Skandar Keynes, who’s 16, played Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Skandar Keynes talks about his forthcoming movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Skandar Keynes, who’s 16, played Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Along with the rest of his onscreen siblings and director Andrew Adamson, Keynes is back for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the second installment of C.S.Lewis’ beloved adventures. Skandar looks back on the making of the film and tells us about his high hopes for the movie.
So what have you been doing between making the film and now?
I’ve been at school! I finished work on Prince Caspian on September 1st last year and went back to school on the 4th and I’ve been there ever since.
How did making Prince Caspian compare with making The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
To be honest, I felt like a deer caught in the headlights on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I was shipped out to New Zealand with a month’s notice and began work straight away and I was just kind of sitting there like, “Oh, what’s going on around me?” On Prince Caspian it began with us all having a party and everyone already knew each other and it was like slipping back into a family environment. There was a lot of “Hey, my name’s Skandar!” on the first film. On Prince Caspian, it was like, “Hey, how are you doing?”
Edmund was pretty much the villain in the first film. What’s he up to in Prince Caspian?
I didn’t see Edmund as a villain. I thought he was a good guy who did bad things, but he’s matured a lot in this story and there are moments when he would have put down his little sister in the old days but now he’s really kind to her. And he saves Will a lot, ‘cause Will’s character is not so great in this one.
The shooting of the Narnia films lasts a long time. Is there anything you miss while you away from home?
Fish and chips.
And what about at the end of the shoot? The Pevensies find it hard to return to their everyday lives. What do you miss when you leave the production behind?
Well, I’m happy to get back home for the fish and chips, but on the set there is non-stop catering! I’ve grown like seven inches over the last year so I have to eat a lot.
And looking beyond Prince Caspian? Do you have plans to make more films?
I’m playing Edmund again in the next Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We begin shooting that at the end of the year.
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