ComingSoon.net got a chance to talk exclusively to Anna Popplewell about playing Susan in the highly-anticipated film. We’ve selected only a few questions to show you here. The full interview is available at the source link.
CS!: Can you tell us about yourself?
Anna Popplewell: I lived in London with my family. I go to an all-girl school there. I got into The Lion and the Witch after a long casting process. It was like 18 months, 2 years. I originally went to meetings just to set up any auditions and then kept going back and back and back until I was screen tested. And that was that.
CS!: How did the acting go? What did you most enjoy about the process?
Anna Popplewell: The most enjoyable thing about the process of being on that set was the number of really wonderful people. We were so lucky we had such a great crew and great cast and a really nice set of people from the top right down. We were really lucky. It was a really nice set to be on. A great atmosphere. And really good fun. That was one of the best things about the experience – meeting all those people.
CS!: On set there were lots of people in lots of costumes. Monsters and centaurs and minotaurs and all kinds.
Anna Popplewell: There were. There are all sorts of things. It was great. We had the most bizarre lunch tent. You’d be sitting down having lunch with ogres and centaurs and goblins and everything. It was great – it was a very cool tent.
CS!: All of the monsters, all of the creatures around – but, no Aslan on the set.
Anna Popplewell: We had a model Aslan for one scene. For the stone table we had a model Aslan for that. An animatronics one. Which was pretty amazing. And the rest was CGI.
CS!: How did you do the CGI stuff? Was it hard?
Anna Popplewell: It’s slightly bizarre acting to nothing. We tried lots of different ways. We had people reading in with eye lines. We had ping pong balls on sticks. And fluorescent markers and all sorts of thing. And it got easier. It was a new experience.
CS!: Do you have any stories about your favorite time on the set?
Anna Popplewell: We had lots. One of the fun days that we had soon after we arrived was little Georgie’s birthday when she turned nine. And she was away from home. It was soon after the start of the shoot – about the fifth of July. And it was just so fun watching her have so much attention. I’ve never seen a nine-year-old have a birthday like that. It was just huge, huge. If you can imagine 400 people on set, everyone sang happy birthday. And then we changed because we had shootings while we were on set. And we changed our cast room into a party room and spent the day in between shots making cake and biscuits and threw this huge surprise party in there and it was just really cool to see her face – we all got along really well. Even being different ages, it was like a mini family. It was great.
CS!: Are you missing them yet?
Anna Popplewell: I still see them and speak to them. We keep in touch which is really nice.
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