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Ben Barnes interview for Dorian Gray
Ben Barnes plays Prince Caspian in Narnia, but he has taken on a far more challenging and subtle role alongside Colin Firth in a new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
By Will Lawrence
Published: 1:57PM BST 03 Sep 2009
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Link to this video British actor Ben Barnes is developing a habit that might endear him to those with a literary bent. “Or I could be disappointing a lot of people,” he smiles. “That’s the trouble with adapting work by people’s favourite authors. I have gone straight from Alan Bennett to C.S. Lewis to Noel Coward to Oscar Wilde. I seem to be doing them all. Next I’ll be totally butchering Hamlet!”
He’s joking, of course. Next he’ll be returning to Narnia; the day we speak the 28-year-old is about to jet off Down Under to start production on the third chapter in C.S Lewis’s fantasy saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, although audiences will get the chance to see him on screen later this month, when he tackles one of Victorian literature’s most infamous characters, Dorian Gray.
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The Ashes: James Anderson exudes self-belief to get in swingAdapted from Wilde’s once-controversial novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which tells the story of a beautiful young man who trades his soul for eternal youth (the painting ages rather than Gray), the film stands as a rare cinematic adaptation, Albert Lewin’s black-and-white offering back in 1945 proving the best-remembered version. In stark contrast to Lewin’s film, however, the new incarnation veers away from Wilde’s narrative by focusing less on the portrait and more on the man himself, hence the eradication of the picture from the film’s title.
“The book is called The Picture of Dorian Gray and it really is about the picture and the world that swirls around it, the society and the things that happen to Dorian more than the decisions he makes,” explains Barnes, who graduated from Kingston University with a degree in English and Drama. “Oliver wanted to get inside Dorian’s head a little bit more, hence it’s just called Dorian Gray.
“There has been a brilliant film made of it, a sort of a museum piece version made very classically and it was heavily applauded but we wanted to get inside Dorian’s head a little bit more and watch that journey unfold. That was what we were aiming for and, hopefully, achieved. I hope people like the film; nearly everybody I meet says that it’s their favourite book and that I had better not have made a complete hash of it!”
It’s an incredibly challenging role, which requires Barnes to add depth and subtlety to the rather scant original, and yet only the severest critics would suggest that he had makes a complete hash of it. His co-star Colin Firth, who plays the capricious Lord Henry Wotton, has watched a number of stage adaptations and several filmic versions from early last century, and he firmly believes that Barnes delivers the best interpretation that he’s seen.
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Ben Barnes interview for Dorian Gray
Ben Barnes plays Prince Caspian in Narnia, but he has taken on a far more challenging and subtle role alongside Colin Firth in a new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
By Will Lawrence
Published: 1:57PM BST 03 Sep 2009
Comment
[ERROR:UNKNOWN VIDEO EMBED]
Link to this video British actor Ben Barnes is developing a habit that might endear him to those with a literary bent. “Or I could be disappointing a lot of people,” he smiles. “That’s the trouble with adapting work by people’s favourite authors. I have gone straight from Alan Bennett to C.S. Lewis to Noel Coward to Oscar Wilde. I seem to be doing them all. Next I’ll be totally butchering Hamlet!”
He’s joking, of course. Next he’ll be returning to Narnia; the day we speak the 28-year-old is about to jet off Down Under to start production on the third chapter in C.S Lewis’s fantasy saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, although audiences will get the chance to see him on screen later this month, when he tackles one of Victorian literature’s most infamous characters, Dorian Gray.
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The Ashes: James Anderson exudes self-belief to get in swingAdapted from Wilde’s once-controversial novella, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which tells the story of a beautiful young man who trades his soul for eternal youth (the painting ages rather than Gray), the film stands as a rare cinematic adaptation, Albert Lewin’s black-and-white offering back in 1945 proving the best-remembered version. In stark contrast to Lewin’s film, however, the new incarnation veers away from Wilde’s narrative by focusing less on the portrait and more on the man himself, hence the eradication of the picture from the film’s title.
“The book is called The Picture of Dorian Gray and it really is about the picture and the world that swirls around it, the society and the things that happen to Dorian more than the decisions he makes,” explains Barnes, who graduated from Kingston University with a degree in English and Drama. “Oliver wanted to get inside Dorian’s head a little bit more, hence it’s just called Dorian Gray.
“There has been a brilliant film made of it, a sort of a museum piece version made very classically and it was heavily applauded but we wanted to get inside Dorian’s head a little bit more and watch that journey unfold. That was what we were aiming for and, hopefully, achieved. I hope people like the film; nearly everybody I meet says that it’s their favourite book and that I had better not have made a complete hash of it!”
It’s an incredibly challenging role, which requires Barnes to add depth and subtlety to the rather scant original, and yet only the severest critics would suggest that he had makes a complete hash of it. His co-star Colin Firth, who plays the capricious Lord Henry Wotton, has watched a number of stage adaptations and several filmic versions from early last century, and he firmly believes that Barnes delivers the best interpretation that he’s seen.
“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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