“So you guys shot in New Zealand.”

A: “Ya!”

M: “Yeah we did.”

“How was that?”

M: “New Zealand was an absolutely amazing country. It was, um, I think it was the perfect place to film the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe just because it has so much untouched landscape. I remember going from the North Island to the South and we’d be filming in studios for four months and, y’know, if you were stepping outside [talklaughdidn’tcatchwhathe’ssaying], y’know and run around, it felt a bit more free and an absolute relief and it was so wonderful for us and it really felt like Narnia.”

A: “Yeah, I mean New Zealand is a beautiful place and also the people were so friendly and so welcoming. I mean, the majority of our crew from New Zealand just made for a rainy day back set.”

“And I hear you even had to helicopter-ed sometimes to the locations.”

A: “Yeaahh!! In the South Islands we got go on the helicopters!”

M: “And what’s the story about that, Anna?”

A: “I love to the helicopters and one neat thing and we were filming so late and we had a dinner reservation that we were going to be late for and the producers thought it’d be fun if they flew us to dinner in the helicopter…”

M: “And, uh.”

A: “That was so cool.”

M: “And when I had a dinner reservation that I was going to be late for, they go ‘TOUGH’. The only word they said was ‘TOUGH’. Anna, they say ‘helicopter’, to me they say ‘tough’. A little bit of a…”

“Very unfair…When did you guys decide you wanted to be actors ‘cuz this is a big movie, it’s going to put you guys on the map, [to Anna] I know you’ve done a lot of films but--”

A: “Yeah, I don’t think it was something that I ever really decided. Um, it just, I really fell in acting by a happy accident and I love being on film sets. But I love being in a normal school, I love being in school as well and I’m lucky that I haven’t had to choose between the two really…

M: “I sort of fell into through a happy accident as well, just a casting director coming to an elementary school and auditioning me for a TV drama. I went and loved the auditions and she got me an agent and I just loved it so.”

A: “You never know where life’s going to take you.”

“Ah…now being in school and being on screen and like this big of a movie, is it, are you starting to feel that people are looking at you and going ‘Oh my gosh, she’s in Narnia’ and treating you a bit differently?”

A: “Um, I think, y’know, the-the publicity side of things is something that we hadn’t really anticipated at all doing this movie. And I—funny, quite weird now, I have to say I was confronted by my face on a cereal box in the supermarket the other day and I thought that was really weird.”

M: “I think a lot of the time, y’know, you just have to take each moment, each day as it comes. You can’t over plan, you can’t UNDER plan, but you just keeping this mutual equilibrium. And then down the fact that, y’know, even reading an article about yourself, y’know, it’s, y’know, it’s just an opinion, it’s not necessarily you, it’s just an opinion. Whether you read it or whether you don’t, it’s down to—and it’s just best that we stay grounded. We have each other; we’re very, very close. And we have our families we’re very close to our families. And our friends, of course. And each one of those sections is very, very grounding to our personalities, in fact BRUTALY grounding so, we’re very, very pleased and glad that we have them.”

“What was--- how important are the books. Have you read them? Were you fans?”

M: “Yeah, well I used to listen to the story tapes when I was about 7 years old and I would go to sleep every night to them. And when I finally came to 15 years old and, y’know, I started reading the books again and I was auditioning and I just loved it so much that I really wanted to be part of the film and I dedicated so much of my time.”

A: “Yeah, I mean, I read them when I was about 7 and reread them during the casting process and really, actually loved them as much as the second time around. I think they really appeal..”

M: “Yeah.”

A: “to me as a teenager.”

“Do you think it’s important for children to keep that imagination?”

A: “Definitely.”

M: “I think the imagination is one of the most important things, um, in anything. It’s what stimulates absolutely anything. It stimulates art, it stimulates writing, it stimulates everything and so we have to use our imagination for on the set for, y’know, balls, y’know, to create and Aslan, to create a beaver, and I really, really hope that children still read and still have these visions of Aslan and visions of Narnia.”

A: “The imagination is such a powerful tool and I think it’s really important, not only for children, but also for adults to use their imaginations. Um, and I hope that, y’know, through this movie, not only children, but adults realize how important it is to keep the imagination alive.”

“Thank you guys, it was really fun talking to you. Thanks.”

M: “Thank you.”

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W: they go ‘TOUGH’. The only word they said was ‘TOUGH’.

Happy news years guys!