When Do Ragnar and Lagertha Kiss Again

On what drew them to the subject matter:

Hirst: In terms of what I wanted to do, I've always had these ii key principles. I is that the show has to pay off at a visceral level, that it has to be exciting, that it has to tell people almost Vikings, that information technology has to take people into the Viking world, that the battles have to be interesting and compelling, that the earth has got to be organic and I want the audience be invested in the pagan gods as much every bit I'm invested in the pagan gods. But secondly, it's a family saga. I mean, it's rooted in human feel. It'due south about a guy who has a wife then a mistress and then a divorce, and then he's had trouble with his boss, and then he'due south the boss. Then he'due south troubled beingness the boss. And that was something that I learned earlier on writing The Tudors because Outset said, "Await, no one in America is really interested in Henry Eight. No one is really interested in watching shows virtually men in tights unless y'all tin can persuade the audience that the issues you're dealing with are eternal and nevertheless feasible and applicative."

Fimmel: There'd been no show about Vikings that had been done really well, and Michael Hirst is mainly what attracted me to information technology, and I put myself on record and sent information technology over there, and they were dumb enough to rent me.

On the historical aspects of the testify:

Hirst: The Vikings have had a bad press considering they didn't write near themselves. They were written near by their enemies and by Christian monks who had a vested interest in dissing their gods and their behavior. Non to say they weren't violent. It was a violent age. The Vikings' gods were applied, but besides mysterious and wonderful. And that was a large challenge for me considering I'thousand not interested in fantasy. I don't like fantasy. For me, fantasy is ultimately meaningless. I don't hateful it can't be entertaining. Of form information technology can be really entertaining, only it doesn't really mean anything.

On the freedoms that the fairly limited Viking historiography provides:

Hirst: It's been nice to take a bit more freedom, but I'm not really inventing history. Everything starts with something that I've read or researched. I then have to — because it'due south a drama, I then have to brand drama out of the facts I know. Only I'll e'er come back at the end to something that I know happened or information technology's supposed to have happened. And so information technology is — I'm glad to say information technology's rooted in historical realities or what nosotros think are historical realities. Merely nevertheless, ultimately it'due south not a documentary. It's a drama, you know.

Fimmel: You know, I adopt to stay in the dark and see what happens. Michael'southward the captain of the ship and he's a brilliant man, so I expect forwards to reading the scripts.

On comparisons with Game of Thrones:

Hirst: Game of Thrones is a very, very different show. Information technology is a fantasy show, and it has a lot of things which are very highly-seasoned to an audition. It is soft porn, and it has a lot of gratuitous stuff in information technology, but it'south still very well-written and I don't — you know, I don't lookout it considering I don't always want to be accused of being influenced past it. But I know that millions of people lookout man information technology and information technology'due south very popular, and the Tv set world is big plenty to have lots of shows in it, and Game of Thrones is non the but other show that'south really, really good. And I take no problem with that.

On the nature of Ragnar Lothbrok:

Fimmel: The characters of Rollo [Ragnar'southward brother] and Floki [Ragnar's best friend] were already taken — I thought they were the more interesting characters, a lot more flawed and all that. Simply Michael knew sort of what I wanted, and I just wanted to make sure that Ragnar had a lot of flaws, and Michael was very available to that idea. I wanted an anti-hero more than a hero. I love that for Ragnar, it's not nigh the treasure and all that stuff, it's about helping out his people. He wants to do it his way for certain, he's really at that place to just help out his people and hit a few people in the caput with an axe along the way.

Hirst: Ragnar'southward issues, his problems with his wife, his problems with his children, his love of his children, everything that he does is relatable. People don't tend to go hundreds of miles in an open boat these days, only his marvel for other places is universal, his difficulties with his marriage are universal. All those things I think make him human. In my very starting time outline of the show, Ragnar ldies at the end of Season 1. I was trying to interest people in the testify. It was going to be very dramatic. Here's the lead character and he dies and all that. And then his sons get on. Just then you realize that in fact, this is the great thing about TV drama equally opposed to movies, that the audition get invested, and y'all have groovy characters. And you can't simply write them off. You desire to observe out about them. Casting Travis was, well, partly lucky, just partly a cracking, peachy decision. And once Travis was up and running, and he was the most unlikely Viking leader always. He was and so deep and counterintuitive and thoughtful and not shouty and big and hairy. Nosotros wanted to spend more time with him, the audition wanted to spend more time with him.

