"Stop pretending, Moiraine. I think you’re afraid. You don’t want me to know how weak you feel. How unprepared. Overwhelmed. Because then you’ll have to face it yourself."
MOIRAINE SEDAI and LAN MANDRAGORAN in WHEEL OF TIME 2.08
no one is as obsessed with the Lan & Moiraine of it all as Daniel Henney and Rosamund Pike are and I love that for them
this woman is so knee deep into the 3,000 word one shot fluff fic she’s writing where Lan and Moiraine retire into the countryside and adopt a magical dog together she’s forgotten it’s not canon- it’s “when Lan and Moiraine get a dog” not “if”- what a joy I love them both so much
Stop pretending, Moiraine. I think you're afraid. You don't want me to know how weak you feel. How unprepared. Overwhelmed.Because then you'll have to face it yourself. You can't hurt me anymore, Moiraine. It took me a long time to accept what you said, about us not being equals, but I understand it now. And I believe in what you do, even now, when I know not half of it. The only reason that I was able to say that you're not my equal is that I've known one thing to be true since the first day we met. You have always been my better. Let me back in.
Every time I read Daniel Henney talking about WoT I get teary and euphoric. This guy is so so so so into WoT and being Lan, and getting to play a high fantasy character like Lan that it gives me fuckin chills.
What was the top reason for you? Was it something about the character? Was it something about the genre? What were you most drawn to?
HENNEY: First of all, growing up in the States in a very small town, being Asian-American, I grew up watching fantasy shows with certain people cast in certain roles. I just never thought that, as I got older and got into acting, I’d have the chance to play something like Lan, to play a king, or an uncrowned king, to speak in an English accent, to protect someone as amazing as Rosamund, and to have this incredible role of strength and honor and loyalty, with an amazing backstory. I didn’t know that it was ever gonna be possible for me to be in a role like this, so when it came true, it was very surreal. A funny story is that I do this vision boarding thing for my career, and I’d saved the cover to The Eye of the World on my phone in 2011. I didn’t know much about The Wheel of Time, but I just loved the look of the cover and the characters, and I thought that was something that I would love to do one day. And here I am 10 years later, playing Lan.