\u201cIt\u2019s what you dream of as a kid,\u201d says Jonas Armstrong of <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span>, \u201cpracticing how to fire bow and arrows, riding horses, doing stunts. Getting to play Robin Hood and the band of outlaws!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Today \u2013 5th October, 2021 \u2013 marks 15 years since the premiere of <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span>. The series, which aired on BBC One from 2006 to 2009, reinvented the legend of Robin Hood for a whole new era: it presented a much younger, more dynamic version than audiences had seen before.<\/span><\/p>\n Lead actors Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood), Lucy Griffiths (Marian) and Keith Allen (the Sheriff of Nottingham), as well as executive producers and co-creators Foz Allan and Dominic Minghella, look back on the series \u2013 explaining how they found their own distinct take on the myth, what it was like to film the show in Hungary, and more.<\/span><\/p> The series began life when <\/span>Doctor Who<\/span> first went into production. \u201cI said to Greg Brenman, then Head of Drama at [production company] Tiger Aspect, if <\/span>Doctor Who<\/span> works they\u2019re going to want more of these family dramas,\u201d remembers Foz Allan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFoz had been into the BBC and said \u2013 there was big excitement around <\/span>Doctor Who<\/span><\/a> on Saturday night \u2013 there should be room in the schedule for another show like it as well. They weren\u2019t hugely interested!\u201d says Dominic Minghella.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut then Peter Fincham joined as controller of BBC One. He had young kids at the time, as did Foz and I, and arrived asking why isn\u2019t there a Robin Hood on Saturday nights? That was where all the creative energy was focused, Saturday night,\u201d continues Minghella. \u201cThey said to him \u2018oh we\u2019ve been talking about that actually\u2019, and quickly called Foz.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI was in the middle of <\/span>Doc Martin<\/span><\/a> when Foz asked if I could do <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span>. It sounded like a great opportunity: it came at a time in my career where I realised I wanted to be a producer as well as a writer,\u201d says Minghella, explaining what drew him to the show. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a burning ambition to retell the tale of Robin Hood, but Foz was somebody who was secure enough in his own production role to be willing to share it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDom was a very experienced writer, I was a very experienced producer, it felt like exactly the right meeting of minds to tell a well-known story in an exciting way,\u201d says Allan.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen it was go, it was really go really quick,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cI\u2019d written one script, as a \u2018here\u2019s how I would do Robin Hood\u2019. Everybody loved that, it was greenlit, and suddenly we were producing 13 episodes on a tight budget. It\u2019s stressful, but the kind of stress you want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At this point, the casting process started \u2013 though not without some initial back-and-forth. \u201cOften we were putting people forward who were over 30 and the BBC came back saying \u2018it\u2019s a show for young people, a lads and dads show, we want fresh young faces\u2019. The average audience of BBC One was about 75 \u2013 \u2018we need to bring it down to 69, can you please put some young people in your show?\u2019\u201d Minghella jokes.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI did a first audition with Dominic, Foz, and Michelle Guish. I liked the scenes, I felt they could suit me,\u201d remembers Lucy Griffiths, who played Marian in the first two series of <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span>. \u201cThat was the first of four auditions I did over two or three months. It was the longest audition process I\u2019ve ever had! I think there was some concern about my age, because I was only 19, but in the end, they trusted me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was a good opportunity to find great people who were new, though. That cast was brilliant,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cSam Troughton, my hero. Jonas, obviously, a proper cheeky chappy. Lovely Lucy, such poise for a 19-year-old. Will Beck, who\u2019s the star of <\/span>Casualty<\/span> now. Harry Lloyd, Gordon Kennedy, Joe Armstrong, who is a class act, we had a fantastic cast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI think Richard Armitage lied and said he was under 30, or maybe we lied, because I desperately wanted him. We had a little bit of a fight [with the BBC], and I\u2019m really happy to have won that battle,\u201d says Minghella, before doing an impression of Armitage in the first episode. \u201cI\u2019ve looked after your land, Locksley. Who do you think you are, Lord of the Dance?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy agent phoned to say you\u2019ve been offered the part of the Sheriff,\u201d recalls Keith Allen. \u201cNo audition, no interview, nothing: you fly out to Budapest in four days. Obviously, the person who had been cast pulled out at the last moment and nobody else was available\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t have time to do any research, there wasn\u2019t time to worry about past comparisons \u2013 it literally was off the plane, onto a horse, be entertaining.