On the show's action sequences:

Hirst: Our actors really fight and they drain and they get bruised and they become sailing and they're horse riding. They do all the physical stuff that they don't practise on a lot of other shows.

Fimmel: I ever enjoy doing that stuff, I oasis't been banged upwards. I'd rather do that than think a page of lines. Nosotros're always fighting in beautiful locations. The crews at that place are so talented and efficient, and e'er exercise an astonishing task of getting the most out of the budget we accept. It'south a stunning country to work in.

On the differences betwixt the start and 2d seasons:

Hirst: Then you lot start the second flavor with more conviction, but also with higher expectations both of yourself and of the cast and of the testify because y'all've established these characters. Then yous want to take them into new places and different places. And you want them to grow. You want the characters to abound. You desire the bear witness to grow. It has to in some obvious senses be bigger and better. Merely the first season nosotros could only afford to build two seaworthy boats because these things are pretty expensive. Only this season, Season 2, we had 8 boats, and we had a couple of thousand extras or any information technology was. Then we were more ambitious about the storytelling, or at least about the wait of information technology and opening it upwards and things.

On the testify's striking "Claret Eagle" sequence:

Hirst: Blood eagling was something they did in extraordinary circumstances unremarkably reserved for very special victims. I wanted to show it, but I didn't want information technology to exist gratuitous. I don't recollect — we don't have gratuitous sex in Vikings. I think a lot of shows now are basically soft porn shows. And we don't have gratuitous violence. Nosotros have a lot of violence, but I like to retrieve that we don't show very much, you lot know, ripped throats and spurting blood. We have choreographed violence which in many ways is worse because what I like to do is to make people experience what it would be like to be inside a shield wall or be faced past such farthermost worries and things.

On what to wait [from last nighttime's] finale:

Hirst: I would say expect the unexpected, that all the fashion down the line perhaps what you think is true isn't true. It's truthful I think that Ragnar'south ascent has been relatively comfortable. And I'one thousand non surprised that some people around him are beginning to question it or beginning to — I totally understand Floki's position, that everything has been for Ragnar and anybody has been Squad Ragnar, and it doesn't necessarily work in the long term and people accept their own agendas and their own interests. And so in that location's a lot of — I think that's what makes this last episode interesting is how far these people are alienated and are willing to cross Ragnar and not totally believe in his myth.

Fimmel: A lot of unexpected stuff happens in Episode 10. I haven't really seen it, but the few people I've spoke with who have seen it are actually happy with it and say it'south a great finale. And like any fan of the show, I'm looking forward to it. And you know, you're non in every scene, then fifty-fifty though you get the script, yous don't know exactly what the other actors are doing, how they're playing, and so I'm looking forrad to watching information technology.

On what the future holds for the show:

Hirst: In Season 3, I think we accept to upward the game over again, and Season 3 volition certainly feature a very famous result which was their commencement Viking attack on Paris that Ragnar led. Information technology's the almost boggling episode. I've seen woodcuts. I mean, they're later woodcuts of the siege. And there are hundreds of ladders that the Vikings are trying to go into the metropolis. And all this is recorded actually. I've just been reading the history of it. And then again, nosotros're moving from we had two ships Season 1, we had 8 ships Season 2, nosotros've got over 100 ships in Season 3. And we're going to assault Paris. Then it'south fantastic. I thought that it was reasonably clever to focus on a central character who had lots of sons. So, I therefore hoped that if things worked, that nosotros could practice Ragnar and then we could do the sons because i of the sons, for example, Bjorn, sails around the Mediterranean. I mean, they attack what they remember is Rome. They go to Spain. They do extraordinary things. I was always optimistic that we could go forward. But on the other mitt, you never know.

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This interview is actually really, really good. If y'all love this show or Travis you've gotta read it. Simply nosotros need to talk about final night'due south finale!!! It was astonishing, just I'one thousand so pitiful it'due south over already.

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