What does Prince Caspian look like?

[Cyon Corell]

It's prolly already been covered, but seriously vat dust he luk like? Brown hair, blonde hair? Vat hare color? Vat eye color? Extremely fair skinned or slightly tan? Just usin dis for auditionin purposes. I readin deh book now. . . at chapter 13 actually. . . and haven't got a clear physical description yet. Thanks in advance for any help rendered.

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Cyon Corell

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[Lucy_QueenofNarnia]

well, it says in the books that he is just a little older than Peter, he had blond hair (I can't really help you with how blond/how light brown, and I don't think that will matter too much).

[Cyon Corell]

So he's bonde throughout the book or is it only when he's younger? I seen a picture of him where he's sitting in full armor with his head bent and he has medium brown hair. Is this a true portrayal of the older Prince Caspian? Thanks for your help.

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Cyon Corell

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[Aravis Kenobi]

We probably will never know what exact color his hair will be. Remember, when you start growing older, as getting out of the teenage years, your hair starts to darken. Like mine, mine used to not be as dark as it is now, but when I was younger, it was lighter. Your hair color changes as you grow up. We'll just have to trust what C.S. Lewis has already described in the book, and hopefully, Andrew Adamson will stay true to that. AS for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, they will probably darken Caspian's hair a little since it's three years after PC.

[Cyon Corell]

Yo!

Thanks for the assists, but I'm still left questioning though within a far more attuned range due to your well-appreciated help. The central reason I'm still wondering is 'cause (besides the whole auditioning thing), at the end of the Prince Caspian novel (I just finished it) the origins of the Telmarines are described by Aslan. According to the description they would have a mixed Northern European (most likely Germanic [Anglo-Saxon]), Polynesian appearance. If the casting director(s) go according to the book, this would most likely eliminate the majority of any likelihood of Caspian being a blonde. I'm half Hellenic half Germanic in ancestry, so this really plagues me, as issues go. That's really why I keep asking the question of what he (in this case, most likely) would look like, assuming the casting director(s) are truly attempting to stay close to the spirit and appearance of C.S. Lewis' books and their respective characters. Yet I still here speculations that place Caspian somewhere between white-blond and sandy-brown. So what is most likely when it comes to his appearance?

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Cyon Corell

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[PeterC]

I can't wait too see this movie!!!!

[happilyeverrandom]

White-blond, sandy brown...that's sounds pretty specific. Polynesians usually have a darker color of skin ....And did Prince Caspian REALLY say Caspian was blonde??
Well, who knows how specific Andrew wants the person to play Caspian to look like? All we know is that he'll be...blonde.

[Lucy_QueenofNarnia]

Honestly, I don't think the casting people are going to care if your hair is white blonde or sandy brown :D they'll care more about acting abilities. I have a feeling there really isn't definite answer, and the movie people have a right to some freedom when it comes to this if CS Lewis wasn't incredibly detailed. After all, Lucy is a blonde in the books, even as she grows older, but Lucy in LWW has dark brown hair but she was perfect :)

But it should be interesting to see if they go with a blonde look or something different...

[LifeMaiden]

A long time ago I had the old version of Prince Caspian as a kid though I never read it...and on the cover, Prince C's hair was dark. When I first came to this forum I thought, yeah, he should have dark hair and fair skin.

But now thinking about the mix that the Telmarines are by race ( supposedly Anglo pirates mixing with the native women on the island) I think that nearly all of their Polynesian blood must be gone. It's sort of like people here in America who are like, 1/64th American Indian but of course look totally white.

I now think Prince Caspian would have tan skin from being outdoors, and blondish hair and blue eyes.

[Cyon Corell]

Well, any mix between Northern European genetics and say Polynesian genetics would most likely eliminate the gene for blond hair (as it is a RECESSIVE GENE). So I'd expect that Caspian would have dark hair. This also works for skin tone. Greater melanin = darker skin, low melanin = fair skin. The gene for dark skin tone is DOMINANT over the gene for fair skin. Thus (assuming the pirates were originally blonde or carried the recessive blond gene or fair skin gene) their descendants by native women (who would have outnumbered them, being the natives) we would see that the male-introduced genetics of Northern European origin would prolly have died out (gone underground or disappeared completely from the phenotype) within the first few generations. So I'm seeing the liklihood of a flaxen, fair skinned Caspian as being very unlikely. But, jah know the casting directors could take an artistic license and give him blue hair and purple skin or somefin like dat. It's just that since I'm half Hellenic, half Germanic, I'm kinda like (at least in my imagined version of the Telmarines) Caspian (if we follow the story of his race's origins to their proper conclusion (realistically speaking). I geuss I could be called Prince Caspain Wannabe 2, in that case, heh, heh :D . But VODT describes him as 'golden haired' vich kinda ticks meh off, due to the story at the end of Prince Caspian aboot the Telmarines. So.......... geuss dat's it....fur now.

