Official Georgie Henley II

Ok. Then now all we need is a list of screen names of people who want to be included on the letter.

Here it is as it stands:

Dear Georgie,
(Tab)Congrats on your performances in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. We all loved them! We're looking forward to seeing you perform in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
(Tab)We hope you enjoyed the holidays, and that you and your family were able to celebrate Christ's birth with joy.
(Tab)We all belong to a really cool Narnia forum that we think you might enjoy. It's called The Dancing Lawn(a.k.a. TDL), and you can find it at www.narniafans.com/forum.We just want to say that you are a great actress and we have a fan thread dedicated to you. You might want to check it out sometime if you can. "


Thanks, and may God bless you in all you do in the new year and in the years to come!

Your friends and fans at TDL(list names of members who want to be included)


It fits nicely if you set the font at 14 on MS Word.

Now that this is all sorted out, I'm going to say good night to the few people still on, and I await the screen names of those who want to be included on the letter. If I don't manage to get on tomorrow(which, as we learned from Christmas, probably won't happen), I'm going to say

Happy New Year Georgie!!!Happy New Year Everyone!!!
 
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I do! :) Katie (aka QueenSusanofNarnia). :P Loves to Georgie.

Also, I could have sworn Georgie was in THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON.
Watch this video (the trailer), and watch the little girl (introduced at :41 seconds):
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2171469849/

It might be, but I can't find her name in the credits, nor does it list the film anywhere for her. IMDb lists Elle Fanning as the actress, but it looks an awful lot like Georgie...
Help?
 
I thought Lucy did quite well in the movies. I know that in the books she was supposed to be older than Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole, but in my mind she has always been the youngest.

(Forgive me if I'm interrupting something.:p It seemed like you guys were in the middle of something.)
 
Kristi has the video on hard copy I believe. I'd have to check. It was very sweet of Will to make and send it. They don't just do those easily. His publicist had to get permission from Disney for him to be able to do that. Under contract they can't say anything to the fans on their own in any official event. On the street they can say hi and they can answer fan mail, but that's about it without permissions being necessary I think.

As to the letter for Georgie. Listen carefully. We care about the fans here...but sending letters to the cast and crew is the reponsibility of the individual fan. There will not be a time when a letter will be sent to the cast members on behalf of the site without Specter's direct approval. I will be the first to tell you that if the letter includes an invitation to join us here on TDL in anything other than an undisclosed manner, it will not get approval because it would cause mass hysteria and just not be safe. If you want the address for Georgie, look in the thread in this section for the address. Now, speaking as one who has talked to Georgie in person as well as the other cast members, they do check the site out from time to time...but they seem to have NO interest in posting. They know what would be the likely outcome and the risks. Not to mention that I think their contracts don't allow it per the rules stated above. I talked to Skandar about that and he would have done a video for the fans for LionCon too...I'd have taken it right there at the premiere...but he wasn't legally allowed. Thus he didn't.
 
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Specter is the screenname, but there isn't much of a point in asking him. The stars can't come on here with accounts. They just can't. I don't know of any other way to say it. They are FULLY aware that the site exists. I've stood there in person with Specter and the cast and talked to them. They KNOW you're here. They come here on occasion and glance around. I'm not sure what more you want than that. They CAN'T come on and talk to you on here. I'll check with Will's publicist if you want a statement on that....but that's what I understood.

What is best would be for everyone to send their own letters to Georgie on their own. Not on behalf of the site.

EDIT: I wish you could have too Lucy fan. I talked to the cast at the premiere. They weren't at LionCon. Will just did a promotional video for it.
 
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Geez, now I got to handwrite it? :p Well, I guess she'll think it's from a kid. I don't exactly have the best of handwriting, but I think I can make it look nice.

By the way, can BK or ITW please direct me to the contact address. Assuming no more hassles, the letter will be sent later this week--handwritten and hopefully with a nicely done artistic rendering of the lamp post scene (and if anyone has a good screen save of Lucy at the bridge in PC, that would be great).

