Magic Morgan, Mean McGrath: The Stars of Merlin Speak

Their bewitching adventures begin again this Friday.

We don't know what it's like to wield magic, so we asked two people who do...sort of. Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath, best known to us as Arthurian adversaries Merlin and Morgana, gave us the lowdown on becoming legend.

GeekChicDaily: If you had magic powers, what would you use them for and why?

Colin Morgan: Probably for teleportation, having spent a lot of time in airports recently. Keeping your shoes on and not having to stand in passport-control lines for four hours would be great.

GCD: Katie, when the show began, were you hoping to yourself that you'd eventually get to play Morgana's turn to evil?

Katie McGrath: Being familiar with the legend, you know that she's going to become this great and all-powerful evil badass, and for me that's the bit I was waiting for every year. The producers would tell me we're going a bit slow, we're going to slow-burn it, and I'm sitting there going, "No, no, no! I want it to happen now!"

GCD: You've been doing a lot of period roles. Do you ever wish you could just play a character in shorts and a T-shirt?

KMG: God yeah! Give me an AK-47 and a pair of jeans, and gimme some aliens to fight. They're doing a Blade Runner prequel; I could do that. Let's just phone up Ridley...

For more sass and sorcery, conjure up our full interview with Colin and Katie. Merlin premieres Friday at 10pm on Syfy.

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