Eoin Macken, Alexander Vlahos, Rupert Young - MCM Expo 2013.

So I don't think anyone has upload this yet. I'm uploading the video on youtube now, so I'll update this post when it's ready, and I've transcirbed everything I could make out. Sorry for the appalling quality, though it's the best I could do. I caught about half of it. Enjoy!

[The question was something along the lines of "Do you sleep with your teddy bears?" to which Eoin first replied with "That is a very dirty question"]

Rupert: (I think here he said that he doesn't sleep with his bear) but somewhere along the side it's looking over at me

Eoin: It watches you

Rupert: But I don't hold it - well, not when anyone's looking anyway. And not without the (??) though

Alex: I have a very old Winnie the Pooh but again it's not in my bed, it's in a cupboard somewhere. I was the oldest (???)

Eoin: Sorry, keep talking about your bear, go on.

Alex: Go on you next, Eoin

Eoin: I never had a teddy bear. I wasn't allowed one.

Alex: That's why you've turned out how you are now. You weren't loved as a child!

Eoin: I lived in a manly house! We didn't have teddy bears, y'know? They gave me pieces of wood and a stone.

Host Guy: You do know you've just opened yourself up to teddy bears for life now? [cheering] The fact that they're cheering means it'll happen!

Eoin: It's alright, I love teddy bears now.

Host: We have a question from a young man here.

QUESTION: "Hiya, this is for Eoin Macken, in the series - I didn't really get it - did Gwain know that Merlin was a sorcerer? Or did he not know? It's a bit murky in places whether he knew or not."

Eoin: Sorry, I didn't hear the last part.

["Did Gwain know that Merlin was a sorcerer?"]

Eoin: Ehh, no, he just thought Merlin was a bit weird. To be honest I -- It's a weird one because when you know as an actor, I mean; obviously you do know he's a sorcerer, because everyone else knows. Eh, I just decided that he didn't know because he just doesn't pay attention to anything else he just thought Merlin was a little bit odd. And that was basically -- that was the only explanation really, because, he is a very strange little boy. So if he was a magician, basically he's a little bit touched. So thankfully he was a magician so that's fine.

Host: I have a question here from a young lady.

QUESTION: Hi, this is for Rupert; your character is the only one left alive when it finished. What do you like to think Leon did then? ((Sorry about moving the camera!))

Rupert: Ummm, what would I like to think? Well yeah, he's very close to the throne, and I think a lot of people are saying that it was gunna end with Gwen actually turning to me and kissing me full on the mouth, and ehh, but they cut that. But yeah, I'd like to arrogantly think that I took over and completely messed up Camelot, so that was why Season 6 was cut off. Within a month the whole place fell apart.

Eoin: Basically a big party.

Rupert: Yeah, a big party, y'know,

Eoin: Sir Leon always had a thing with Gwenivere, though didn't he?

Rupert: Well we might've been brought up at the same time, like grew up together

Eoin: yeah, like were baby sat together and stuff

Rupert: Yeah and in their scenes together, it's just, it made a lot more sense, Leon and Gwen, I mean there are some first folio editions of Arthurian legend where Leon isn't a made up character and actually ends up with Gwen. He forgives her for going off with Lancelot. Anyway... Does that answer the question? Oh, how do you feel it went? Oh but you can tell me that later, you can tell me how it ended.

Host: Now we have a question from this gentleman here.

QUESTION: This is for all of you, what were your favourite scenes?

Eoin: I'll tell you my favourite scene! My favourite scene was in series four, episode 8, the Lamia, and me and Rupert had to do this fight scene, and we basically hated each other that day, because he was annoying the crap outta me. And I was annoying the crap outta him. And it was a lot of fun because we tried beating the living hell out of each other. And t--

[Eoin cut off by the announcer asking for someone]

Alex: God!

Eoin: That was -- clearly my story was crap, so next question.

