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WILLIAM
MOSELEY reprises his role as Narnia’s High King, Peter,
who returns to the enchanted land with his three
siblings to help Prince Caspian save Narnia from tyranny
under the reign of the evil King Miraz, in The
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The sequel
represents Peter’s final appearance in the series.
Moseley,
now 21 years old, had his first motion picture starring
role in the first Narnia film, The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe, for which he earned nominations
for the Saturn and Young Artists Awards.
The
young actor says his anticipation and anxiety to get
back in front of the movie cameras echoed what his
character Peter endured in the time between his 15-year
reign of Narnia and his return to the kingdom in the new
story. Just like his character, the handsome British
native returned to secondary school.
“Finishing the first film was an amazing experience,”
Moseley says. “Then it was all taken away. Even though I
didn’t react the same way Peter does, I can really
understand how he feels.”
Once the
senior sibling returns to Narnia, “he becomes slightly
arrogant,” the actor notes of his character. “There’s
fighting within the group. Peter cannot accept Caspian.
His plans are not set from his heart, but from his ego.
Even when he doubts himself, he still is too stubborn to
back down and accept that he might be wrong. And
ultimately, he pays the highest price.”
In the
process, Moseley says, his character becomes a man.
“When he gets back to Narnia, it’s 1,300 years later and
people don’t know he’s a high king. They just see a boy.
Peter has to prove who he is to the Narnians.”
“When we
cast William as Peter, he was just 15 and had never done
anything like this before,” director Andrew Adamson
notes. “William’s transformation was not dissimilar to
that of his character Peter in the story, from this
17-year-old boy into a young man. I don’t think he’d
even been on a movie set before. He was just this really
great kid you wanted to be your big brother. And now,
William has turned out to be a handsome and capable
young man.”
Moseley
believes moviegoers will see the Pevensies in a new
light in Prince Caspian. “Peter and Susan, especially.
These two had challenges in the first film, but nothing
on this level. I think audiences will be surprised and
engaged by both the physical battles and the emotional
battles endured by our characters.”
“They’ve
all grown up really well,” Adamson says, sounding like a
proud parent of the young actors portraying the Pevensie
clan. “A large reason for me to do this again was
working with the same children. There is this wonderful
relationship between the kids, how they became a family
and how they let us become a part of that family.
There’s change in very positive ways in growing up, but
I’d like to say the movie didn’t change who they are,
which I’m really happy about.”
Opening
soon across the
Philippines,
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is
distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
International through Columbia Pictures. |
