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 Anna Popplewell
Interview By: Michael Dance Anna Popplewell has to be one of the most normal people to ever headline a massively-budgeted movie franchise. In 2005's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and now its sequel, Prince Caspian, she's played Susan Pevensie, one of the four Pevensie children introduced in C. S. Lewis's classic Chronicles of Narnia series. But despite the seven-month shooting schedule for each flick and then the month of nonstop press junkets, she seems startlingly down-to-earth. "I don't think my friends really think of me as a movie star," Anna says. "The people I'm friendly with are very cool about it, and not particularly interested in it, really. I mean, I'm sure they'll see the film, but it's not like they're sitting around talking about it all the time. I mean, I don't walk down the street in London with huge sunglasses and a sign that says, 'Look at me, I was in Narnia.' I lead a pretty regular life." Now nineteen years old, that life includes attending Oxford, where she studies English literature and stars in many student theater productions. "I should be writing an essay right now," she jokes. "No, I've sort of been doing bits and pieces [of acting] since I was about seven, so it's always been a routine for me, studying in the evenings or during lunch breaks or whenever I can. I've always been really determined about juggling the two, and I think if it's something that you want to do, you manage it. "So while I'm in Oxford I'm doing a lot of student drama, and when I'm not I hope to do some stuff during the holidays, so I'm just going to see how it goes, and try to keep both up for as long as possible. I'm doing Spring Awakening in a couple of weeks – not the musical version, because I just can't sing for toffee, but the play." She can't "sing for toffee"? Add "hilariously British" to her list of disarming qualities. Narnia readers might remember that Prince Caspian is the last book to feature all four Pevensie siblings. The next film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will include the two youngest, Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy (Georgie Henley), but this is the last we'll see of Susan and eldest Peter (William Moseley). "Will and I were both sad, our last days on set," Popplewell says. "It's been a big long journey, for both of us, purely for the amount of time that it's taken up, let alone what has happened. But, at the same time, I don't think I would gain a lot, or the audience would gain a lot, from me playing the same character seven times, for seven months each time. I'm sad to go, but at the same time I'm happy to move on. I finished shooting in September and I started Oxford in October, and |
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