Tom's Blog: Post 21 - Working from a script (Casting and Characters)

There are only two characters in the scene that we are working on, they are Lucy Pevensie and Mr Tumnus.

Lucy : She is the youngest of the four Pevensie children, is the most level headed and wise, while also maintaining her child-like qualities. She is very trusting and immediately knows that Mr Tumnus is a good, reliable friend even though he admits that he was going to kidnap her. In this specific scene we particularly see her vulnerability and naivety as at only 8 years old she wonders off into a different world without fears or worries that a lot of other children would experience at her age. In the short scene that we look at, we get to see her bravery and curiosity as she discovers Narnia and greets Mr Tumnus.

Mr Tumnus : He is the first Narnian Lucy meets is Mr Tumnus who is a faun, which means he is half-man above his waist with curly, dark hair, a small beard and reddish skin, and half-goat below his waist, with hooves and thick, glossy fur. He is a bit shy when Lucy first meets him but his curiosity means he has to introduce himself to her. He quickly gains Lucy's trust so we get to see very quickly how he is responsible and maybe caring, even if he is very confused about what he is. To him, Lucy is a mysterious creature, but she sees him the same way which is portrayed quite comedically in this scene. When he is first introduce, although Lucy trusts him almost immediately, the audience find it harder because he is a stranger to Lucy and has invited her to his house within minutes of their introducing each other.

These are the parts of the script that we decided to use for the audition :

We first watched the scene in the original film to try and get a better understanding of the characters and their personalities. This helped us with the casting because we knew what we were looking for and we could therefore choose who we wanted to play the parts. We decided on 3 people for both of the characters, that we wanted to audition and then looked back at the tapes and chose the cast. We decided quite quickly because we felt it was obvious who should have each role, so we ended up choosing Isabel to play Lucy, and Raygen to play Mr Tumnus. We chose Isabel because we thought that her audition was amazing and that the way she portrayed the character and her qualities were very similar to the original film. We decided to use Raygen because again we felt that the audition went well and when put together, they worked well.

Casting headshots and auditions for the role of Lucy Pevensie