Rupert: It's like when the music starts at the Oscars. Like OK, lets wrap this up!

Alex: Let's um, move along!

Rupert: But no, it was quite a funny day because we literally hated each other and then the fight co-ordinator was like 'right gbuys, calm down! Calm down!' and we were trying to be arrogant and think it would make us better actors by going, 'no lets not make up, let's just -- get really angry with each other!'

Eoin: And then we hugged.

Rupert: It was a beautiful thing. I was like the teddy bear he never had.

Eoin: Well it was basically your fault in the first place why the scene was going crap.

Rupert: Yep.

Eoin: And then that's what happened because he was being a twat about it and then he took it out on me. Y'know?

Host: And we have a question from the young gentleman here?

QUESTION: 'Uh, this is for all of you, um, what was your favourite line in all of Merlin?'

Eoin: MERLIN!

Alex: Um, mine was 'Everything you do' -- 'Everything I do you think the worst' (I didn't catch what he said after)

Rupert: (?? sorry, I think it was something sarcastic about how little lines he had) (to Eoin) what's your favourite line?

Eoin: Um, (whispering something to Rupert)

Rupert: Oh! Okay, (??) I only used to say one thing which was like, 'Someone's attacking, Sire', or something else 'Sire'... But I didn't -- favourite line? I don't know.

Eoin: My favourite line was about nobility and all that kind of stuff.

Rupert: Mine was 'Long live the Queen' at the end of the show, yeah, 'Long live the Queen', there we go.

Host: And we have a question from the young lady here?

QUESTION: 'This is for all of you, if you could time travel, would you go back to Medieval times and (?) --'

Eoin: Dude, come on! If you could time travel you're hardly going to go back to Camelot, are you? I mean come on!

Rupert: We've done it, we've done it!

Eoin: You're gunna go find dinosaurs and shit, really, aren't you?

['Yeah, but everyone knows about them']

Eoin: What?

['Everyone knows the dinosaurs were there, so y'know']

Eoin: Oh, all right, let’s not row about dinosaurs, I mean -- So if we could time travel, which season would we go back to?

['Yeah']

Rupert: I would ---

Eoin: That's a very good question. Ehh... Season... Can't say Season 1, because none of us are in it. That would be the crapest time travelling ever - you'd go back and you wouldn't exist. So it'd have to be Season 5 otherwise Alex wouldn't be here. I'd time travel back to episode 1, Season 5, because then Alex was nice before we defected him and he became all weird and (?)moody(?) and stuff.

Rupert: I hope everyone's seen it, otherwise spoiler alert.

(?) Alex (?): Thanks.

Host: And next question down at the front --

Rupert: I want this question here - the one with the Lorax T-shirt.

Host: Lorax.

Rupert: I hope she has a question and isn't just putting her hands in the air.

Eoin: The little girl?

Rupert: Yeah.

(?) Host (?): Does she have a question?

Eoin: Oh no, she's just touching her hair.

Rupert: Oh no, she has a question. I'm excited.

Host: She does --

(?) Host (?): Who are you? What's your question?

['...?']

Rupert: Sorry? Apple?

(?) Eoin (?): It's something similar, yeah.

Host: Okay, I think oh, what's your name?

['(?)Tegan.(?)']

Rupert: Awww.

Host: Kegan? Tegan? So what question would you like to ask, Tegan?

['Mumbling']

Eoin: Cat?

Host: She's going to ask Alex -- she wants to ask Alex, whose your favourite out of Merlin or --- or Privates?

Alex: Oh! You mean the two shows?

Host: Yeah.

Alex: Oh... Um, I'd go with... Um Merlin was my favourite, because I had a horrible time filming Privates - um, it was just Northern Ireland and rain and cold. Better to be in Wales and in rain and cold. Um, Merlin. Good answer-- Good question.

Host: Right, we have a question from this young lady here?

QUESTION: 'This is a question for Alex; are the rumors about you auditioning for the Doctor true?'

