SEASON OF THE WITCH - Ascot Elite Entertainment Group

He goes from place to place selling religious relics and the like. He’s basically an opportunist.
Anything he can get, he’ll take. We never purposely set out to make him funny, but I found the
bits of humor within him. He doesn’t really want to go along with them, because even though
he’s not a religious man, the Girl frightens him.
“It’s a classic kind of old, epic tale about a group of people who go on a journey, and find
out something about themselves,” the actor says. “It has great action sequences and all the
drama of an old biblical tale.”
Danish actor Ulrich Thomsen plays Eckhart, a grieving knight who has lost his own
family to the plague. “He’s lost everything, and yet he doesn’t look at the Girl as just an easy
answer,” says Roven. “He actually has a bit of sympathy for her. Like Behmen, he wants to
make sure they’re doing the right thing. I don’t think he believes that she is a witch. He sees this
pure innocent child and he starts to doubt the whole thing.”
The film’s epic nature appealed to Thomsen. “I liked the story and the history,” he says.
“In Denmark, we never do things like this. Our budgets tend to be much smaller and we make
movies about families sitting around the dinner table. We all have a child inside who wants to
play soldiers and knights, so this was so much fun for me to do.
“I am a fan of Dominic Sena’s work, as well as Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman,” he
adds. “It was an amazing opportunity for me to do something different.”
Shortly after the start of their journey, the group reluctantly accepts one more member,
an altar boy named Kay who is eager to prove his worth as a man. “Kay’s real aim is to become
a knight,” says actor Robert Sheehan. “So he catches up with the party and volunteers his
services, hoping to impress.”
Sheehan captures the youthful idealism of the character, as well as the steely
determination Kay discovers within himself during the ordeal. “We hit the bull’s-eye with
Robbie,” says Gartner. “He has a boyish quality, yet he’s tough enough to stand toe-to-toe with
Ron Perlman in a swordfight. He infuses Kay with great earnestness, conviction and courage,
and creates a character we believe can take on the responsibilities handed over to him by
Behmen.”