a bunch of questions for you, but I'm curious what it's like to

step back and look at yourself in a series like this. I mean, this is big. You've done a lot of projects, but this one seems like in terms of scope, maybe the biggest you've worked on, right? Yeah, definitely. And what, what is that like for you? What is it like seeing yourself on the screen in this form? Well, it's very, I feel like a alarming isn't really the right word to use to say, you know, seeing myself on screen in this form, but it's definitely, it's, it's a very

cool thing. I'm a huge fantasy nerd. And so, you know, especially as a writer, I've always wanted to

write fantasy. So getting to, getting to come on board and not only write, but also act in a very high fantasy show has just been really incredible and very daunting. And there were, there were a lot of fears and challenges going into it, but I'm very grateful that I got to be part of it, but still it. Just who hit? Yeah. There were some growing pains for sure on this one. You said daunting. And it was, I was, you know, when we first announced internally that we were taking on this project,

“I personally was like, we're going to pull off a high fantasy series when you have to compete with”

things like game of thrones. Were there fears for you that we're not going to be able to actually do this? I think I was a little delusional going into it. I was a little, you know, we had Dallas Sanya who I was like, wow, man. He's just, he's such a pro. He's worked with the best and really can create incredible things with very little funding and very little resources. And he can just create a masterpiece. So I had a little bit of delusion going into it, just being like, it's Dallas.

Will. It's good. It'll. But then I did get to see a little bit of how the sausage was made on, and it's be like, oh, okay, this is it's there was there was a lot more work going into

gets and the amount of funding that Holly would typically get. So that funding was replaced with

“manpower and creativity, which ultimately was such an incredible experience. And I got to where”

more hats than I would have been able to wear otherwise. So I'm very grateful for that. But yes, going into it, I was maybe a little bit more deluded than I am now. Well, speaking of wearing many hats, I don't know if a lot of you were to know just how many hats you wore. So what were

your roles aside from starring? So I was also a writer on season one and a co producer, which basically

just is a fancy term for meaning that because I wrote, I got to have the, I have the, I guess, the title co producer, but most of very grateful that Dallas and Jeremy gave me the opportunity to kind of be on the production team and get to learn a little bit about producing. It is a part of the world that I want to step into at some point. So I'm very grateful for that. You know what nobody warns you about when you buy a house? It's not the plan projects that

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go to home serve.com/morningwire and find a plan that's right for you. That's home serve.com/morningwire for 50% less savings compared to renewal price void in Florida. You have a writing background, obviously. You've written on some other projects. What was it like the writer's room? I remember hearing about this getting constructed and then you

“guys would go back into the secret writer's room and all that stuff. What was that process like for you?”

It was so cool because I was I was very young. I still am youngish but it was I was very young going into the writer's room and was very new to writing. I'd only written a couple of screen plays before and only had a couple of them produced. And so being a writer on it was another daunting part of

the process because I was writing with these incredible writers who had who had sold so many scripts

and even you know one of my mentors in a way Ryan Whitaker who I worked with on a project and who wrote one of my favorite screen plays, getting to work with him and kind of be a peer to him around a table was absolutely terrifying and it took me a while to actually speak up in the room and say wait hold on I have an idea for this and you know I was the only I was the only female writer as well so that was at first a little scary because I like I said it all all the other

men in the room I was like you guys all have so many more credits than me but everyone was really welcoming and in a way that didn't feel like condescending or anything being very young I was expecting that to kind of be part of the process but no it it was just really I would go back into it all over again it was very stressful because when you work on a project like this there are there's a lot of excellence that's demanded of the writers and of everyone on the team

but it was absolutely worth it I feel like the pressure did really mold us and created us hopefully into diamonds we'll see what viewers think but yeah ultimately it was it was a great experience even if it was like very stressful at first. It was a tight turnaround and you guys got on the road quick what in terms of the auditioning process what came first in terms of the writing versus which role particularly you played yeah that was a very long process actually because I was hired

as a writer to you know just be a staff writer in the room and as we got further into it and the more I learned about the character carous the more I really fell in love with her and the more I

started to realize that Dallas onya always has a plan and that he had originally said do you want

