It'skind of like "Oh, that's bizarre." So, nothing's fixed. And sometimesit would take a week of setting these things up, including adding pagesinto the script and stuff like that.MR: You're joking!MR: Well, the interesting thing is, Allen, that probably the more you delveinto this that there is a tradition, and I only found this out after Ihad done the show, that the Crusaders, particularly the Templars, cameback from the Crusades with a lot of Arabic influences. Yes, we started filming in February and we finished sometimein September. I mean there is so much. I believeprobably people took the mantle of Robin Hood because they were highwaymen,robbers living on what was called Watling Street or the Great North Roadwhich runs up the spine of Britain from London to York. About a week before they decidedto start filming, Esta Charkham, the casting lady, rang up my agent andsaid "Look, Ian has just told me that Mark's playing this part.
Unfortunately one of the things that we removed from his room whichwe couldn't really hide very well was a large bed, which we pushed intothe car park.
I mean we used to havemud ball fights and cream bun fights.MR: Oh god, in the legend or in the show?MR: Indeed.
We have all got a bit of RobinHood in us. ]She would be the Greenwoman in the tarot deck. But eventually people who are into tarot find a packthat accurately represents them. We ended up payingfor that. It's that important.MR: I was born in Doncaster. It was the one where we were being impersonatedby a band that look exactly like us. Thisdoesn't make any sense." He also voiced Bumblebee in Transformers. Mark Ryan (born 7 June 1956) is an English actor, author, action director and voice actor. And Terry Walsh [stunt co-ordinator] andMichael Praed [who played Robin Hood], God love him to his ever-lastingcredit, went round the back of the tents where everyone was having theirlunch and we worked out these routines. This is never beendone before.
We talked to JohnMatthews [writer of many, many book and designer of tarot decks] aboutthis.
Not for killing a deer, but for stealing firewood.
We suggestedto Paul Knight that Clannad should do the music for the show. That's howClannad got the gig, because everyone was listening to "Harry's Game" inmy car. Mark Ryan's Height 5ft 9 (175.3 cm) British actor best known for roles in tv series like Robin of Sherwood and Black Sails. Somebody must have done thisbefore. Because I think sometimes it can muddy the waterif you read for somebody and you know too much about them. We've talked about this for six years, aboutdoing something else. And he wrote for us. In fact, in the Major Oak itself.There is a tree called the Major Oak in Sherwood Forest which they reckonis about 1200 years old. What you do is get a snapshot of reality,psychologically and physically at the moment you do the reading. We were all made tospend hours chucking arrows about. I would obviously have preferred to make the script Kip originally wrote into a film but that was sadly never going to happen. MR: It was just very much a part of the local history, For example, there isa place outside of Scarborough called Robin Hood's Bay. It was when AnthonyHorowitz came on. None of these things are a fixed points.
And Anthony turned into a very, very good writer -- infact, one of the most famous TV writers we've got in Britain right now.But it was complex show to get hold of, and what he wrote which just wasimprobable regarding what was happening within the Merry Men. And that's part of myfool type things.
That's why I emphasize the whole thing about going on themeditation.MR: I think the legend is an archetypal legend. And unfortunately, DC [Comics, publisher of Green Arrow,Superman, Batman and other heroes] really messed us about on that. [A hit song by the Irish band Clannad.
So, you're going to know these people and I'm willing tolisten to anything you've got to say about it. Because it's so obvious it must have been done before.MR: Yes, I don't believe in predicting the future. So all these things are still withit. "MR: I think the show itself has touched on so many different complex areas.But I'll bring up two. Can you go away and do a bitof work? I meanyou can go from there where you want. The money was kept in York.