Next week, he can be seen in a small part in the Paul Bettany/Kirsten Dunst romance Wimbledon and, once he’s finished this interview, he’s going back to London to pack his bags for New Zealand, where he’s about to spend six months playing Mr Tumnus – a faun – in the big-budget adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe alongside Tilda Swinton and Rupert Everett. “It’s a cliche but it was one of my favourite books when I was a child,” he says. “It terrified me but I loved it.”
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Cast News
“First Class” Tumnus!
Actor James McAvoy ( best known to NarniaFans as “Mr. Tumnus”) has been in everything from Narnia, to the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, to Wanted. He’s even been rumored to play Mr. Bilbo Baggins […]
Miscellaneous
James McAvoy and Wife Anne-Marie Duff are expecting their First Child
Congratulations, Mr. Tumnus! Actor James McAvoy, the actor that played Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and his wife of four years, Anne-Marie Duff, are expecting their […]
Narnia Film News
Narnia Gets McAvoy’s Goat
James McAvoy, who plays the half-human, half-goat Mr. Tumnus in the upcoming fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, told SCI FI Wire that the character’s goat-like leg was realized with computer imagery, but he still needed to get around on set as if he had a human torso and a large, single goat leg. […]