They are learning about the universe that they’ve discovered as you are reading about it. You have to hit the ground running and they’re veterans with one year already.īEN: It was interesting about what you were saying about Harry Potter, this device that’s used so often in children’s literature, putting the protagonist at the age of the person that you hope will be most engaged with reading and watching it. You mentioned before we started, Ben, that the Pevensie children have an advantage over Caspian when he arrives, in that they’ve already done one, but they are also as you say kids. I think the films are terrific, although they do have budgets roughly 100 times what we had at the time, they used them extremely well.
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I liked Ben’s performance because it was dashing and brave but full of self doubt and duty and truth, all the things that happen to you if you’re a thoughtful king or prince, which of course Caspian is. That was a very clever casting decision, not that I didn’t love Jean-Marc Perret’s performance as the young Prince Caspian, but to have an older Caspian so that you have the continuity through those two books. First of all, I was quite jealous that he got to play Prince Caspian, because I didn’t. But no, I went to see them when they were released. I didn’t see them when I was small because they didn’t exist and I’m extremely old. SAM: Not at all! I thought he was marvelous.
NarniaWeb: For you, Sam, was it strange seeing Ben take on the character in the newer movies? Was it weird seeing someone else in the role? It binds you together in a sort of shared childhood experience, as I suppose being 10 when the first Harry Potter book came out, or even being 8 when the first Narnia book came out in 1950 or thereabouts. But yes, it is lovely when you meet people when it first came out or first met it when they were 8. SAM: (laughs) I know exactly what you mean about throwing beavers to ADs. Samuel West: So, as long we have a vote and it’s confined entirely to 8-year-olds, I think the BBC might win. They are to me perfect and magical in every way. They are utterly magical to me in every single way, even though there are sort of stuffed beavers being clearly thrown from one AD to the other in front of the lens. I still have my combined copy of Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. NARNIAWEB: I remember you telling me that you grew up with the BBC versions of The Chronicles of Narnia.īen Barnes: I absolutely did.
(laughter) So it was actually one of the first things I came across when I landed in this world. You might remember I interviewed you on the set of Prince Caspian during filming.īEN: Of course I do! I remember when I got this job, and Georgie, Anna and Will–experienced veterans of being in the films–were telling me that NarniaWeb was where we were to get all the honest reactions. NARNIAWEB: And Ben, good to see you again. NARNIAWEB (GLUMPUDDLE): Good morning, Sam.
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