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEveryone was hearing about <\/span>Robin Hood,<\/span>\u201d says Jonas Armstrong. \u201cI was keen to get a meeting, maybe for Will Scarlet or Alan-a-Dale. I was 25! When my agent called to say \u2018Jonas, you\u2019ve got an audition for Robin Hood\u2019, I thought okay cracking, who\u2019s it for? My agent said \u201cRobin Hood\u201d \u2013 I laughed and said \u2018no, who\u2019s it for?\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBecause I didn\u2019t think I had a hope in it, I didn\u2019t feel nervous. I wasn\u2019t intimidated. I just went for it \u2013 and the next day, I flew off to India for six weeks to do [2006 series] <\/span>Losing Gemma<\/span> for ITV,\u201d Armstrong added. \u201cThe BBC wanted to fly me back for screen tests, but ITV, understandably, wouldn\u2019t allow me to mess around with their schedule. So that was my only audition \u2013 I was very fortunate I had such a good agent backing me, but the fact it was just the one is crazy when you think about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[When I first auditioned], I was working in a hotel as a waitress,\u201d says Griffiths. \u201cAfter series one, I was invited back to that hotel to be part of an evening celebrating current BBC shows while different companies come down and try to sell their new shows for next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI recognised the convention,\u201d she continues, \u201cand it turned out that I had been working at the hotel the year before when Dominic and Foz had been pitching the show with Tiger Aspect to the BBC. It was the same convention! That was a nice little full circle moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, the Robin Hood tradition dates back to the 1400s \u2013 the myth has been defined and redefined for hundreds of years, from the early ballads to Errol Flynn. How did this team make their version distinct?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d always wanted to do Robin Hood,\u201d Foz Allan says. \u201cThe great thing about legends full stop is that they are completely adaptable to their time. That\u2019s why they remain legends: you bring them back and back because they say something for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cErrol Flynn\u2019s Robin Hood represents the triumph of the individual over the Nazi horde,\u201d Allan suggests. \u201cAn aging Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn, tired and stuck in the woods asking what they\u2019re doing \u2013 that\u2019s America coming out of Vietnam. The 1980s one of my youth [ITV\u2019s Robin of Sherwood] was devoutly and dedicatedly spiritual in the middle of Thatcherism, which was overtly profoundly materialistic. Today, you might do a kind of Brexit-fractured England \u2013 or you might do some plague stories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we had much of a conversation about any of the other ones, though,\u201d says Allan. \u201cWe were very aware that a youth world was arriving, it was properly the end of the old world. We got into the sense of the team \u2013 when you\u2019re young, your friendship group is the most important thing in your life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOur ambition was to move away from men in tights, the slightly silly in a costume [Robin]. Not that we took ourselves too seriously: we wanted it to be more energised, more dynamic, but I always saw it as a comedy,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cI\u2019m not sure other people necessarily did \u2013 people wanted it to be a little bit more serious, a little bit more earnest than I ever did \u2013 but I think when you\u2019ve got Keith Allen as your Sheriff of Nottingham, obviously it\u2019s a comedy!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI thought he should be cruel and occasionally funny,\u201d agrees Allen. \u201cI think what I\u2019m most pleased about regarding Robin Hood is being remembered as a baddy who could make you laugh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI never felt that we needed our political philosophy of taking from the rich to give to the poor,\u201d continues Minghella. \u201cI think if you were doing it now, you might have a really different attitude to the social story that is quintessentially Robin Hood. But I just wanted to have fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Even as they forged their own path, though, Armstrong found the legend difficult to live up to at first. \u201cI had a picture in my head of what Robin Hood looked like: six foot two, muscular, all these images came to my head,\u201d explains Armstrong. \u201cI felt a bit underconfident, because people have an idea of what Robin Hood should look like, or I had anyway. I think I was very self-conscious about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAt the table read, in the Sheriff\u2019s Great Hall \u2013 with all the executives from the BBC and BBC Worldwide, there were over 100 people \u2013 I convinced myself I was gonna get replaced. I was that nervous! But once the cameras started rolling, and I was surrounded by my fellow cast members, and especially the stunt team as well, I felt safe.