Merlin actress Katie McGrath has spoken in a few different interviews about whether or not Morgana needs redemption, and how the show will wrap up.
Our latest round-up of interviews includes a lengthy Digital Spy Q&A with Katie McGrath, where the actress confesses that she’s glad the show is ending after the original five-year plan. “There would be a tendency, I think, if we kept on going, to repeat ourselves,” she says, “and now it’s going to hopefully going to finish really strong and answer everyone’s questions. It’s a real privilege to be able to do that, to be honest. I know it’s very rare that it happens.”
She goes on to claim that, “the last two episodes really answer all the questions that have been posed throughout the past five years.”
As for the ending, McGrath says that after seeing it, “everybody can say, ‘Yes – now I understand’. The journey is finished, the characters’ arcs have come to an end and.”
Finally, she talks about getting to work with Angel Coulby (Gwen) again. “It was funny, because we realised how much we’d missed [it]. We hadn’t had any proper Morgana/Gwen scenes since the second series, so when we started to get these scripts in, we thought, ‘Finally, some proper time for us and our characters’,” McGrath says.
And while she doesn’t think there’ll be a movie, she does have a few nice words about the cast. “To be honest, any chance to spend time again with Bradley, Colin and Angel, I’ll probably jump at in a heartbeat – I don’t care what it is. Pantomime in Woking, I’ll do it!” Let’s start the petition, folks!
Speaking to KSiteTV, McGrath is joined by Colin Morgan and Bradley James. Here, McGrath echoes the sentiment that, “We told the story as it was meant to be and as it was imagined.”
Further, Colin Morgan discusses dressing up as the old sorceress Dolma, saying, “It was a good one. I saw a friend of mine who is a voice coach, and I just worked with her a bit on the voice on it.” As far as the acting bit, “once I got into the actual costume itself, thankfully, it doesn’t have to be utterly a woman; it’s Merlin in a woman’s body, so it’s okay if I look awkward in it. It was definitely a lot of fun to play, and it’s all part of the challenge of this show.”
Morgan also talks about the difference between Merlin and Morgana, joking, “Merlin and Morgana aren’t two peas in a pod. They, well, maybe they were, but the bad pea rolled away.”
They also argue about whether Morgana needs redemption – Morgan thinks she does, but McGrath disagrees. “She believes she’s doing the right thing,” she says. “She’s not an evil person. She is fighting for what she believes, to free people like her.”
On what lies ahead in the final episodes, James says, “What happens in those episodes will continue to surprise audiences,” telling the story “in a different way.” McGrath adds, “I like the fact that there is a full stop,” which of course begs the question: do they all die after all?!