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 Ben Barnes
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime An exciting element of Hollywood adapting a British book series like The Chronicles Of Narnia is the opportunity for talent of the region to be granted an unprecedented worldwide audience. One such British performer is Ben Barnes . A theater actor, Barnes has crossed over to film with a role in the adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust. Now he has embarked in another film adaptation of a literary work, this time in the second book of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles Of Narnia series, Prince Caspian. Being the now 26 year-old actor’s first big role in a film, Ben first discussed how ecstatic he was when he learned he was going to play Prince Caspian. “I can’t even describe that evening,” Barnes recalls, “I told them to ring me anytime they made their decision, just ring me either way, I got to know either way. And it was about 4:00AM London time and they called me and I just ran around the house screaming. I can’t explain to you the thrill of doing the first lead Hollywood big film, particularly when it’s something you grown up reading and you just don’t get many moments like that.” A lifelong fan of the Narnia book series, the actor says he was deeply excited about the prospect of being in a major Hollywood film adaptation of the series. “I rented the first movie, when I was auditioning. And I thought, these are big, aren’t they?” he says, “Because I remember watching the BBC series and finding it just charming and lovely and I was eight and it’s magic and it was real. And you watch it back and it’s just a dwarf in a mouse suit! That’s not an effect! That’s not a mouse, that’s a dude! I brought that up with Warwick [Davis] and it was him, in the original series.” “ I watched a few minutes of it when we were shooting this and you just think it’s lost…you can’t watch too much of it,” Ben continues, “It’s like when you re-watch old He-Man episodes. You just realize they are using the same frame over and over and over again and you don’t want it to lose its magic, but kids today don’t know how good they got.” We asked Ben if there was a difference between acting in theater and acting on film and explained for us how he learned to maintain his level of skill on a film set. “Yes, it’s a different skill entirely,” he claims, “On stage, you have 2 ½ hours to go through a 2 ½ hour journey and this is seven months to go through a 2 ½ hour journey. So you kind of have to psyche yourself up for each individual moment. And I think the main enemy there is you can psyche yourself up too much for one particular moment, because it’s the only moment you have to make sure on that day, so it’s the most important thing in the world to |
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