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REIGN Scoop: Megan Follows, Craig Parker and Laurie McCarthy Interviews

REIGN’s third season will offer three queens: Mary, Queen of Scots (Adelaide Kane), Catherine de Medici (Megan Follows) and Queen Elizabeth (Rachel Skarsten). It will be like a high stakes game of chess with one too many queens on the board. So just who will be the queen knocked off? That is exactly what Catherine and Elizabeth are scheming to do — take Mary right out of the game. But even with such a vicious game afoot, there will still be plenty of romance to distract the players and perhaps tip the scales to one side or the other as a result. But will Catherine be distracted by love? Will Elizabeth allow a mere king interfere with her plans for domination? Will Mary continue to be able to keep both her kingdoms safe and intact?

At the recent CBS Summer Soiree event, stars Megan Follows and Craig Parker and executive producer Laurie McCarthy talked about what Season 3 holds in store for Queen Catherine, Narcisse (Craig Parker) and the woman between them: Lola (Anna Popplewell).

Megan Follows & Craig Parker

Laurie McCarthy mentioned that Catherine and Narcisse are not quite over yet.
MEGAN: I hope not!
CRAIG: She said we’ll be together again.

Isn’t that lovely and dangerous?
CRAIG: I live for it.

It’s the only time that we seem to see Narcisse squirming inside his skin, any time he is around her, as he is not sure whether he is going to live to see the next moment.
MEGAN: But you see, he likes that. It keeps him honest.
CRAIG: Initially, I think they were destined to hook-up right away — and I slightly regret that — they never actually got to be happy together.

I think there was a moment towards the end of these season, maybe just a moment, where they were happy.
MEGAN: A moment.
CRAIG: Maybe, yes, one beat where it was like, “This is nice.”

But then it went to pieces because nobody gets to be happy for long.
CRAIG: Yeah. That’s true.

Megan Follows

So Catherine goes to her mortal enemy Elizabeth at the end of Season 2. That was a pretty big play.
MEGAN: I know. It was fun. I think Mary finally crossed a line and was unforgivable.

That is like the darkest place I can imagine Catherine going — to go to somebody like Queen Elizabeth and saying, “I need you to help me with my situation in France.”
MEGAN: Yes, well, she’s desperate. She’s been exiled. But she’s a game-changer.

But she chose Elizabeth opposed to Louis (Sean Teale), who got away, and Louis at least is a Frenchman. Maybe that might have been a safer alliance. To go to Elizabeth, how did she know that Elizabeth would have just taken her head off?
MEGAN: That’s true. But Elizabeth is very smart and she is thinking about alliances on a world stage. I think Catherine would have been a brilliant chess player.

We now know that there are three queens in play: Catherine, Mary and Elizabeth. It is the greatest game of chess you could ever imagine for Season 3. Are you looking forward to all that?
MEGAN: Absolutely. It’s good. Rachel is a wonderful addition to our show. I don’t truly know where we’re going to be going and what we are going to be doing. But it will be a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to finding out.

Would you like to see Catherine more in exile, or would you like to see her back in France right away?
MEGAN: I’d like to see Catherine doing interesting things. If that’s in exile, I’m fine with that. If that’s back in the castle, I’m good with that. I like to be busy.

It sounds like it. They are going to be intro ducting the whole English Court.
MEGAN: Yeah, that’s a huge thing.

As announced, REIGN is now going to be on Friday nights, which means the show can be a little bit more risqué, which could be a lot of fun. Is there any kind of risqué stuff you’d like to see?
MEGAN: That’s good. What I love is that you saw Catherine briefly having a relationship and being intimate with somebody and that is a big part of our world, so I think it’s good to see that.

At least she didn’t kill this lover [Narcisse] and we know she has a habit of killing her lovers.
MEGAN: I know! She has done that in the past. But she did not do that this time because that’s how good he is.

We kind of wonder if perhaps she has fallen in love.
MEGAN: I think she did.

That’s a vulnerable place for her to be.
MEGAN: It is and I think it’s a terribly lonely what she is up against. She has been so by herself. I do think she fell in love with him.

If it came down to it, do you think it would be the matters of the heart or the matters of head that is going to rule her?
MEGAN: I don’t know. That’s a great question. I think those two things will be in battle. That would be really fun.

It seems like she has gotten to a point in life where she appreciates love and what it feels like and what it means to have that and that’s why she hasn’t killed Narcisse yet.
MEGAN: I think so. Let’s be honest: she could have. Many, many times.

I’m surprised she didn’t take out Lola right away too as her rival.
MEGAN: I know! I’m sure if I were Lola, I’d be little nervous around Catherine right now. But there is the fact that she is the mother of Catherine’s grandson. (Laughs) It would be hard to talk about at the Christmas party if you killed your grandson’s mom. That wouldn’t go over too well.

Craig Parker

What did you love about Season 2 since the new characters were introduced in such a big way.
CRAIG: I came into the show having never seen it before and I didn’t know what to expect. So I was catching up furiously on the plane, and the very first day the whole cast was there and they were delightful and funny and there were no divas. It was just immediate joy and welcoming atmosphere. They keep us in the dark about what is going to happen, so every episode it was like: “I’m doing this week.” I never knew what to expect.

Narcisse became such a vital character, developing and developing as each episode went along.
CRAIG: I loved it. It is so wonderful. I cannot emphasize enough how lovely the cast and crew are. It is playtime for us. The show is a drama, obviously, but it is such a joy to play up there — even in winter when it is freezing cold. I had a very happy nine months in Toronto where we shoot it.

Maybe you can comment on Narcisse and Lola as that turned out to be a fan-favorite relationship.
CRAIG: The lovely Anna Popplewell, who is just a dream to work with. I was torn because I love Megan Follows so much, and right at the beginning we were sort of paired for each other, so I was all set for that. Then this Lola-world sort of developed and it’s impossible to not fall in love with Anna Popplewell. She’s just remarkable. So it was a fun dynamic and it now seems that we are now clear to see what happens next season.

Isn’t that fun and tantalizing?
CRAIG: I can’t imagine that Catherine will remain out of the game for too long.

She’s not going to let Narcisse go that quickly.
CRAIG: She’s certain to do something. (Laughs) No, I don’t know anything.

Laurie McCarthy said that Narcisse would get further involved with Catherine next season.
CRAIG: I hope so.

Do you miss getting to work with some of the other male characters as Narcisse is always surrounded by women?
CRAIG: I did a fair amount with Toby [Regbo], which is so much fun, and Sean [Teale] — we started together. We just got to spit at each other in our scenes together. (Laughs) And we had a lot of party scenes and we’re all there for those.

What do you think Narcisse is going to do the next time he gets his hands on Louis, since he has betrayed France?
CRAIG: A big fight. We never got to fight. (Laughs) ‘Cause we’re both useless at fighting. It would have been a challenge.

Fight fight or sword fight?
CRAIG: It would have to be a sword fight. I’ve never punched anyone in my life. I wouldn’t know how to do it. Sword fights are easier. That’s what it’s been all along — a sword fight.

Narcisse was kind of a quasi-villain all season, yet he ended up being the funniest character in nearly every scene he was in. We were never sure if we were supposed to be laughing or very worried about him.
CRAIG: For good reason, Mary killed his son. Plus, he was only blackmailing Francis to make him a better king. He just believes that this is how the world should be run and he needs to teach the children how to do it. Catherine is the villain. She kills people all the time!