October 2007

So, Lucy, your character is just called Marian?

Yes.

Not Maid Marian. Is that significant?

Um, it’s significant because it’s one of the things which has been done to make sure that the program has more of a modern feel as opposed to, oh, it’s the same old—we’ve seen this, been there, done that. She’s not that kind of character, anyway. She’s quite feisty and self-assured and independent.

Is she getting involved in any of the action herself, kind of fight along?

Yes, she does. She’s been trained by her dad to be able to fight if the situation arises where she needs to. And there are, there are sort of a few episodes where she gets a bit of the action and, or I do.

So Marian gets to kick a little bit of backside?

Yeah, she does. A little bit of bottom.

What’s your relationship, um, like between your Marian and the new Robin?

When he comes back, she is not, yeah, kind of, “Yeah, come into my arms and we’ll be boyfriend and girlfriend and live happily ever after.” She’s very annoyed that he left her for that long, you know, you can’t send letters from the Holy Land, you know, you can’t, you’re at war, you can’t really get in contact. And, um, and so she’s kind of having none of his charming, “Oh, yes, I’m back, darling, you’re looking great.” ‘Cause she’s grown up how, I mean, sort of five or six years, and those are the years which, sort of, young girls really, kind of, blossom in. So he’s, yeah, so he’s like, “Yeah, alright, I’ll have some,” and, you know, she, she’s not interested. Well, she appears to not be interested, anyway, with the first few episodes ‘cause he’s wronged her. He’s gone off and left her.