Roundtable Interview with Will Poulter, Georgie Henley on Dawn Treader

Hollywood Jesus took part in a roundtable interview with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader‘s actors Georgie Henley (Lucy) and Will Poulter (Eustace).  In the interview, they talk about the inspiration they had for the film, as well as trying to stay as true to the book as possible.  In fact, that’s the one thing that Will Poulter was the most concerned about, and even said that his own hair color was a problem for him.

The actors were asked what inspired them in the making of this installment of the Chronicles of Narnia series.  Georgie Henley began, “I loved the book; it’s my favorite book in the series.  That really kind of inspired me. I wanted to take what I loved about the book and recreate it in the film. And also I really wanted to use all the stuff I felt like I’ve learned on the other two films and kind of use it to give Lucy a good farewell and send her off in style.”

Will Poulter continued:  “I think the greatest kind of inspiration was the book itself and that was for everyone.  Everyone was trying to stay very true to the book.  The directors insisted on that.  I guess the biggest challenge for me was trying to represent Eustace as he is in the book.  Everyone has a vision of what he looks like.  I messed that up  before I stepped on set, because he has dark hair.  I was just very nervous about that.  You hate coming out of a film and hearing someone say, “Aw, I preferred the book.”  You feel bad for them because they may have been left out over the representation of something they’ve grown up with.  That was the biggest fear for me.  But the book is the inspiration so we all tried to stay as true to the book as we could.”

It was noted that for Georgie, this film was a bit of a change from the previous films in that she is in more of a leading role.  She responded, “I’ve always thought that in the Narnia films there’s never one main character; it’s always an ensemble cast.  And I feel the same on this film. But I do think that because she’s the only girl she does have more of a roll to play, if you know what I mean.  In the ensemble she has more of a significance if you will.  And that’s kind of pertaining to the first film, because I think people forget that Lucy is actually the one who discovered Narnia, and she is the one who takes everyone into it.  And I think touching on that was another technique that we kind of used to revert back to the setting of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – back to the magic of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – that was something that I tried to touch on.  I love a bit of girl power and I tried really hard to practice so they would let me do my own stunts.”

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