See ya on the flipside,

Cyon Corell

[LifeMaiden]

Um, well, I don't put as much thought into this kind of thing regarding genetics as you do. LOL If they gave Prince Caspian purple hair and blue skin I don't think many of us would want to see that movie.

[ABright5]

Um, well, I don't put as much thought into this kind of thing regarding genetics as you do. LOL If they gave Prince Caspian purple hair and blue skin I don't think many of us would want to see that movie.
You mean to say you wouldn't watch it?
I'd go to see it just for that!
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Firstly, he is "Golden headed" (pg 14 - Lions publication, VDT)

Secondly, if you are thinking of dying your hair for the auditions, I would strongly reccomend against doing it.
Just turn up as yourself.
For all means, tell them that, if it was required of you, you would be willing to dye your hair if that's the way they want caspian, but if 2000 blonds turn up, and only 20 of them are natural blond, they won't be impressed.

As Andrew said, they aren't looking for the characters in the book, they are looking for personalities, who have the "ability to act"

[LifeMaiden]

[QUOTE=ABright5]You mean to say you wouldn't watch it?
I'd go to see it just for that!
http://www.madjbright.co.uk/Alex/Lol.dat

You're joking, right?

[QueenSusanofNarnia]

Hm..Caspian...
Hair: Blonde (same color as Will's)
Eyes: Brown
Skin: A bit tan, not too much, but not too fair.
Height: 5'4 (PC); 5'6 (VotDT)
Hot or not?: Totally hot!!!

[♣Teh Deviant♣]

White-blond, sandy brown...that's sounds pretty specific. Polynesians usually have a darker color of skin ....And did Prince Caspian REALLY say Caspian was blonde??
Well, who knows how specific Andrew wants the person to play Caspian to look like? All we know is that he'll be...blonde.

Not really. Edmund was blonde in the book, and skandar has like almost jet-black hair. :rolleyes: Thank gawd for that.

[jesuschick]

caspian?
HOTT!!!!!!

[LifeMaiden]

Not really. Edmund was blonde in the book, and skandar has like almost jet-black hair. :rolleyes: Thank gawd for that.


True, true. For some reason I can't ever picture Edmund with blond hair. The jet black hair goes with his personality in the movie....that bad boy thing LOL.

So Caspian has got to be blond.

[jonathanruiz209]

yea isnt he blond in the book? but i honestly dont think it matters, i actually pictured him dark haired in my imagination when i read it, although i already knew he was blond..i know weird..but like lucy in the film is a lil brunette and in the book, well in one of the ones she appears, shes described as golden haired or something, but it doesnt matter, same with the dudleys boy in hp, hes blond in the book but brunette in the film..it doesnt matter, as long as they can put on the role...(im actually hoping this is a black haired pc)

[QueenSusanofNarnia]

yeah i got such a shcok watching BBC LWW! Edmund w/ reddish-blonde hair.....egads.

[Ann Pierce]

the following is from a doug gresham interview from the lions call which would explain looking for a white english/european looking boy for caspian


Q: If the Telmarines are descended from South Seas pirates, there would likely be a good deal of Chinese in their lineage, though there were certainly some Europeans taking advantage of piracy in that area as well. And the pirates married islanders, who would also have been dark. How then is Caspian fair haired? Or did they intermarry with Archenlanders?

A: Many if not most pirates in the South Seas at the time of which Jack writes were in fact English or Dutch Privateers.

[-x-emo emz-x-]

a boy in my school ( by the way i'm not lying cos i'm new ) has been called up 2 play caspian by pippa hall. His name is nick pack! :) and I know him! :) and he's leaving to shoot the film at the end of the holidayz :)

[Cyon Corell]

Nice try, but casting doesn't start till September, at least according to the most reliable sources. By the way, is he blonde or what? Ya almost had me there.

Demetrios Corell

[sailndwntrder]

i always pictured him as a blonde. someone mentioned that one of the books described him as golden haired in VDT, so that is probably why i think that. in the bbc versions, the boy is blonde too so i just always pictured him that way.
as for skin tone, i think he should be fair and more European looking. the only people in the narnia books who were not fair were those from Calormen. Specifically, in the Horse and his boy, Shasta is much more fair then his adopted father, which is one way we know that he is from one of the two more northern countries (narnia and archenland)

[she-elfwarrior19]

in VDT Lucy sees a "golden headed boy" when they were getting on the ship in the beginning. So does that answer the question about his hair?

[Cyon Corell]

Kinda, but Alexander the Great was thought to be 'golden headed' when he was in fact auburn haired. The reason was that when the sun was behind him, the sunlight reflecting off his hair gave him a sort of golden halo (this of course added to the legend of him being the son of Zeus). So there's (at least for me) some confusion :confused: still (Lewis didn't outright say 'blonde', just 'golden-headed', which can be blonde or otherwise).

