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Thank you once again to Lorna for the following newspaper clippings! The London Evening Standard also has an article on Birdsong today, which includes some brand new portraits. You can view all 3 photos in the gallery!

001 x Mail On Sunday: Live | September 26, 2010
002 x Daily Mail | October 1, 2010
003 x Independent | October 1, 2010

003 x Portraits by Nicky Emmerson for the London Evening Standard

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BBC News has posted a new interview with Ben talking about Birdsong. The article includes a new rehearsal photo, which has been added to the gallery.

“It’s one of about three books ever that’s made me physically weep.”

Ben Barnes adopts a cross-legged position on the bed in the corner of his dressing room in the depths of London’s Comedy Theatre.

It is the final few days of rehearsals for Birdsong – a play based on Sebastian Faulks’s best-selling novel about one man’s journey through the horror of World War I.

On a clothes rail next to Barnes’s bed hangs the freshly-laundered uniform of a British army officer. In the play, he takes the lead role of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman whose story begins in pre-war France in 1910.

“I read the book about five years ago. It was around the time that I was getting serious about being an actor,” says Barnes.

“When you read something like that and the character is in your age range, English with dark hair and dark eyes, you obviously put yourself in that character’s shoes.”

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Many thanks once again to my friend Kate, for the following scans from the October issue of Empire magazine! You can view both articles in the gallery.

010 x Empire Magazine | October

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Many thanks to Alexz for the following article from the August / September issue of One magazine. Also, thank you to my friend Kate for the translation!

What can we expect from the third film?

It’s a much more mature and adult film than the two previous ones. The magical aspect that you all know hasn’t been left out, but The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is an adventure film rather than a pure work of fantasy. Caspian is now the new King of Narnia and, with Edmund and Lucy, he embarks on a great crossing aboard this boat, the Dawn Treader, to find the land of Aslan. So most sequences take place on the sea, which hasn’t been easy to film. In Hollywood, it’s often said that filming on the water is the most painful of all .. I agree! [laughs] But I enjoyed myself very much ..

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