Skandar Keynes
Skandar Keynes (born Alexander Amin Casper Keynes;
5 September 1991) is a British actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund
Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film series since 2005. He has appeared in
all three installments, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian
and most recently The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released on 10
December 2010.
Career
Keynes
auditioned for the role of Edmund Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe at the same time as he auditioned for the role of Simon Brown in Nanny
McPhee, winning the former while losing the latter to Thomas Sangster. His
voice changed, due to puberty, during the filming of The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe, so the director used his sister Soumaya to voice some of his
lines in the movie.
He reprised
his role as Edmund in Prince Caspian, released 16 May 2008. Keynes told an
interviewer, who praised him for becoming "an action hero," that he
"felt so cheated because one of my very first action scenes was the very
beginning of the battle when I run and I jump off a block and get on a horse as
it's going by. On one take I missed the horse. I basically didn't manage to
land on it but I managed to hold on and I was flung around and almost smacked
into one of those stone columns. I slammed on the ground and bruised my heel so
badly that I couldn't walk on it and it was throbbing constantly. I had to do
the rest of the battle with a bruised heel. Sometimes if you watch my running
it looks a bit odd; I wonder if other people notice it or if it's just me
noticing! I had to do a lot of that sequence high on pain medication!"
They also discussed his relationships with the other cast and crew members.
He starred
again as Edmund in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third installment of The
Chronicles of Narnia film series. Filming began in July 2009, and finished in
December of the same year. The film was released on 10 December 2010 in Britain
and the US. In preparation for this film, Keynes studied to earn his
Professional Association of Diving Instructors license for underwater scenes.
Keynes is an
atheist.
Keynes
attended the Anna Scher Theatre School from 2000 to 2005, having attended
Thornhill Primary School[disambiguation needed] from 1996–2002. He attended the
all-boys City of London School from 2005. There he wrote as a film critic for
the review section of The Citizen, the City of London School weekly school
newspaper. He sat his GCSEs in May and June 2008 and started Sixth Form and his
first year of his A-level studies the following September. He studied biology,
chemistry, maths, further maths and history at A-level. In October 2010 he
began his degree in Arabic and Middle Eastern History at Pembroke College,
Cambridge.
He is a fan of English football club Arsenal.
He and his
family have visited Marjeyoun since he was a child. "We've been coming
every year to Lebanon and visiting Marjeyoun despite the political situation. I
was here in 1996 during Operation Grapes of Wrath. I was four at the time and I
had no concept that it was war," Keynes told a reporter. "I remember
when the gravity of the situation dawned on me. It was during the 2006 July
war, I was 14 then… but it didn't really shake my view of Lebanon as
effectively a second home, a place where I come to and I have family."
Keynes explains that he is cognizant of the political situation:
"And I
understand that in part the law that a mother cannot pass her nationality to
her children is tied up with the Palestinian issue, and sometimes I wonder who
I am to complain when there are people who have been born and brought up in
Lebanon, who speak Arabic better than I ever will and can't get Lebanese
citizenship... I would like to see the law changed and would like to be able to
be considered Lebanese by the Lebanese government. When I arrive at the
airport, I would like to show a Lebanese passport, I would like to go to my
[family's] house without having to get permission, but part of me feels that I
have to put my hands up in the air and say, 'Well, what I want is not what I'm
going to get,' and I don't know how or to what extent I should resign myself to
the fact that I'm not Lebanese as far as they are concerned."
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