And then your name is worth this, and therefore, this job that you’ve auditioned hard for and met with the director of and felt like you’ve got on famously with is going to go to this other person who didn’t audition. “And then you do it a little indie film that you think has an interesting ending, and nobody sees it. “It’s impossible not to get caught up in the game of your name is worth this after having done ‘Narnia,'” he said. While “Seventh Son” stumbled through corporate purgatory, all that breathless enthusiasm for Barnes’ star potential began to evaporate.
“I wonder whether that’s what it should have been, really.”
“My character was 13, and it was more of a coming of age story,” Barnes said with a sigh. Two years later, the same fate befell the ’80s rock comedy “Killing Bono,” starring Barnes as the high school classmate of the U2 frontman. to such a poor reception that it never received theatrical distribution in the U.S. Between the two “Narnia” films, he starred in “Dorian Gray,” an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated gothic novel with Colin Firth and Ben Chaplin that premiered in the U.K. To torture this metaphor even further, it took hitting a few more rough waves before Barnes says he realized there was an ocean. “I’ve found that this particular metaphor has - oh no, I’m going to say this water metaphor has held water, that’s bad! But you’re going to have to learn to surf.” “It took me a little time to understand that these are waves,” he said. Take how Barnes talks about the hard-won perspective he’s come to have about the trajectory - or lack thereof - of his career. His natural speaking voice is pitched half an octave higher from the brooding baritone he deploys on “Shadow and Bone,” and his words often tumble out of him so rapidly, it’s like listening to his brain think in real time. In person - or, at least, over Zoom - Barnes is nothing like the calculating men of action he’s often been called upon to play. Barnes, however, now sees things much differently.
CAST OF SHADOW AND BONE NETFLIX SERIES
But “Shadow and Bone” - with a sweeping story of good and evil developed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer (“Arrival”) - represents an opportunity the actor hasn’t experienced for more than a decade: A central, showcase character on a series with the potential to become the global sensation “Narnia” wasn’t.Ī different actor might be preparing themselves to leap back onto that escalator hoping to arrive at the level of a Leo or a Brad - or perhaps an Emilia Clarke.
CAST OF SHADOW AND BONE NETFLIX TV
Since then, Barnes has sustained a career largely oscillating between tiny indie films and supporting roles on sci-fi/fantasy TV series, most recently on HBO’s “Westworld” (as a louche and cruel billionaire’s son) and Netflix’s “The Punisher” (as a tortured and ruthless villain). Lewis’ beloved book series, the Narnia film franchise was quietly put to bed. While not a disaster, it was also apparently not enough to keep going: Despite several titles remaining within C.S. “Narnia” rights holder Walden Media turned to 20th Century Fox for the follow-up, 2010’s “Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” but that film also foundered, with $416 million globally. Instead, “Prince Caspian” underperformed so drastically - grossing $420 million globally in comparison to the $745 million global take of its predecessor, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” - that Disney abandoned the franchise.
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