Toronto’s NOW Magazine recently interviewed actor James McAvoy, who portrayed Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, where he spoke about his up-coming movie The Last King of Scotland and on not appearing in the next Narnia film.
The actor states that he is OK with not being in the next film, saying,
“I’m glad that they’re showing integrity and not messing with the narratives and sticking me in because I was in the first one.”
The article was also quick to point out that he likes to play the roles of reluctant helpers. In the movie The Last King of Scotland, he plays a distressed aide to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, while in the Narnia movie he played spy-turned-good to the White Witch. To this, McAvoy said,
“I love conflict in a character…When you’ve got a character with a conflict in himself, you’ve got a psychological story to tell rather than just a situation. Things easily grow from there”