Eoin: Ooooh

Alex: No.

Rupert: But I -- no.

Alex: But I'd love to! I've said this before. When Matt steps down, I'll be there. Even if they don't want me! Stephen let me --

Host: It's 3 o'clock in the morning, Stephen Moffat opens his door 'Hello.'

Alex: Me? Remember me?

Host: Right, right down the front. If this isn't good, you're banned from every other event ever. I'm only kidding. I'm only kidding you.

Eoin: He's not.

['Okay, who's your favourite - Henry or Hetty Hoover?']

Eoin: What?

Rupert: Ban her - kick her out!

Alex: Ban her - get rid of her! That was a terrible question. Next.

Rupert: Oh your favourite, as in out of Henry or Hetty?

Alex: Henry or Hetty?

['Yeah']

Alex: Henry.

Rupert: Well I've got a Henry, but I haven't got a Hetty, so I'm going to have to choose Henry or my -- it might not actually work.

Eoin: What're you talking about?

Rupert: That's him. He's so rich that he doesn't know what a Hoover is. There is a Hoover, you have that on your cheek*? (?)

['Yeah, I have it on my cheek!']

Rupert: Yeah, Hoovers that look like that - or vacuum cleaners.

Eoin: I'm not going to say what I think is on your cheek.

Host: Right lets go to someone in a rather fetching Merlin cape, or it's a knight's cape actually, and chain mail. What's your question?

['Um, hi guys, if you could have tea with any fiction character, who would it be?']

Rupert: I wish we --

Eoin: BATMAN. Batman. Batman. It has to be Batman all the time. Batman. Definitely Batman. Who’d you have?

Alex: I'd-

Eoin: Or a Warrior Princess -- that'd be quite good.

Rupert: Um... Cat Woman?

Alex: Uh... Dorian Grey. (??)Not sure what he says next (??)

Rupert: (?) He's available (?)

Eoin: Would you like to plug your show at the same time? Let's go.

Alex: Now's the opportunity to do it.

Rupert: Eoin hates plugging anything. Anyone on Twitter'll know that he just hates selling anything.

Eoin: Yeah, yeah.

Host: Right next question from this young lady here.

['Hello.']

Rupert: Hi!

['So, um, would you say, that, since you guys joined the Merlin crew and everything, you have all become really cool friends and just really -- even though you go off to different places -- you all stay together and--']

Rupert: In Eoin's heart.

Eoin: To be honest with you, we all actualy hate each other. But we think it's good to put up a facade that we all get on. Em, sorry, no, em, do you think - so are you asking will we still be friends? Are we still friends? Well, we kinda, we kinda have cups of tea and play board games and stuff.

Rupert: Yeah.

Eoin: I'd like to do that forever.

Rupert: It takes a while, I have to say, like we were on the train yesterday, and it was quite awkward and quite a long time. No, we are quite lucky - it's always a cliche. I'd love to see a cast go 'y'know I really hated those people', um, but the fact we're all doing this together, we kinda wouldn't really want to do it on our own. But Eoin obviously did it on his own in Telford, but you'll have -- 'WOO! Telford!' Um, yeah no, we're very lucky that we get on, it's genuinly a pleasure to meet all of you with other people on my... flank. Yeah, that makes it sound like I'm the most important.

Alex: I conquer.

Rupert: And, we meet up a lot, we meet up a lot--

Eoin: It's actually true - most actors are not nice people, they're complete pains in the arses, but on Merlin, all the cast are actually really, really nice --

Rupert: And luckily, Eoin had a couple of years to learn from everyone, and now we're all close.

A FEW MINUTES LATER.

['A question about Lancelot, and working with Santiago Cabrera']

Eoin: I'd love to see you again (??)

Alex: I never got to work with Santiago

EOIN: And that's why you're still secure with yourself, Alex.

Host: Another question here from this young man....

