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After sharing several long snippets and images this past week, Empire Magazine has finally published their full feature about their visit to the set of Greta Gerwig\u2019s Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew.<\/p>\n
The story includes new images of Digory and Polly in the attic, Uncle Andrew interacting with Digory and Polly at the front door, and Digory snuggling with his mother in bed. The images have not been released online yet.<\/p>\n
The feature is long and wide-ranging. Read on for a short summary of the highlights:<\/p>\n
Story Points<\/p>\n
Digory\u2019s mother is named Flora instead of Mabel. Flora was the name of C.S. Lewis\u2019s mother that died of cancer when he was nine years old. (According to our sources, one of Polly\u2019s sisters will be named Mabel)<\/p>\n
Digory and Polly are neighbors, as in the book. Empire visited the set of the kitchen in Polly\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
The Charn set, Empire says, \u201clooks, perhaps uncoincidentally, like an exploded pinball machine. Lights flash orange and green, huge chrome orbs are pushed into the ceiling. The set is rooted in technology and art that felt full of wonder during the time that The Magician\u2019s Nephew is set in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAslan is this cosmic lion that is awesome,\u201d Gerwig says. \u201cLike, awesome in more of an antique sense \u2014 filled with awe \u2014 and the valence isn\u2019t always delight. It\u2019s also something that\u2019s powerful and big, but it can also be frightening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behind the Scenes<\/p>\n
Gerwig approached Netflix in 2020 and suggested they start with The Magician\u2019s Nephew. \u201cIf you take the seven books together, it\u2019s about the life and death of a universe,\u201d she told them.<\/p>\n
During the casting process, David McKenna (Digory) and Beatrice Campbell (Polly) teared up as Greta Gerwig explained how C.S. Lewis lost his mother to cancer.<\/p>\n
Gerwig had a dream about Meryl Streep playing Aslan. \u201cIt felt fitting to me, as Lewis wrote about dreaming of lions when he first began writing the Narnia books.\u201d<\/p>\n
During filming, Meryl Streep would stand on a ladder and read Aslan\u2019s dialogue.<\/p>\n
Gerwig was present when Streep recorded her vocal cameo for Project Hail Mary, which was also produced by Amy Pascal.<\/p>\n
When Daniel Craig (Uncle Andrew) was eight years old, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first book he read cover-to-cover.<\/p>\n
You can read the full feature by purchasing a copy of the November edition of Empire Magazine in stores tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew releases worldwide in 142 days (February 12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sharing several long snippets and images this past week, Empire Magazine has finally published their full feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}