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAfter the first episode some critics were quite cruel, saying physically, I didn\u2019t look like how Robin Hood \u2018should\u2019 look like. But that\u2019s their opinion, so excuse my language but f**k them,\u201d says Armstrong, explaining how \u201cin the break between series, I worked with a trainer and put on about a stone and a half of muscle. I came back looking physically different, and I felt more at ease with myself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Though Robin Hood is famous for living in Sherwood Forest, the series didn\u2019t shoot there. \u201cI did a tour of Europe \u2013 Bucharest, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Ireland and England \u2013 looking for the right [location],\u201d explains Foz Allan. \u201cWe knew that it\u2019d be a big show \u2013 horses, fights, CGI, castles \u2013 so you\u2019re looking for some studio space and some interesting woodlands. We built most of the houses and the castle interior. Frankly, it was cheaper to do it in Hungary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When the cast arrived in Hungary, production began with a rigorous training process to teach them how to be an outlaw. \u201cIt was very intense,\u201d says Armstrong, \u201cbecause we had to learn new skills \u2013 even though I\u2019d had training at drama school with fighting and swordplay, this was different. It was unarmed combat, using a bow and arrow, different types of swords, horse riding, different stunts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe had more flexibility with the stunt team than I think you would necessarily get in England,\u201d says Griffiths. \u201cRules and regulations are there for a reason, but they are often a bit stifling as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe stunt team put us through our paces \u2013 in Hungary they don\u2019t mess about,\u201d agrees Armstrong. \u201cThere was no \u2018oh we have to protect our actors\u2019, they just said, look, this is what you have to do. We\u2019re gonna make you do it. They were brilliant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI never went to the Hood Camp,\u201d says Allen, \u201cas nearly all my scenes were shot in the castle \u2013 or occasionally on location overseeing the ransacking of villages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to take people away for that length of time, but still keep the enthusiasm up,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cIt\u2019s quite hard to be away from home, particularly for young people. You\u2019ll know about the theft of our rushes that extended our stay, which was highly stressful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In August 2006, <\/span>it was reported that four tapes of footage from the series had been stolen from the studio in Hungary<\/span><\/a> \u2013 throwing schedules into disarray, risking missed production deadlines. (It was rumoured, though never confirmed, that a ransom had been issued for their return.) Ultimately,\u00a0<\/span>local police recovered the tapes<\/span><\/a> by early September.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe tapes were stolen. The tapes were returned. I think one guy went to prison for it,\u201d says Foz Allan, still speaking carefully about what happened. \u201cThe tapes were buried in black plastic bags covered in cinnamon \u2013 the bad guys apparently believed that dogs couldn\u2019t smell tape if cinnamon disguised the scent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a publicity stunt, which was reported a lot of the time,\u201d continues Allan. \u201cIt was very emotionally harrowing. Because we were the first High Definition show filmed outside of the UK for British television, we only had one High Definition machine \u2013 when the tapes disappeared, we hadn\u2019t copied and duplicated as you normally would.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe were looking at getting everybody to reshoot significant amounts of what they\u2019d done. It would\u2019ve been difficult, and we wouldn\u2019t have been able to deliver the show [in time]. It was a hit before it arrived, in the sense that BBC Worldwide had already sold it to quite a lot of territories \u2013 so not being able to meet those deadlines would have been emotionally distressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Nonetheless, Armstrong remembers the production fondly. \u201cThere weren\u2019t any fallouts between the cast, which is rare over a three-year period, filming that intensely. The friendships that were forged \u2013 without sounding clich\u00e9 \u2013 became like a family. Because you are family, when you\u2019re away from home over seven months at a time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n At the end of the second series, Guy of Gisbourne kills Marian \u2013 was it Lucy Griffiths\u2019 decision to leave the show? \u201cIt was an idea the writers had, and we spoke about together \u2013 they always wanted to be quite bold with the choices that they made, and it was a bold thing to kill your heroine!\u201d says Griffiths of her departure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cKilling Marian was breaking that \u2018they want to be together, but they can\u2019t be together\u2019 love jam,\u201d explains Minghella, who wrote the series two finale. \u201cFor me, the triangle of Gisbourne, Marian and Robin was what I loved about the show, but I found myself writing its logical conclusion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOne of the reasons I knew the show was a big success \u2013 I think it sold to 140 or 150 territories, it did extraordinarily well worldwide \u2013 was I\u2019d get emails out of the blue. \u2018Dear Mr. Allen, why\u2019d you kill Marian? Love, watcher from Chile\u2019 \u2013 which is very satisfying!\u201d says Foz Allen, laughing.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI felt like \u2013 especially in the second series \u2013 I had given my all, and I had done what I went there to do, if that makes sense,\u201d Griffiths says. \u201cI felt ready and happy to leave. It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t want to be there! It\u2019s just that I was happy and ready to do something else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Having killed Marian, Dominic Minghella began to consider leaving as well. \u201cI was really proud of the end of season two \u2013 but I felt as though I\u2019d done everything I could with the show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI read once there had been some big fallout, but in fact Foz and I remain best mates, always trying to work together,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cI just didn\u2019t know how to come out of the gates in season three with something new and exciting. If you can\u2019t be brilliant, let someone else have a go at being brilliant, basically.