Interview with Anthony Haigh (Series 2 Team 11)
Posted: 20 Mar 2021, 13:09
As you may have seen on the homepage or elsewhere, last month Paul Flannery interviewed Anthony Haigh, Dungeoneer 11 of Series 2, on his Pirate Moustache Twitch channel.
(I'm not going to link to the channel because a lot of the videos include streams of Knightmare and Crystal Maze episodes, which isn't legal.)
The video seems not to be online now, so here from memory are some of the things revealed by Anthony:
When he took the phonecall offering him a quest, he was told to confirm within the hour. His parents were out at his grandmother's and she didn't have a phone, so he had to cycle over to tell them.
I think Anthony said that he was in Norwich for 10 days, half of which his team spent waiting to be called into the studio.
On arrival at the studio for his quest, Anthony's outfit was deemed unsuitable and he was whisked off to wardrobe. This took an hour. By the time he returned, his advisors had met Hugo & co and everyone was ready to start filming.
For the final scene with Lillith, she was in a different bluescreen void from Anthony. In one of the behind the scenes photos from the pilot, Lillith is in the same void as the dungeoneer. This suggests that there were two different setups for Lillith's room: one for when she had to give or receive an object from the dungeoneer, and one for when she didn't.
Anthony mentioned his teammates Mark and Darren and said that another teammate was "no longer with us". That would be Alan. Although some of the Knightmare cast are known to have died (Guy Standeven, John Woodnutt, Bill Cashmore, Mary Miller), this is the first known report of a Knightmare contestant having passed away. Sad news. Condolences to Alan's family and friends. I wish we still had adviser pictures on the website, not just dungeoneers.
Anthony later designed his own 3D Knightmare board game. After telling Tim Child about it, Anthony and his family were invited to Tim's house. Anthony's game was, Tim said, better than the one he had just signed off on with Milton Bradley. Anthony left his prototype with Tim.
A comment on the interview itself: I wasn't quite sure why Paul kept up his Treguard voice during the interview, since he wasn't interviewing Anthony in character.
(I'm not going to link to the channel because a lot of the videos include streams of Knightmare and Crystal Maze episodes, which isn't legal.)
The video seems not to be online now, so here from memory are some of the things revealed by Anthony:
When he took the phonecall offering him a quest, he was told to confirm within the hour. His parents were out at his grandmother's and she didn't have a phone, so he had to cycle over to tell them.
I think Anthony said that he was in Norwich for 10 days, half of which his team spent waiting to be called into the studio.
On arrival at the studio for his quest, Anthony's outfit was deemed unsuitable and he was whisked off to wardrobe. This took an hour. By the time he returned, his advisors had met Hugo & co and everyone was ready to start filming.
For the final scene with Lillith, she was in a different bluescreen void from Anthony. In one of the behind the scenes photos from the pilot, Lillith is in the same void as the dungeoneer. This suggests that there were two different setups for Lillith's room: one for when she had to give or receive an object from the dungeoneer, and one for when she didn't.
Anthony mentioned his teammates Mark and Darren and said that another teammate was "no longer with us". That would be Alan. Although some of the Knightmare cast are known to have died (Guy Standeven, John Woodnutt, Bill Cashmore, Mary Miller), this is the first known report of a Knightmare contestant having passed away. Sad news. Condolences to Alan's family and friends. I wish we still had adviser pictures on the website, not just dungeoneers.
Anthony later designed his own 3D Knightmare board game. After telling Tim Child about it, Anthony and his family were invited to Tim's house. Anthony's game was, Tim said, better than the one he had just signed off on with Milton Bradley. Anthony left his prototype with Tim.
A comment on the interview itself: I wasn't quite sure why Paul kept up his Treguard voice during the interview, since he wasn't interviewing Anthony in character.