《道林·格雷》幕后采访

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“Ben is by far the best Dorian that there’s ever been,” he states. “He has got much more complexity, partly in what he has been given in the script, but he also has a very interesting quality. He is clearly very beautiful and he has also got these very, very dark eyes. The pupils are about as black as anyone’s I have ever seen.”
In person, Barnes is indeed blessed with fine looks and rather enigmatic peepers, although today he’s not quite as chipper as he can be; he only landed back in the UK the previous day, having just finished a gruelling human drama in Boston, and tomorrow he’s set to step onto a Narnia-bound plane. His debut as the eponymous royal in the second Narnia movie, 2008’s Prince Caspian, helped the film to rack up over $400 million at the box office, and he will now reprise the role in the adaptation of Lewis’s third book in the series, The Voyage of the Dawntreader.
“There are some big pitched battles in this one, swords and action,” he reveals when pondering his forthcoming adventure, “although this film is more about magic, creatures and discovery. I am looking forward to seeing Caspian a few years later, as a king, playing a character that isn’t so vulnerable and fragile this time around. And playing a king, I think that has to be pretty cool. The king is in charge, for a start, although then the kids turn up and they kind of piss on his bonfire a bit!
“But I am looking forward to it. After all, as a kid you dream of wielding swords in a fantasy adventure.” He smiles. “I definitely didn’t grow up wanting to play a young dad, with a child in a coma, searching for the answers!” The role of a young dad searching for the answers comes courtesy of the film he’s just completed in Boston, which carries the temporary title of Valediction. “It has a very adult theme and I am playing my own age for the first time ever,” says Barnes, “a 28-year-old man with a daughter. It felt like a lot of films that I have loved but also didn’t feel like anything I have read in a long time. It’s hard to describe. How would describe The Three Colours Blue or Blue Velvet or Momento? They are hard to pigeonhole. They are films about people. It is certainly the most real film I have done, it’s my second contemporary film, and it just kind of screamed at me to come and do it.”
His first contemporary film was Bigga Than Ben, an indie offering released in 2008, not long after he’d appeared in Matthew Vaughn’s grandiose fairy-tale, Stardust. His breakthrough, however, came with Prince Caspian and he followed that with the Noel Coward adaptation Easy Virtue.
“I don’t believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff,” says, although he caused some controversy in thespian circles when he controversially quit The History Boys at the National Theatre to take the role of Caspian. “I think because of the way I got involved in Prince Caspian, people think I am a crazy, ambitious person, but it is not that at all. I just want to work on this level ” I know how lucky I am to be able to work on small independent films and big studio productions like Narnia.”
His profile is certainly on the rise, and his natural good looks and charm have endeared him to a burgeoning legion of female fans. Does he enjoy the attention? “People don’t recognize me, actually,” he concedes. “Maybe it’s because I have my hair back or have a beard or, or maybe because or because I am not that popular!
“People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week. For the most part people probably have only seen me in one or two films.” As he embarks on his second voyage to Narnia, and his seventh film in total, that is surely set to change.


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