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Is there a danger a show like Robin Hood might start to feel repetitive? \u201cIf you look at something like <\/span>CSI<\/span>, for instance, the story each week is different, but the structure is the same,\u201d suggests Foz Allan. \u201cThe reward for the audience is about character \u2013 if you\u2019re enjoying Gisbourne and Robin\u2019s banter, you look forward to that, and if you don\u2019t get that there is a little bit of disappointment there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYou have to find a way to reward the right bit of the audience expectation,\u201d he continues. \u201cYou look at something like <\/span>Doc Martin<\/span>, <\/span>Silent Witness<\/span><\/a>, or <\/span>Doctor Who<\/span>, people enjoy them for their familiarity. Always looking for episode 39 to be fresh is a mistake \u2013 looking for episode 39 to be enjoyable and emotionally rich is where we should be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Going into series three, <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span> introduced a number of new characters \u2013 new outlaws Tuck (David Harewood), Kate (Joanne Froggatt), and Archer (Clive Standen), as well as new villain Isabella (Lara Pulver) \u2013 as part of an effort to reinvent the show for its third year. There were even conversations about a potential fourth series, meaning its stars had to decide how much longer he wanted to stay in the part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThis was halfway through the third series, because obviously the writers would have to come to a finale,\u201d remembers Armstrong. \u201cI had long conversations with my agent: after three years, when Will Scarlett had gone, Djaq had gone, Marian had gone, and we knew that Keith and Richard were leaving, where\u2019s it going to go?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure that the writers would have managed to carry it on. But I just felt it was the right time for me to leave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSally [Wainwright, writer of <\/span>Happy Valley<\/span> and <\/span>Gentleman Jack<\/span>] was brought in to have a look at setting up a fourth series,\u201d reveals Foz Allan. \u201cIf you change your Robin, you have to have a pretty radical solution to that, and that\u2019s what Sally was working on.\u201d Several of the new characters introduced that year were considered potential leads for a fourth series.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, the BBC decided not to renew <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span> for a fourth series. Armstrong\u2019s Robin Hood died in an emotional finale, protecting the people of Nottingham from Sheriff Vaisey<\/span> one last time \u2013 seeing a final vision of Marian as he drew his last breath.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How do they all feel about it now, looking back?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m immensely proud of it now,\u201d says Minghella. \u201cIt\u2019s never a good idea to look online and see what people are saying about where you\u2019ve been, but I stumbled across several groups who follow <\/span>Robin Hood<\/span> and for a good chunk of people it\u2019s still alive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAs Foz and I used to say, it\u2019s for this generation, we want them to remember it and love it and own it as theirs,\u201d he continues. \u201cThe love we put into it seems to be appreciated, which \u2013 having given years of your life to something, not seeing your family and your kids because you really wanted to create something that resonated \u2013 is just really, really gratifying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that we\u2019re having this conversation 15 years on is very rewarding: television is and should be a disposable medium,\u201d agrees Allan. \u201cGetting something that\u2019s remembered 15 years later is pretty good. [I\u2019m also] proud of putting together a production model in Hungary \u2013 nowadays it\u2019s quite regular to go abroad and shoot big shows, but then it was very much early days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI love Budapest, it\u2019s beautiful,\u201d says Griffiths. \u201cBecause I\u2019m not really a traveller, I would probably never have left Brighton \u2013 I\u2019m very lucky that I was forced to! I was quite privileged to have that experience, to have learned [what I did] in a way that that I know not everyone else has.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[I\u2019m pleased that] a lot of adults have fond memories of the show\u201d says Keith Allen. \u201cIt was great family viewing. It was, for a lot of people, a shared experience with family, and that can be very comforting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud that our stories are part of the legend of Robin Hood, and that we got to live that for three years,\u201d says Armstrong. \u201cAnd we did live it! And it was a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Robin Hood is available to watch on BritBox<\/a>. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our TV Guide<\/a> or visit our dedicated Drama<\/a> hub for the latest news.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n By Huw Fullerton At The Radio Times Festival Published: Thursday, 07 October 2021 at 12:00 am By: Alex Moreland \u201cIt\u2019s what you dream of as a kid,\u201d says Jonas Armstrong of Robin Hood, \u201cpracticing how to fire bow and arrows, riding horses, doing stunts. 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