Sam Corlett & Leo Suter Interview: Vikings: Valhalla
Sam Corlett stars as Leif Erikson and Leo Suter stars Harald Hardrada in Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla. Taking place 100 years after the original show, the upcoming series follows the end of the Viking Age as internal religious conflict and war with England upend the Viking way of life. Vikings: Valhalla season 1 premieres on Netflix February 25 and with season 2 already filmed, another batch of episodes is already on the way.
Screen Rant sat down with Corlett and Suter to talk all things Vikings: Valhalla, including the show's epic action sequences and how they filmed those bloody confrontations.
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Screen Rant: Sam, you get some pretty epic action sequences throughout the first five episodes that I saw. Did you have a favorite to film?
Sam Corlett: Certainly, the second one in episode one where someone's picking on [Leif] in regards to my father. I think that was probably the most dynamic fight. We really worked closely with the stunt coordinator, Richard Ryan, who notoriously has done Troy and Sherlock Holmes before — it was really cool to work with him. And the stunt team. It was a real trial by fire. So to see the inception of that and to finally be able to express it was a real gift.
You both are playing such prominent historical figures and so Leo, for you, I was wondering, how do you approach doing this? Do you do a lot of research? Or do you let the script guide you?
Leo Suter: There's a balance of the two. I think it's one of the joys of doing historical pieces that you can do some homework and do a few informal history lessons and really learn about a world that you otherwise wouldn't know about. So I really enjoyed finding out the history of these kings, of
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