QUESTION: 'Um, this one's for Alex, um, my friend thinks you have a very nice smile, and I just wanna know whether he has a chance or not'

Alex: W-Wait, what? Wa-Wait.

['He says you have a very nice smile, I just want to know if he has a chance or not']

Eoin: A chance of what?

Alex: That's what I wanna know.

Eoin: You're gunna have to clarify that.

['Just a date or something like that.']

Eoin: C'mon, c'mon now don't be shy! What is it he want? C'mon, let's go, let's go.

['I dunno, Nandos or something?']

Rupert (?): He's not...???...

Eoin: But is he gunna pay for the date, the dinner at Nanods?

Host: is he gunna pay?

['Sure, yeah, yeah!']

Eoin: Well you're gunna get a free Nandos.

Alex: Well - Well my girlfriend will have to fight him off - I think.

['She can be there!']

Host: What sort of a date is this?

Eoin: Would he pay for her Nandos as well?

['Hmm...Yeah, sure, yeah']

Eoin: Hm. That's not bad! It's like a free dinner, Alex. Very liberal too, I'll do it, it's fine, y'know.

Alex: He doesn't want you, Eoin.

Eoin: Okay don't rub it in Alex, it's fine, it's fine. Free Nandos.

Alex: I don't quite know how to answer that, that's my answer.

Host: Right okay! Let's have a question from you over here.

['Um, this is another question to all of you -']

Eoin: Oh great, another one.

['Well, can I have a hug?']

Rupert: If we came down here now, we'd be killed. But maybe - um, I'm speaking for everyone here --

Eoin: He's not speaking on my behalf -- I'd love to give you a hug!

Host: Can I just point out before we do this - this is the only person that is gunna do this otherwise there'll be a queue a mile long.

Eoin: So maybe she can...?

Host: You can come back when we've finished - come back and we'll sort something out. Thank you, other wise we'll have a queue.

Rupert (?): What's your name? So we know?

Host: We'll sort something out back stage - yes it's Jane. I'll remember you. We'll sort something out backstage, don't worry about it. (Muttering about questions).

QUESTION: 'Hello, when you were younger, did you want to be actors? Or something else?'

Eoin: I wanted to be David Attneborough. No, no, no, no, - I'm actually deadly serious. I wanted - I studied science and zooloy and I wanted to go odd and study lions and tigres and stuff.

Alex: I wanted to be a wrestler. And that failed miserably. Look at me!

Rupert: I think I've wanted to be an actor - it's ever since I've been a donkey age 4 and I realised it was my true calling, to not say anything and (?). I knew I'd always be in the backs of shots not saying much - and I was a natural, so. Thank God - Imagine if I wasn't - what a terrible world this would be. Not quite enough.

Note: After this, there was only one more question, and it doesn't stick out in my memory. Though I remember at the beginning, somehow the subject of costumes and cosplay came up, and Eoin said something along the lines of 'It's brilliant! Everyone's so colourful and imaginitive - it's like Disney World, only more... Skittles and crazy.' He also spotted a Gandalf and Frodo cosplay, which he exclaimed quite excitedly to.

Also, someone asked about their first day of filming, and Alex said about wadining around in a quarry full of fake snow, something he was surprised about, I think Rupert made a slightly sarcastic comment about one-liners and being at the back of the shot, and I think Eoin's exact words were 'I was half naked in a bed with Colin Morgan.' To which he then decided to explain that he wasn't with Colin /in/ the bed. Just that 'Colin was watching him'.)

Sorry it's so shaky and just generally terrible quality. I'd have filmed it all on my camera, though I didn't charge it the night before, and the memory was nearly full. I was sitting in the middle-ish area, and I couldn't really get a good angle, as I'm sure is very evident in the video. Anyways. I hope you enjoyed it!

#gutted i missed this oh my gOD #eoin is going to be all alone at wales too rupert #come with him #do et #pls #fave #birmingham mcm #eoin macken #rupert young #alex vlahos