to act in the show and I said no what I really like to is right and at that point when he first asked me I hadn't read the books I didn't I wasn't familiar with the character and by the time I did read about the character I ended up kind of falling in love with her and she's a very unique character so I really pursued that and there were there were discussions of maybe I would play someone else maybe it wouldn't be this character and ultimately we we kind of all landed on her and I was the one

and I've never gotten to play a character like her before so but yes writer writing came first which

was very odd ultimately because you write something being like that poor actress who's going to have to go do that and then it's you you're the poor actress who has to go do that jump in legs and jump over balls exactly speaking of the jumping over balls which we already mentioned that's an epic scene and I mean I think what was going through my mind is like how did you train physically to get in the shape to do that how much of those how much of the stunts were you and then I mean

just didn't just to get the physique weren't needed to be I mean what did you do to prepare yeah it was a it was a lot of a lot of time that went into it but I'm very grateful that Dallas and and the production team and everybody gave me the time and opportunity to do that and gave me the resources I needed to to train for that I was not a track athlete going into this so I had to learn how to and the the the biggest thing Jeremy wanted to make sure

happened was that I was able to do as many of the stunts as I could as we needed to to make it look realistic on camera which just meant a lot of running and he was like you've just got to be able

“like you like Tom Cruise that's how you run yes true and he actually brought that up a lot”

which we did not know that but other than that it's fine but we did you know he really was just like we were gonna you're gonna be running a lot on on set we're gonna be running a lot in this arena and you've just got to be able to you know have the stamina to do it really and so that was the main thing that we really focused on was having the the cardio strength to be able to to hang in there and man I could have run a marathon back then and now I'm like wezing after a mile so we need to

maybe get back into that routine a little bit but yeah that was a really and you weren't an athlete going into this not really no I mean I played volleyball but that's about and that's like generous to say that I played volleyball what about the horseback riding you you come you have a farm yes I do have a farm I do have a farm and this is something I could talk about all day because I love horses I do have horses I have four of my own and yeah horses was that that aspect of it I was very excited about

and getting to swing up on them and you know ride bareback in a couple of scenes and stuff like that was was so much fun and just getting to goof around with our horse wrangler they were we really had some of the best stunt team horse wranglers that we could have asked for and that's something else that I really credit to you know yes Dallas but also just the production and it as a whole because we we brought the best of the best people from Androsha Nutella who made the the costumes in the

wardrobe to the actors like Daniel Fathers he was incredible and the horse team like everybody

truly truly were the experts in their fields which just made us all feel very safe even in situations when you know it's very dangerous stunts how how were the elements in terms of filming locations you're on top of mountains half the time how was that was it cold was it harsh yes all

“of the above but it was also very immersive and I think that that was that was just what we really”

had to lean into you know I've made this joke several times that you know and we we shot for about six months so we shot in summer fall and winter pretty much and are like you know bits and pieces of each and we when we were shooting in like the tail end of summer I was running around and like my fairly dresses and it was like this is so great all the boys are in their furs and I'm in like my I've got sleeveless shirts on and it's great and then of course December rolls around and you're

still in your sleeveless and you're still in your fairly dresses and the boys still have their first the boys are way happier than I was but it was very immersive and you know when you get in the lake and you're meant to be kind of cold and uncomfortable because this guy is kind of you know spying on you or whatever you think he's spying on you you get to lean into that as a character when you're you know dealing with a very emotional scene in the pouring rain and December you get

to lean into that discomfort and lean into that pain and being on man being in the in the mountains of Trentino and being in the wind and everything and and we were shooting in a cloud one day it was

really incredible getting to do that it's so easy to let the cameras fall away and just step into

the scene and be the character so yes it was not fun sometimes but it was very good for the characters when you do discuss this maybe with friends you know what in terms of the story that what drew you to it the most what is it what do you think what what is the most powerful element of this

“series I think that probably second chances all of the characters are most of them experience some”

some form of redemption and having to you know to use a phrase from the show go back the way you came and that's true of my character it's true of James Arden's character Taliessen it's true

I think that that that's a really powerful message to me because I mean I've made plenty of mistakes

and I would love to go back and change them and and have the opportunity to move forward without

