Thanks for your reply ...in respect of Tonys (Rynelf) role in the film .... it is a SMALL role ... no doubt... small amount of dialogue, but a lot of action (no I don't mean fights) ... but it is a role. I do understand your arguments for what you post and how you go about your discussions. I suppose to these people (The actors) ... its careers that are being discussed .. and they are sensitive to how they are portrayed.... I am defensive of ALL of them, as I know how hard they work to get where they are in a tough industry. It's important to them at a professional level that correct recognition for what they do is communicated .... An actor with small role in something wouldn't want a web search to indicate that it was a non speaking role ... again thank you for responding.

The correct term for actors in a film who have smaller roles is "Support Actors" or "Supporting cast" ....

Thank you for the education and bearing with us, sailor. Most helpful!

I am defensive of ALL of them, as I know how hard they work to get where they are in a tough industry. It's important to them at a professional level that correct recognition for what they do is communicated .... An actor with small role in something wouldn't want a web search to indicate that it was a non speaking role ... again thank you for responding.

Indeed, not many make it to the level that Tony Nixon is at; not many make it at all in that industry. I really wish him the best and hope that his portrayal of Rynelf will be much discussed here on NarniaWeb and elsewhere.

The correct term for actors in a film who have smaller roles is "Support Actors" or "Supporting cast" .... these people may have fewer lines, but they support the lead cast. Often out of frame giving an eye line to the leads and still acting so that the person in frame has something to work off of.

I've been noticing recently just how important a supporting cast is to a film or TV show. At the end of an hour long episode of an old TV series I watched on DVD recently, there were up to 15-19 more names after the regular cast members. Some were guest stars but most were supporting roles.

You just realize that you couldn't do the show with just the cast regulars and even a few guest stars. You really need those smaller but important supporting roles to fill out and complete the story.

And I do hope that Rynelf gets to do that very nice/cool/neat monologue/speech.

Sailor, as I said to Tony's facebook page recently, any negative comments are likely to have been in the 'comments on news items' rather than the actual forum threads here.
Any information you can give us about Tony's role is welcome, although we will understand if you can't due to contractual reasons!

It's also worth noting that some of the info we have received has been terse notes from agency sites, describing a certain actor's role in the film as "extra" or "extra sailor" etc. We don't always know how to interpret that correctly. Presumably they are part of the supporting cast, not just a crowd (I come from the land where half the population was extras for LOTR!! )

Tony Nixon Interview Series on Facebook. He gives some good insight to working as an actor and on a big-budget movie. A great, fun read.

I am friends with the real Tony Nixon on Facebook!

Me too! He seems so nice and funny.

Just a little bit of a fun fact, I know him in person

I met his daughter at a party and we became friends, and one day her dad came to pick her up from a trip to the shops, who was it but Mr Nixon himself!

I was a little bit like "OH MY, ITS, WHAT, I mean, wow, lovely to meet you!"

There is no such thing as a "named extra". In another post someone mentioned another actor as an "extra with a few lines"... again no such thing.
Extras have non speaking roles .... however I think it's important to point out that the extras in this film played a significant role and worked darn hard for 12 to 14 hours per day in often uncomfortable conditions. To refer to them as "Only" extras or "Merel"y extras is unkind and demeaning .... Without this bunch of very hard working (and talented) people the Dawn Treader would have no crew! As for Tony Nixons resume .... I happen to know Tony ... and although his film credits may be few ... he has worked for over 20 years as an actor in film TV and mostly live performance ... this has taken him all over the world and he is much sought after, and has excellent reviews. Any actor in this film (with one line or 50) had to audition ... each of the minor roles was contested for nationally in Australia .... Each actor was selected by Michael Apted personally for the role. I think Mr Nixon would be quite offended by your remarks. I know for a fact that many of the cast members found posts on this site to be unhelpful in the process of making the film. The little girl playing Gael had to be protected from reading some of the stuff written about her. By all means speculate away on the plot lines ... but please don't make ill informed comment about the individuals (Actors) that you know little or nothing about. YES they do read this!! ....come on folks .... what would Aslan do .. (WWAD?)
Please lighten up guys ... and remember you are talking about real people with real feelings. Not one person on this film .... cast, crew and extras gave less than 200% of all they had.... and what they had was great!

Aw that is so sad that Arabella had to be protected from seeing the posts written about her. Poor girl! I feel bad for her! I look forward to seeing Tony Nixon. THey worked hard, according to what he said on Facebook.

After listening to Tony Nixon's interview, I think movie Rynelf is in pretty good hands. Glad to know that though the amount of dialog may not be great, the screen time may make up for that a bit.

Nice that he mentioned the Sea Serpent scene also. (And in the singular.)

Other props — there is another prop but I can’t tell you.

Can't wait to see that, either.

That review was certainly pretty interesting. It sounds like Mr. Nixon has a good sense of humor. I wish we could have learned some things of a more spoilery nature, but I didn't expect that to be the case. He did give some great reassurance about the ending. And it was nice to learn all that behind-the-scenes stuff; CGI work, costume tidbits and accent details. So Fox was behind the great accent switcharoo!

Ditto on the "Other prop", GlimGlum! What on earth could it be? *Speculating*
Thanks Pshawn and Tony Nixon for the interview!