rebeccalouisaferguson:

I play Morgana, she is the villain. I finally get to play a villain in the underground strapped to trees, a suit and dirt and wet. I read this script and I met Joe, and I just fell madly in love with it. And I had never done a character that turns into a dragon. And I’ll be doing magic! I’ve always wanted to do Harry Potter. – Rebecca Ferguson about her role as Morgana in “The Kid Who Would Be King”

She’s been dormant, sleeping under the soil of Britain for centuries. She’s been waiting for Britain to become lost and leaderless and divided. She’s decided that the time is right for her to reclaim what she thinks is hers – Joe Cornish, director of “The Kid Who Would Be King” about Morgana

Rebecca Ferguson as Morgana in “The Kid Who Would Be King” (2019)

Do the Chronicles of Prydain count as Arthurian novels? It’s more (loosely) based off of the Mabinogion than anything else, but there are references to Cwlhuch and Olwen.

Sorry for answering this late! 
I feel like the Mabinogion has a bigger picture that has a bit of arthuriana in it, like an overlapping, or even more, like a big mix of texts and traditions where then we have one of them (arthurian related one) take a new road (a bit like an evolutionary tree).

About the Chronicles of Prydain (I love those novels), I think because not many people consider Culhwch and Olwen as 100% arthuriana, it would probably not be considered an arthurian novel. The arthurian theme in Culhwch and Olwen was the (very common) theme of having the story happening in arthurian times, with arthurian characters in the background. If I remember correctly, they did take that out from The Chronicles pf Prydain. 

I think it mostly depends on how much people consider Culhwch and Olwen to be arthurian characters instead of only overlapping with arthurian characters that then remained in future arthurians texts.

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