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 The night before we interviewed Popplewell was actually the first time she was able to see Prince Caspian in its completion. "I was very excited and nervous to see it," she says. "I need to watch it again so I can see it without my head going, 'Oh, this day we were here, and in that scene we were here...' and just watch it as a movie. But I was really satisfied." Part of that satisfaction has to do with how Susan has grown over the course of the two films. "I think in the first film, Susan is not very likable, because she's the one saying, 'Well hold on, this doesn't make any sense,'" Popplewell says. "And I think a lot of people forget that if you're treating it at all realistically, then when you're plunged into the world of Narnia, someone is going to stand up and say, 'Well hang on a minute.' And she's still that way this time around, she's asking questions and posing problems, but I think she's a lot more human this time and people can see where she's coming from." Helping in that department is a subtle little subplot about some romantic affectations that may or may not exist between her and the titular prince, played by Ben Barnes. Suffice to say that a kiss is involved. "I thought it was going to be really awkward," Popplewell says, "but it wasn't at all...There was no practice whatsoever. We filmed it right at the end of the shoot, so we did it after knowing each other for six months already, and it just felt like, 'Okay, this is something we're going to do on set.'" But while in the first movie Susan was a somewhat maternal character and in Caspian she has a more romantic role, that doesn't mean she isn't an ace shot with a bow and arrow. Prince Caspian features a lot more action than the first film, much of it involving Susan alongside Peter and Edmund. Unlike her character, "I'm not a perfect archer," Popplewell says, though she does add that she went through plenty of training to get a good feel for the weapon. "They made me look good with CGI arrows and things. I really enjoyed knowing how it's done, but then you have to alter it in order to fit cameras under your arms and over your head and things like that. But the nice thing about this movie is that I got to use the arrows a bit more creatively." In fact, Popplewell seems to downright relish those moments. "We were talking about the death count after we saw the film last night, and obviously it's a PG film so you don't see a lot of people dying, or you don't see a lot of blood at least, but ... |
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