Tilda Swinton, who plays the evil White Witch in writer-director Andrew Adamson’s upcoming big-screen adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, told SCI FI Wire that she knew nothing at all of the C.S. Lewis stories on which the film is based. “I was one of the very few people brought up on these islands who hadn’t been given the books along with my mother’s milk,” the British actress said in an interview while promoting her latest film, Thumbsucker. “So I came to it with a beginner’s mind. I still haven’t read them all, but I thought it was a good read, and I thought it would make a good film. So I was very happy to do it. When I met with Andrew Adamson I just thought he was the right person for the job.”
Swinton (Constantine) said that Adamson took a classical approach to interpreting Lewis’ fantasy story, about four children who discover a doorway to a magical world ruled by a stately lion. “I think what he set out to make – and if I’m wrong here then he’ll have to forgive me – is a very straightforward, classical children’s film, something very, very classical and mythical,” Swinton said. “It won’t feel modern, I don’t think, in the way in which we’ve come to expect. We expect very CGI-laden films to feel modern, and I think, if anything, this is going to feel refreshingly archaic. And Andrew, of course, is the only person who can do that, because he’s Mr. Special Effects.
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