Trivia / Merlin (1998)

• Acting for Two: Miranda Richardson plays both Mab and her sister, the Lady of the Lake.
• Billing Displacement: John Gielgud for his Large Ham less than a minute long performance as King Constant.
• Dawson Casting: Sam Neill, who was 51 when the film was released, played Merlin for about two-thirds of the first half of the film and all of the second half. However, it wasn't until the second half that Merlin would have been around that age in-story. (Because of the time skip necessary for Arthur to grow up.) During the entire first half, he was less than half that age. The reason for this is probably because having Merlin portrayed by an actor of the appropriate age at all times would have left Sam Neill playing Merlin for only one half of the entire film. It helps that Sam Neill looked much younger than he was at the time. He could have passed for about 40 or so.
• Money, Dear Boy: Miranda Richardson's expressed reason for doing the miniseries.

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