MrBob
 
Pianoplayer888 said:
Probably not, but the mods are asking us to, and it's not too hard to do. Besides, if we don't, the mods will come out with their evil modness and be evil mods to us, like they do on the make fun of the non mods thread, or whatever it's called.:D
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You know what'd be really funny? What if the letter was written out, corrected, and proofread by other people unrelated to TDL, but it still mentioned the fact that it was from a bunch of members of TDL? What if this whole idea took place in the privacy of PMs? (Spector can probably read the PMs if he wanted to, so maybe they aren't that private. :rolleyes:)

If that happened, would Paul be considered responsible? I bet if this letter wasn't written as well as Piano put it, the mods wouldn't be all over it. :rolleyes: I say send the letter now. Georgie would probably not care, and Georgie receives many letters anyway. Does her agent read them all? Of course not. If I were to send a letter to Georgie I'd make it on the computer, and might even add graffics to it! I'd then print it out, and sign my name manually with a pen. "TDL" is mentioned in the sense that the letter is from a fan; is anymore info required for Georgie to recognize whether or not it's official? I don't think so.

Send the letter. Have at it. The fact that TDL is merely mentioned as a website that some of her fans visit is not harmful to Paul, just as it wouldn't be harmful to the administrator of 4Forums.com if I mentioned I was a fan from that website. This is just silly. SEND THE LETTER! :rolleyes:
 
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Truman, it may shock you that things are not always as easy as they may appear. Goodness knows I learned that in planning LionCon! There are tons of things that seemed harmelss that we wanted to do....but we couldn't. Why? For legal reasons that most people would be unaware of or would deem unimportant.

The mods, in the apparent evilness others speak of, have done their homework. There's fan mail, and then there's what would be considered a Publication from the site. There's a very fine line there. I think you guys should be in the clear, but if you would state that it is not officially from TDL, that little disclaimer would help. Why? Well, I'll break it down for you. Georgie herself, probably wouldn't care and people are right about that. She's not the only one who necessarily reads her fan mail. If Georgie, or her family, or Walden/Disney, or anyone else were to be offended in any way, shape, or form by anything sent to them and it were considered official it would be considered as a Publication from the site...and Specter would be held liable as if he had written it himself. Hence the reason we are protective of him. Without him, there is no TDL. The site would cease to exist. We get to use it free. He pays a few hundred a month for it. So, we tend to think a little extra sentence to humor us in respecting Paul isn't that big a request.

You might think...it shouldn't matter. Well, lots of things shouldn't matter. In planning LionCon we ran into several problems. In the kids room we wanted to play "pin the tail on the Reepicheep," but we couldn't. Why? Because all gaming rights are owned by Disney and we were told that it was not permissable without their direct say-so. We didn't get direct say-so, thus we couldn't play it with the kids. We were told no movie pictures were to be displayed since they were also under copyright and at one point we couldn't so much as put up a Prince Caspian movie poster. It helps to go to premieres with 3 other board members and talk to publicists and producers to be permitted as fans to promote a film and some books. It's sad that this is what it took to do so. We worked with the CS Lewis Company (CSLC) who were very informative, we tried talking to Disney and Walden. We had to get very, very creative in what we could and could not do to make sure that we were not in danger of copyright infringment. Disney has a lot of money and a lawsuit would not be above them, or above the CSLC. One would think it simple for fans to be just that....but it's not. Just as an FYI, we don't say this stuff to be evil, we say it because of legal issues that most people don't care about till they're sued, and because we love and respect our brother Paul.

Here's the address for Georgie:

Georgie Henley Fan Mail
c/o Hamilton Hodell
Fifth Floor
66 - 68 Margaret Street
London, W1W 8SR
United Kingdom
 
I got the final draft of the letter printed out (although I will handwrite it and compare the two). I did alter a bit of the letter, smoothing things out and adding a slight phrasing that would say that it is not official, but for the most part, the letter is as Piano wrote it. I will try to provide an image of it here.

I did use the Lucy by the lamppost as a background watermark on the paper. I think it looks nice.

Had I left earlier this morning for work, I probably could have gotten to the post office, but I promise to go there tomorrow morning.

(I hope I was successful attaching it)

MrBob
 

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In person she looks like a normal 13 year old. Granted, at the premiere she was all dressed up, and for some reason on film she looks older...but in reality...she looks as young as she is. It's great that she does too. Tis a shame to rush through childhood. Once lost, it's gone forever and often longed for a great deal. I hope she will have a chance to just be a kid for a bit and enjoy these years.
 
I like the "Narnia kids" but my favorite is Georgie. :) I think all of them do very well in acting the characters and hope they get all the kids back for the Last Battle (my favorite book.).

Georgie ROCKS!.:D:)
 
"I know that they are counted automatically; I'm just interested as to why people are keeping track."

