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.”
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Swinton: Narnia’s White Witch! McAvoy: Tumnus?
The part is one of the biggest movie roles of the year – and Tilda Swinton has landed it. She will play the wicked White Witch who rules as the ice queen of Narnia, the fictional land created by C. S. Lewis where it’s always winter but never Christmas, in his classic novel The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
James McAvoy, one of the stars of award-winning TV drama State Of Play and TV series Shameless, is rumoured to have been offered the role of Mr Tumnus, the Narnian creature who tries to help the children after they stumble into his world via an old wardrobe.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Cast to be Revealed
From Disney’s Europe Web Site: The four Pevensie children from this Christmas’s eagerly anticipated release of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe are to be “revealed” in London’s Leicester Square […]
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Swinton and McAvoy nab London Film Critic Noms!
The London Film Critic Award nominations were released and LWW, Swinton and McAvoy are all nominated.
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