His Dark Materials star Amir Wilson managed to damage a key prop he took home with him from the set, it's been revealed.
Catching up with Digital Spy for an exclusive chat about the fantasy series, which adapts Philip Pullman's award-winning book trilogy, the Will Parry portrayer weighed in on whether he got to hang onto his character's universe-opening subtle knife, which brought him to Dafne Keen's Lyra Belacqua.
"I've got the knife just in my living room," he said. "They boxed it up for me. It says: 'To Amir. From Oxford, to many worlds and back. Never forget to tell them stories.'"
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And yet, disaster loomed on the horizon.
"I've had it there for like a year, nearly a year. But I had my friends round the other month, and I took it out, and actually dropped it," Wilson said. "So a bit of it chipped off, which isn't great.
"But I said on a panel the other day that I'm going to superglue it back together. And I heard… lots of the prop guys were in the audience, and I just heard a big: [gasps] – a big gasp.
"Then I got a message on my Instagram DMs from someone who helped designed it – his name is Michael – he was like, 'If you can send it to me, I'll fix it. But please don't superglue it.' I was like, 'I will not superglue it.'"
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Elsewhere in our chat, Wilson also teased that a fourth season of His Dark Materials was at one time being discussed, even though the show has now finished for good.
His Dark Materials airs on BBC One in the UK and HBO in the US.
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