You’re filming The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader in Australia at the moment, how’s that going?
Will Poulter: Its really good fun thank you, I’m really enjoying myself but I am missing home quite a bit, especially my family and friends. Although I will be sad to leave I will be really pleased to be home for Christmas.
Your character, Eustace Scrubb, isn’t very well behaved and of course you played the ‘most badly behaved kid in school’ in Son of Rambow. How do you keep getting these type of roles?
Will Poulter: I know, I would really like to play a nice character for once! I feel quite bad about having to play those characters and I hope there is no one like Eustace Scrubb!
The famous introduction in the book by CS Lewis is: “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” Would you say that’s a fair evaluation of your character?
Will Poulter: Absolutely. He is a complete brat, he’s obnoxious, rude, selfish and cowardly and has no respect for anyone other than himself. However he does become a much better adjusted person at the end of the book.
Sounds like the movie makers have Eustace pegged pretty well! I really hope they include his journal in the movie!
*thinking* I hope that they have Eustace be a character the audience can like after his conversion.
Poor Will! Well, in “The Silver Chair”, Eustace has shaped up. 😉
Yea, and I’m happy that by then, he knows what he’s doing.
He DOES get to play a nice character same as Skander does–just it takes a little while to get to the niceness. 😉
But then, you guys basically beat me to that comment.
its good having these actors come and experience australia for a change!
Lucky them.
He sounds… punctual… 😛
Yes, very punctual. Go Will!