I know you all are busy filming right now, and congratulations on Season 2.
I’m sure that’s a little bit of a relief.
MADELEINE MADDEN: Yeah, absolutely.
It’s wonderful to just have that reassurance from straight out of the gate.
And it’s been great to film while the show has come out.
Definitely, the anticipation of the release was quite nerve-wracking.
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So it’s been great to kind of lose ourselves in the work and keep trucking along.
It’s been a long wait too, to get this first season out finally.
MADDEN: Oh my god, seriously.
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I’m sure it’s probably having to think back on everything is probably a lot of work.
How was it for you to sort of be removed from the rest of the main cast?
MADDEN: Paired up with the most boring, untalented person in the world.
(laughs) No, he’s the complete opposite of that.
Look, I mean, it was wonderful.
Marcus is like a brother to me.
So we had a lot of fun on the road, literally.
And I think that’s the same for our characters.
And that’s something that connects them throughout the course of this entire series.
Everybody gets tested, for sure.
But this week, Perrin and Egwene really get a trial.
And that was something that, obviously, needed to be handled quite sensitively.
You get the brutality of the moment, without it feeling gratuitous.
That is something, that there’s no glorification of violence or sexual violence in this for shock value.
I think this is a story where there’s no need for it.
And that can be really powerful like you said, that there isn’t just this gruesome… yeah.
There’s none of that just for the sake of it, which I’m thankful for.
This is something that Egwene has noticed.
They’re each other’s reason for surviving and they find hope within each other.
And that’s something that will always bond them.
That’s a massive testament to Zoe’s [Robins] performance and her ability to storytell.
And so I think that’s something really inspiring.
She is literally unbreakable and a force to be reckoned with.
