In this exclusive interview with ComingSoon.net, Moseley told us how he got the job and how it was an experience that changed his life. For the rest of the interview, visit the source link above.
CS!: How did you find out about this movie or how did Andrew find you?
William Moseley: Well, basically what happened was I had a casting director who knew me from a period drama. She liked me and remembered me from this agency. If you’d like, I can tell you the story. What happened was I was at this tiny little primary school when I was ten years old. There, we studied the three core subjects and it was relaxed and easy and everyone knew everyone else. One day, this casting director comes to town looking for a knobbly-kneed red-faced village child. I sort of fitted the bill. I was not self-conscious; I was a total show-off. I just loved all the attention and I loved doing these improvisations and just being in the moment. It was for this period drama on BBC that I couldn’t do because I was too young for the older role and too old for the younger role.
CS!: How was it to act opposite all sorts of creatures that weren’t really there?
Moseley: That’s a good question, because when I first got there, I found it kind of weird, because you have this guy just holding a pole with a piece tape or something on it, and you have to be scared or empowered or frustrated by it. What we all did as almost child actors was we used our imaginations and we created the perfect Aslan or the perfect Beavers or the perfect wolves, which were scary. We saw them in our minds and it was almost better that way, because they were perfect to us and unique to our imagination. I remember watching “The Lord of the Rings” one day and I could see that the guy was looking at an “X” on the matte box of the camera. That was his sightline and that was supposed to be Gollum. I remember thinking that his eyes weren’t moving. When you talk to someone, your eyes and your face are constantly moving. Your eyes aren’t locked, so that was something that Andrew helped with. He could become the eyeline of that character, because he knew everything about it, as far as the dimensions.
CS!: What were your favorite scenes to shoot? All the war stuff?
Moseley: Yeah, that is an easy question, because that was amazing. I couldn’t have enjoyed that any more than I did. Like I said, I rode on this perfectly trained white Spanish Andalusian horse, bareback with a full suit of armor, sword and a shield across a battlefield, galloping towards snow-capped New Zealand mountains. I mean, that was the greatest experience of my life.
CS!: Were you the one who had problems with armor constantly having to be refitted?
Moseley: No, actually that was Skandar [Keynes], who played Edmond. He grew six and a half inches. I think I grew a bit, so they had to do me now and again, but he grew weekly.
CS!: Peter also appears in the second Narnia book, so do you know if you’re already signed to do another movie?
Moseley: Well, the script isn’t totally done yet, and they’re still working on it, but I’m very happy and willing and looking forward to doing the next one.