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The Official Thread for Polly -- [placeholder for name here]

fantasia
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The prodution is looking for two children, a boy and a girl, to portray characters that are 10 or 11 years old. At this stage, the description does not specify any particular physical characteristics for the roles, such as height or hair color. Filming and rehearsals are scheduled to take place in the UK from June through Christmas 2025.

https://www.narniaweb.com/2025/01/netflixs-narnia-begins-casting-search-for-two-lead-child-actors/

...and with that, we are assuming that 'The Magician's Nephew' is the first movie being made, so I'm going to go ahead and start a couple new threads for the lead child actors in the movies. Once the casting announcement has been made, we can amend this thread title. But until we have that news (they're only just now starting the casting process) I wanted to go ahead and open this thread to see if any of you have any ideas for a 10-11 year old actress from the UK that might be a good fit for Polly? I admit that I'm out of the loop when it comes to children this young, plus (if I can get my wish) it will be a fresh face that hasn't been seen before. But it's always fun to speculate. Smile  

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Topic starter Posted : January 31, 2025 4:03 pm
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Eustace
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Wolf man the remake for 2025 has a ten year old UK actress called Matilda Firth. Since, the film is not really out yet, I have no real idea of her talent. But, she is definitely a possibility. 

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12609181/

 

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Posted : January 31, 2025 7:15 pm
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@eustace she's delightful! Only just 10, been in lots of films already, confident and reminds me of Georgie at that age. In fact her home city of Leeds isn't far from Ilkey where Georgie comes from!  But the interview clip I just saw tells us she's got two more films lined up, so I daresay she won't be working on Narnia.

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Posted : February 1, 2025 3:39 am
icarus
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As per my Digory suggestion, I'll have to look towards the film 'Blitz' (2024) as a point of reference... Not just because of the Nina Gold connection, but also because it's one of the most recent films I've seen with significant child roles, and if you go back much further than 2024 you tend find all the kids have now aged-out of contention.

Anyway, there is one girl in that film who gets a short but prominent couple of lines, and her name is Thea Achillea. Not a lot to go off in the short scene. but again i felt she looked confident and gave good energy, so definitely a good starting point.

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm9634463/

Anyway, the thing I thought most interesting, is that not only does she actually have a very well managed Social Media presence, but also that she actually did a photoshoot back in 2023 as Lucy Pevensie, and in late 2024 she re-posted it, stating how excited she was about the prospect of potentially applying for a role in Greta Gerwig's film.

https://x.com/TheaAchillea?t=-r9g1v7I8jdS6itCm_YF5A&s=09

https://www.instagram.com/thea.achillea?igsh=cnlydXlmMDVrMGFj

She's still only 10 years old, so within the age bracket required, and therefore id say it's almost guaranteed she would be applying. Plus given that Nina Gold already cast her in a minor role for Blitz,. she'd probably already be on her radar anyway.

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Posted : February 1, 2025 12:27 pm
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