Actor Craig Horner Interviewed by Popular Fan Site
Friday, February 5th, 2010SciFi fan girls cannot seem to get their fill of Craig Horner fantasies. The hunky young star of the syndicated television show Legend of the Seeker inspires dreamy Tweets that might make a call girl blush. However, in an interview with science fiction fan site Xenite.Org Horner tells that he didn’t want his show to become “Baywatch in the Woods”. Nonetheless, the scifi site notes, Legend of the Seeker has paired up Horner with more female guest-stars than James Bond sees at a reunion of his old flames. “An Interview With Craig Horner” skips a lot of the usual fannish drivel about favorite colors and traces Horner through his career.
Set in an imaginary world based on novels by author Terry Goodkind, Legend of the Seeker follows the adventures of Richard Cypher (Horner) as he takes on evil warlords, witches, and armies. Accompanied by an old wizard (Bruce Spence) and a beautiful Mother Confessor (Bridget Regan), Cypher passes from one land to another, rousing the people against evil and doing good like all good fantasy heroes.
It’s pop fun played out on TV but the production values are higher quality than most shows. Backed by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, the guys who created Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess in the 1990s, Legend of the Seeker is probably good for a 5-6 year run as long as it doesn’t get lost in all the intricate fantasy spells and relationships.
Each year Craig Horner goes on a media blitz to promote the show. He must get tired of answering the same questions over and over again. The Xenite interview focuses more on Horner and less on the show, although it provides a load of background information and commentary to help bring fans up to speed on who’s who in New Zealand and Australian fantasy and scifi television. The official Legend of the Seeker Website is http://dadt.com/lots/. Horner doesn’t have his own site, although a directory of fan sites compiled by Xenite.Org lists two Craig Horner fan sites that use his name.