The four BBC Narnia films.

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It's been awhile since I watched the BBC Narnia films. My local library had all four of the films on dvd with bonus features I haven't seen before. The new bonus features are The Watchful Dragons, which is about how C.S. Lewis came to write LWW, a 2003 interview with the cast, outtakes, and features on the costumes, sets and more.

There are four productions in the BBC library. The series starts out with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, then goes onto Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and rounds up with The Silver Chair. They are highly fantastic productions and bring the world of Narnia to life beautifully.Below are some pictures from the productions.
 

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"Something of a star" is more of an American thing. In the UK, acting is considered a middle class profession like a computer programmer or a doctor. And even in America most child actors grow up to become real estate salesmen or organic farmers.
 
I disagree. There is definitely an acting society across the pond. So much so that whenever British actors are being cast for projects it is usually almost always the same rotation of about 10 British actors. That's why you start to get the impression that they just get cast for everything.
 
Dame Maggie Smith wasn't in the BBC movies and was already a star before Narnia.

For others, not being in the UK, I can't state who is of renown due to their acting in that country, but in terms of the child actors:

Richard Dempsey (Peter) was in numerous TV shows, movies and miniseries. His most prolific stint was 32 episodes of the soap opera "Doctors". The most recent credit being from "Doctor Who" in 2022. He's also been in quite a number of musicals and plays in the theatre.

Sophie Cook (Susan) and Sophie Wilcox (Lucy) really didn't do much acting after the series. Johnathan Scott gave up acting a few years after his role as Edmund. Likewise, David Thwaites also had few roles after his role as Eustace.

Camilla Power was the only one who had acting credits prior to her stint as Jill. She was a regular in the popular British Soap Opera "Emmerdale" from 1993-5. She has been on TV in miniseries or one-off or a few episodes for around 30 TV shows since that role, including a one time appearance on "Doctors" possibly during Richard Dempsey's time on the show (she was on a 2011 episode while Dempsey left in 2011). Her most recent role was in 2022.
 
What I'm SAYING is that AS A WHOLE acting is considered a middle class profession. Americans are the folks who pay their American Football players vastly, vastly more than they pay brain surgeons, Nobel Prize winning chemists, or their President. Same for their actors. And no, I didn't think that up from scratch...I was quoting another source.
 
I only bring this up because I am thinking of formal titles, which are usually only bestowed in the UK by the royal family, no matter what nationality the recipient is and there have been many, many actors who have been knighted and received lord and ladyships, presumably due to their acting work.
 
True, true, about knighthood. But that's where you have to understand the British system of honours. There are several ranks of knight within an order just as there are in the military. And to be a Companion of the Order of the British Empire is like being told, "Gee, that's a pretty song you wrote," rather than, "You killed 400 enemy troops with a toothbrush?? I am not worthy to step on your footprints!!!" which would be more like the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath or the Order of the Garter. As for Lord and Lady, never happens. When you enter the peerage, you control land, assess taxes, restore infrastructure, vote in the House of Lords, and pass your title on by heredity (unless you are not a hereditary peer...and some, like retired prime ministers, aren't). Think of it as the United States giving someone not an Oscar or even the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but a seat in the United States Senate. Yeah, it's like that. And trust me, if you get invited to the King's garden party, you don't walk up to the Air Marshal who lost a leg pulling pilots from a burning plane under fire and say, "Can I sit next to you? I'm a Sir too. Maybe you heard my song 'Love is a Garden of Weeds'? Yes sir, we're both knights...."
 
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