Prince Caspian: Ben Barnes & why is he so old?

tottyfruitty said:
Benji! lol
omgh i would be so psyched if Caspiankid got it
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Me too! It's cool that he just got an audition.

Part of me wonders though if he will be able to tell us if he gets it until much later...provided that he does get it? I don't know if they have to sign contracts that spell out what they can discuss and who they can discuss it with. Even if he does get it...they may not want too much info leaked too early. Besides, he'd have a lot to do with having to travel immediately to NZ and get ready for everything he'd have to film. He probably couldn't give out too many details. He gave some more out on NarniaWeb. They might limit what he can say on the computer especially. They won't want everything spoiled in advance and they certainly don't want a million fan girls showing up on the set. I'm excited for Simon.
 
We won't necessarily find out until either the first reports from the set are produced, or it is leaked.
 
WHOEVER has the role of Caspian, I hope that he will NOT afterwards fall all over himself looking for something sordid and sleazy to do next. There's an odd phenomenon in show business, that actors who have done anything with lofty, uplifting qualities appear to feel that precisely the GOOD elements are some kind of defilement from which they must get cleaned up, or dirtied up. Thus Elijah Wood, after his heroic role as Frodo Baggins, went on to portray an ultra-degenerate, cannibalistic murder in "Sin City." Even some men who have had the privilege of portraying the Lord Jesus Himself seem not to have carried away any lasting heart-benefit from this.

Understand, I don't mean that it makes you a bad person if you act the role of a bad person in some form of drama. SOMEBODY has to play the bad guy. But you can play the bad guy in a way that helps the audience to sympathize with the good guy, OR you can do it in a way that gloatingly glamorizes badness itself. That makes a difference.


Joseph Ravitts (pronounced RAY-vitts)
--author of local fanfic "Southward the Tigers"
 
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