{"id":619711,"date":"2026-09-18T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:14:13","slug":"greta-gerwig-on-casting-meryl-streep-as-aslan-in-the-magicians-nephew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/619711\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Gerwig On Casting Meryl Streep As Aslan In ‘The Magician’s Nephew’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Greta Gerwig<\/a> leads Netflix<\/a> viewers through the wardrobe with her take on Narnia<\/a>, one major character will feature an instantly recognizable voice.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 4x Oscar nominee explained the \u201clist is not a long one\u201d when it came to narrowing down her search for Aslan to Meryl Streep<\/a>, who will voice the lion in Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew, premiering Feb. 12, 2027 in Imax before its April 2 Netflix debut.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness,\u201d she explained to Empire<\/a> of casting Aslan. \u201cSomeone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGerwig added, \u201cI wanted someone who was older than 70, so there was a wisdom of experience, but who also had the capacity of fresh wonder, like a child. And also to be one of the greatest actors to ever do it. That list is not a long one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPreviously voiced by Liam Neeson, Aslan is a talking lion and the true king of Narnia, appearing in all seven of C.S. Lewis\u2019 Narnia books.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Lewis\u2019 sixth in the series, The Magician\u2019s Nephew is chronologically the first in The Chronicles of Narnia, following Aslan\u2019s creation of Narnia, a thousand years before the events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Gerwig confirmed her plans to adapt<\/a> Lewis\u2019 Chronicles of Narnia books for Netflix. Streep became attached to the role<\/a> of Aslan last April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Greta Gerwig leads Netflix viewers through the wardrobe with her take on Narnia, one major character will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,19655,85,46,9268,397,25477,280184,400],"class_list":["post-619711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-greta-gerwig","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meryl-streep","tag-movies","tag-narnia","tag-narnia-the-magicians-nephew","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}