“them weighing me down and so I think that that's a beautiful message to be giving people is that”

you don't have to keep walking in the way that in the direction that you're going you can make a change you can have that second chance to to write that wrong and be a better person and you know all the things you ought to but that was the that was the strongest message that I kind of got from the books is that you can you can write the wrongs you can you know have that redemption so yeah that really spoke to me in the in the scripts as well okay so aside from Pendragon what

are your favorites or what is your favorite oh my gosh okay well I I've just recently gotten obsessed with red rising and I am loving these books right now Harry Potter is also obviously a huge one I I only got interested in Harry Potter actually more recently I wasn't a huge Harry Potter fan growing up but growing up at Star Wars it was all of the whole Star Wars universe I was a big clone Wars girl and anything it basically any kind of Star Wars spin off I was obsessed with I just think

it's so interesting the other languages and coming up with rules and cultures and how does this and

“often they are you know unintentionally metaphors for our societies and stuff so I just I think it's”

so interesting also Dune I love Dune. Dune's incredible. Dune's incredible. Have you read the books?

Yes yeah Dune the first Dune the first is the best sci-fi book of all time. It's whole good how do you feel about the second movie which one's better? Dune one or Dune two? Dune one. The the reason I think this uh this is no one's gonna want to hear that the problem with Dune is the the world view that takes over that is built in from the beginning is very dark and very fatalistic and so you you realize it more and more as you watch that movie so the second movie

you realize and oh my gosh where this is going is very dark as not what you think. It's not a it's not a Judeo Christian exact perspective it's not a good perspective on a Messiah so that and that's true of the entire series so I've read all of them and they get kind of darker darker so I love I love that I can have some hope and optimism in the first one. Yeah that's that's so fair I think

“yeah my hot take is that that's why I love Dune two is because I think I love I love a good anti”

hero I don't know I'm gonna really like out myself here but um I don't know if you guys have seen attack on Titan but it's a it's an anime and it is I have watched half of that yeah it's it's the same kind of thing where it's it's like it goes down a dark path but I think it's oh man I think that dark ones are the most beautiful though because they they they touch a part of your soul that you didn't think anybody else saw and there's something in that being seen and I do

think that that's part of like Merlin story and in the Pendragon cycle is that he goes to some dark places and I think that there's something about showing those dark places that he goes to that really makes people feel seen and so that's part of the reason I don't know I like Dune two. Well I'm glad you brought that up I do think part of the reason the daily wire in Jeremy boring is is drawn to things that he feels and we feel are true to life, true to human psychology

resonate with people are not rose colored glasses or not you know putting a little beautiful shine on something that actually is dull and dark you know and I think this series does does that and do you in terms of adding to the cannon so the follow-up question to this sort of bigger picture you love you love fantasy do you feel like this book series and this now this TV series adds to the fantasy series a fantasy sort of cannon in any significant way I think so because I think

that you know you're taking it in in a lot of ways it's historical fantasy which I think that we don't see a ton of so yes I think that it's it I hope you know if I can you know be a little grandiose I hope that it does contribute I love the historical aspect of it that these ideas that that these myths are true I think that that's something that I really was drawn to about this and I'm sure that this is something that some people will struggle with but I love to that we

portrayed some of the old gods of the like I thought that that was so cool to portray them and and the the designs that are special effects artists to the just from a creative standpoint they

were incredible yeah just really spectacular so I think that just from a historical fantasy standpoint

I hope so I think that if nothing else I think that we created something that did feel very authentic

but I also think that we did it excellently and yes of course there are things that that I watch

“especially in my performance or whatever and I'm like oh man I wish I would have or I wish I”

would have written that line that way or whatever it was there's plenty of things that you know

you always think you can do better but as a whole I'm so proud of this team and I'm so proud of the

the producers who who pulled it off and the production quality and the performances that I you

“know fingers crossed I hope it I hope it becomes somewhat canon we do too and I think it I think”

it will it really is amazing I'm excited for people to see it thank you so much for joining us

yeah thank you so much that was Rose Reed one of the stars and writers of the new daily

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