Well, the short answer is we don’t know, although plenty of rumors popped up at the time. In the second season of The Wheel of Time, Mat will be played by Dónal Finn. Barney Harris will not return as Mat Cauthon in The Wheel of Time season 2 On the show, he stays behind at Tar Valon.
In the book, he goes with the rest of the gang through the Ways to Fal Dara. You can kind of tell that it affected the final two episodes of the season in particular sequences like the battle at Fal Dara don’t quite have the scale you’d expect.Īlso, one of the lead actors didn’t return to work along with the rest of the cast after the break: Barney Harris, who played Mat Cauthon, didn’t come back and basically had to be written out of the show for the final two episodes. Remember that? Remember how fun that was? Ugh.Īt one point, The Wheel of Time filming stopped and only resumed once certain social distancing measured were in place.
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While fans were happy to see Robert Jordan’s vaunted book series finally get a proper adaptation, the show was unlucky in that it had to film chunks of its season at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, when no one knew how long this was going to last, or exactly what precautions to take, and everything just kind of shut down for a while. Mat has a lot in store for him this season, and it will be fantastic to see how Dónal Finn makes this character his own.The first season of The Wheel of Timeaired on Amazon in 2021. Seeing him more lighthearted is a good change, and seeing an interpretation that is a bit more book-accurate is a welcome sight to fans. It is easily explained by the change the character has already gone through and is still undergoing at the start of Season 2. The Wheel of Time has perfectly navigated integrating a new actor in the role of Mat Cauthon by simply not outwardly acknowledging the change. Moiraine warned that the blade would be his destruction if Mat were ever to touch it again, so he may not be all that healed from the dagger as we think. Before she goes back to her own, she gets a glimpse into his possible future and sees Mat again with the dagger from Shadar Logoth, killing Rand ( Josha Stradowski).
When he and Min first break through the wall connecting their rooms, they share a drink in his cell. He may have more jokes, more energy, and sass, but there are still hints of darkness in him. When we last see him in Season 1, Mat chooses to stay behind as the rest of the party goes into the Ways, traveling to the Eye of the World - although archival footage of Harris was used for a scene in the finale in which Mat returns to Tar Valon.ĭónal Finn may be a new face for the character, but Mat is still recognizable through the changes he has undergone. Once reunited with Moiraine ( Rosamund Pike), she cuts the connection he has to the dagger. The tainted dagger quickly starts to consume him, and the character's dry humor present in the early episodes all but disappears as it takes its toll on his mind and body. Later on, when Mat takes the cursed ruby dagger from Shadar Logoth, he gets a lot more than he bargained for. We know Season 1's Mat cares deeply for his sisters, enough that he steals to afford things for them. His role as the character has to go through a lot of changes fast, and he sold it. Harris was a fantastic Mat for the six episodes we got to see him in. While fans may have known he would be departing the series before the first episode of the show even aired, that doesn't mean he didn't make an impression. During Season 1 of The Wheel of Time, Harris chose to step away from the show for personal reasons.
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