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There’s a major feature on in the latest issue of SFX – #227, on sale Wednesday 19 September – featuring interviews with all the main cast (and newcomer 🍒Alexander Vlahos as Mordred). To whet your appetite, here’s an extract from the section with Colin Morgan (Merlin) an❀d Bradley James (Arthur):

How have things changed for Merlin and Arthur since series four?

Colin Morgan: “Things are serious. There’s stuff happening up North in the frozen lands. The big thing is there’s a three-year g𒐪ap, so immediately you see Camelot in a different state, one that [Arthur’s] wanting it to be, and Merlin finds his place in that as well. There’s definitely a maturing in general of the whole series, but the banter’s still there between the two characters because that’s who they’ll always be, even though their situations are a lot more serious.”

Bradley James: “I ♓can&rsquo✨;t better that at all! The one point to pick up on purely from my character’s point of view is we’ve got a lot closer to the Camelot Arthur’s been trying to achieve, and having got there it’s now under threat. You put it so well, I really can’t… tough act to follow.”

Have you shot in any memorable locations?

Bradley James: “On the hottest day of the year we♔ shot in what was supposed to be a frozen la♛ndscape. It was roasting. We were sweating. And they were like, ‘Could you shiver more?’ ‘No. We can sweat more.’”

Colin Morgan: “We were getting snow blindness as well because it was essentially jus⭕t a big reflector up in your face all da🅰y, but I think that stuff’s gonna look awesome.”