TM: You must have had to learn an awful lot of lines for Knightmare, was that the case? Or was it a lot of ad-libbing?
Which is to say, no rehearsals and no re-takes, so what you saw on the box was what actually happened. Yeah, I had a lot of stuff to learn.
Which took a lot of that study away. TM: Knightmare was quite good life preparation in a way as it showed life could at times be quite cruel and unfair…. HM: Oh yeah. You knew in two or three scenes time they were going to need that red ruby or whatever it was. I tried to help the younger ones a bit more.
But at the same time without appearing to do so, which is quite a trick. TM: Was it hard to not break character sometimes when you saw something funny or awkward happen?
HM: Yes. It was a very exciting thing to do. TM: You tended to do a lot of your acting just through your eyes. We could get what you were conveying quite clearly. TM: That was horrific at the time. But the spider Ariadne might have been worse. Did you get many complaints from viewers?
HM: No. Mary Whitehouse, as far as I remember, wrote some article saying we were introducing children to witchcraft and some such stuff like that. HM: Not at all. They were in a blue void, it was blue screen. All they could see is a circle of blue at their feet. In fact when a small child came through the door for the first time some of them were visibly shaking. But within literally a few minutes of them being in the studio, they forgot about all the lights and all the cameras and whatever else and got completely entranced by the game, which was fabulous.
TM: That element of suspension of disbelief was absolute on the show. Nowadays with updated modern graphics do you think it would translate? We never thought it would be repeated, even now I get invitations to places because of it 30 years on. TM: Knightmare was quite the forerunner in terms of its creativity. Then we had Mark Cordory who produced the dragon and all those wonderful things, just incredible.
It sounds terribly cruel of me, but I was terribly disappointed that no one got blown up in the bomb room. Of course, mine came and went a considerable number of times. TM: You were a bit of a trendsetter yourself, beards have been everywhere in recent years….
I always used to regard it like an article of clothing, you put it on for this and take it off for that. I mean I did thirty-eight pantomimes and I generally got to play the villain, so that was a bearded role, Abanazar, the Prince of Darkness, King Rat or whoever it was. TM: Do you think you were typecast in any way because of your role as Treguard? There was a well-behaved family sitting across the way and these two young boys kept looking at me and the father came over to me, this is when I was doing Treguard and I thought he was going to say my children have seen you in Knightmare.
He obviously thought me and this beard with this Breton hat that I was Captain Haddock. How the mighty fall. I suppose I ought to have played him, but never did.
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