Just a bit of friendly competition, Nightfire :D

"I just really hope that she isn't typecast as "the cute little girl who opened the Wardrobe" or something like that."

It depends on what her agent (and parents) will accept in terms of scripts. I wouldn't mind Georgie doing a bad girl kind of character as long as it doesn't go too far. I just hope she doesn't feel the need to do something completely different from her Lucy role.

Lucy will probably be her defining role, but it is possible to transition into more mature roles without going too far. And if she decides to retire from acting after Lucy, I would resepct her for that, too.

MrBob
 
Alambil and Tarvis said:
I just really hope that she isn't typecast as "the cute little girl who opened the Wardrobe" or something like that; I know that happened with the kid who played Beaver Cleaver (Jerry Mathers) on Leave It To Beaver :(
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Small kids tend to do that whenever they see an actor or hear a voice for the first time and attribute it to every other character he/she plays. Actually my parents, for a long time, attributed Ralph Fiennes to "the bad nazi guy from Schindler's List" (Amon Goeth), since that's the first movie they seriously watched with him in it.

Ray Winstone got the same label on him with a few kids I saw who watched Indiana Jones 4: "That's the same guy who did the voice of Mr. Beaver!!" These same kids aren't gonna get to watch Beowulf, however, because Ray also played him. :rolleyes: So yeah, we don't wanna keep the image of Georgie as Lucy for too long or else when we see her older self in another 5 years we'll miss the young girl we once knew. Georgie is growing and that's that. Same thing happened with Mara Wilson... except that she still looks practically the same now as she did when she was 8. ;) To me, anyway.
 
Georgie already played as the young Jane Eyre in the BBC movie.

I think she will do just fine. She's got a good family and they're quite protective and she's got a good big sister with a good head on her shoulders. She's got several friends now in the movie industry and they'll help her keep to the better roles I think. She's a good actress and I believe she will do very well.
 
Why be upset with Georgie growing up? Yes, she was cutest in LWW, but growing up means that childhood cuteness can transform into adult beauty. She is a pretty teenager now. It will be interesting to see her in a few years, but for now, we can enjoy her as she is.

MrBob
 
Ben is extremely tall and I think one of his shirts would be like a dress on Georgie like Alambil said. It could work. It would be amusing to say the least. But it could work. Someone could give her a belt of some sort and it would be like a regular short dress on her.

One of the scenes I've looked forward to is the market place for the Lone Islands. It talks about things Lucy got there in the book. She'd be able to get more appropriate clothes for the rest of the voyage there I think. I can't wait to see what Isis comes up with for Georgie in this film. The trick will be to get her hair to work well with whatever kind of dress she gets. It will be sort of tricky, but doable. If they wanted to do something like the Renaissance hair taping, that could work well and it wouldn't be that difficult for a girl to do. If she can do basic braids or standard french braids on herself, then after the lone islands she could do something like a Renaissance classic....provided it didn't make her look too old. She still has to look like a young girl on the Island of the Dufflepuds. Simple is good as long as it works with the Narnian clothes she gets in the islands.
 
Georgie Henley is sweet and genuine as Lucy.
I love the scene, where she enters Narnia through the wardrobe for the first time. She really looks like a child seeing a huge, wonderful christmas tree. Open and artless.
And Lucy has the innocent faith of a child. Great!
 
Georgie had a few crying scenes in LWW. Even though they were in the book, I don't recall of any crying scenes in PC. There are a few crying scenes for Lucy in the VotDT book, but I don't think they'll keep them. One of them was the slave scene when they were being taken away.

As for yelling/emotional scenes, I can easily see those being left in. They make her character live. I want to see her yelling at Edmund and Caspian as they are about to engage in a swordfight on Deathwater Island, maybe even getting in between the two as they have their swords drawn.

MrBob
 
She shouted at Peter and Susan in LWW when they were fighting over Edmund. I don't think they'll take out any of the shouting in VDT. They'll leave in the emotional bits. Georgie is growing as an actress and she will do well with it all I think. Andrew talked about how Georgie looks like she's laughing at times when she's actually crying so crying scenes are more difficult to shoot, but she'll do well.
 
No, there's nothing wrong with Lucy's character yelling when it's warranted. There's just a fine line in keeping with the character of Lucy. Her character has a certain innocence and a want to do what is good. It is ok for her to be forceful at times and she is, but they just have to walk a fine line to keep within the spirit of her character. They've done quite well with Lucy thus far. Georgie is doing well with her.
 
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