{"id":141985,"date":"2023-09-22T11:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=141985"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:11:52","slug":"chronicles-of-narnia-star-unrecognisable-after-quitting-acting-for-a-very-different-career-in-politics-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/tv-movies\/chronicles-of-narnia-star-unrecognisable-after-quitting-acting-for-a-very-different-career-in-politics-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles Of Narnia star unrecognisable after quitting acting for a very different career in politics | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TOP movie star has traded film fame for the drama of British politics.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Skandar Keynes, 32, is known to film boffins as character Edmund Pevensie in the entirety of the Chronicles Of Narnia trilogy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/undated-photo-supplied-walt-disney-3109297.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/aa5be27f-90a3-48ba-94a7-7c5a03f8b14e.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/narnia-cast-look-like-now-670440204.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The movies are adaptations of author C.S.Lewis&#x27; literary work and Skandar plays the character in the trio of flicks, these being The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Prince Caspian and The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.<\/p>\n<p>Edmund was the third of the Pevensie children &#8211; yet the second to enter the stunning surroundings of Narnia.<\/p>\n<p>In the first movie, his character was tricked by the White Witch into betraying his siblings, leading to him eventually being crowned King Of Narnia.<\/p>\n<p>The star&#x27;s acting career began aged nine, while playing a &quot;boy in rags&quot; extra at the Royal Shakespeare Company&#x27;s 2001 production of Macbeth.<\/p>\n<h2><span>read more nineties<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-24060845-1695292035448.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Nineties pop icon unrecognisable three decades after smash hit song<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-24050320-1695225545969.jpg\"><\/p>\n<h3>Legendary nineties film is axed from TV TWICE in huge schedule shake up<\/h3>\n<p>Yet he shot to international acting fame with his first Narnia movie in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claimed he performed all his own stunts &#8211; including sword fighting and horse riding &#8211; and he was awarded a CAMIE accolade for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>After his adventures in Narnia, Skandar starred as himself in a short promotional film for audio story In Freedom&#x27;s Cause.<\/p>\n<p>He had voiced the character Sir Allan Kerr in the 2014 production, yet announced his retirement from acting two years later.<\/p>\n<h2>Most read in Film<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/richard-e-grant-j-sinclair-846124010.jpg\"><\/picture><span>DULCIE PEARCE <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Lesson is beautiful film that will keep you intrigued to the final page<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/german-actress-suzanne-bernert-works-846636756.jpg\"><\/picture><span>LOVE OF HIS LIFE <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>A look at life of Akhil Mishra&#8217;s wife Suzanne Bernert<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/newspress-collage-9142954-1695288256529.jpg\"><\/picture><span>TRAGIC END <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Actor Akhil Mishra dies in kitchen fall after heartbreaking &#8216;health battle&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/JB-COMP-HOLLYWOOD-ADS-1.jpg\"><\/picture><span>AD IT UP <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The reason why Hollywood stars are flocking to UK to film TV adverts revealed<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As reported in gossip website popbitch, the London resident has now switched to a career in politics.<\/p>\n<p>He has worked as a political advisor for the UK Government since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Skandar is following in the family footsteps, with his grandfather previously working as an advisor to a Tunisian president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we recently reported how his Chronicles Of Narnia co-star George Henley is completely unrecognisable 18 years after the movie aired.<\/p>\n<p>Georgie, who played Lucy Pevensie in the classic film, was just 10-years-old when the movie debuted.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s now 28 and still working as an actress \u2013 even going on to star in a one-woman play called Tarantula at the Southwark Playhouse in London last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/film-publicity-image-released-20th-4669002.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/voyage-dawn-treader-5142255.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/georgie-henley-william-mosely-ben-3829872.jpg\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tv\/24081575\/chronicles-of-narnia-edmund-pevensie-unrecognisable-skander-keynes-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TOP movie star has traded film fame for the drama of British politics. 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