See ya on the flipside, :cool:

Demetrios Corell

[Adanedhel]

It's prolly already been covered, but seriously vat dust he luk like? Brown hair, blonde hair? Vat hare color? Vat eye color? Extremely fair skinned or slightly tan? Just usin dis for auditionin purposes. I readin deh book now. . . at chapter 13 actually. . . and haven't got a clear physical description yet. Thanks in advance for any help rendered.

See ya on the flipside, :cool:

Cyon Corell

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Student Mage


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He kinda looks like ME!!! I also think that the boy who played him in the BBC version was way too young. He is supposed to be older in VDT, tall and slightly bearded. I think he should be about 16 in Prince Caspian!

[office]

i dont know what he looks like.

[PeterC]

What is he going to look like you ask...?

He is going to be wearing leather coat with sun glasses that have red lenses. He will be wearing a black pirate hat. He will also be wearing combat boots with Camouflage pants with a belt strapped on.

In his coat will be an arsenary of deadly weapons such as daggers, slingshots, arrows and more. He will have a sheath equipped on his back with a sword for quick draw.

Any questions? :D

[Adanedhel]

What is he going to look like you ask...?

He is going to be wearing leather coat with sun glasses that have red lenses. He will be wearing a black pirate hat. He will also be wearing combat boots with Camouflage pants with a belt strapped on.

In his coat will be an arsenary of deadly weapons such as daggers, slingshots, arrows and more. He will have a sheath equipped on his back with a sword for quick draw.

Any questions? :D

I think that is the biggest bull description of Prince Caspian I have ever heard, lol! *Im sitting hear laughing*

[office]

I think that is the biggest bull description of Prince Caspian I have ever heard, lol! *Im sitting hear laughing*
hey dont sware.

[PeterC]

hey dont sware.
He didn't, he was close enough to saying it though.

[Adanedhel]

He didn't, he was close enough to saying it though.

Yeah last time I checked Bull is a male cow with horns. What were you thinking of?

[PeterC]

Yeah last time I checked Bull is a male cow with horns. What were you thinking of?
We can't really tell you that.

Anyways...Has anyone actually looked back in the book to see what he looks like?

[Adanedhel]

We can't really tell you that.

Anyways...Has anyone actually looked back in the book to see what he looks like?

Yeah, I envisioned him from the description as a youth(aged 15-18) , blonde or dirty blonde hair, not too tall, and slim.

[LifeMaiden]

Yeah, I envisioned him from the description as a youth(aged 15-18) , blonde or dirty blonde hair, not too tall, and slim.


Oh my goodness. I just clicked on the link where you posted your picture with your family, PCW. So who should play Prince Caspian?


YOU.

[Adanedhel]

Oh my goodness. I just clicked on the link where you posted your picture with your family, PCW. So who should play Prince Caspian?


YOU.

WEll, what do you think? Could I pull it off?


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g274/emarble17/IntheAirport.jpg

Me in the airport! Im pictured in Blue Polo Shirt.

[Lucy_QueenofNarnia]

DUDE you totally could!!!

Do you live in the US?? If you do, that's a shame, and they should make an exception of the British audition thing. I've never seen you act (obviously) but you're like PERFECT for his role. Seriously. I sincerely hope you get a chance to audition!

[Adanedhel]

DUDE you totally could!!!

Do you live in the US?? If you do, that's a shame, and they should make an exception of the British audition thing. I've never seen you act (obviously) but you're like PERFECT for his role. Seriously. I sincerely hope you get a chance to audition!

HEY thanks. Some people at my school from my High School musical really want me to try out for the part. Yes I live in the states but I have a really good sense of accents.

[QueenSusanofNarnia]

HEY thanks. Some people at my school from my High School musical really want me to try out for the part. Yes I live in the states but I have a really good sense of accents.
dude u r going to audition b/c i say so. so GO!!!!

pretty please? *batts eyes*

[Adanedhel]

dude u r going to audition b/c i say so. so GO!!!!

pretty please? *batts eyes*

For you!!! ANYTHING, lol!

[OnceUponaTime]

I think Caspian has golden hair (which could be anything from dark blonde almost brown, to the color of Jesse Mcartneys hair. As in bleached white. Not that I want him to have bleached hair.)
And Sea green eyes. He should be kind of tanned, but not too much.
In PC (which he was thirteen in by the way) he should be kind of short, maybe 5 foot.
In VDT, (16) maybe, oh I don't know, how tall is a 16 year old?!!!?
He should be slim. and his shoulders shouldn't be too broad, not yet.
He needs to look innocent, terribly innocent, like at the end of VDT, when he almost starts to cry, because Edmund and Lucy have to leave, you should just want to sob your heart out.
Sorry, I'm just in love with Caspian from the book, and if Andrew makes him look really old, or really young, like they did in BBC, or if he makes him like brunnette or something strange, then I will boycot Disney forever!!!!
AND I MEAN IT!

[LifeMaiden]

OnceUponaTime that was a fantastically detailed description there :).


We should probably refrain from saying mean or unflattering things about the gentleman in the pictures ( Jeremy?) because he may actually come to this forum and read things.

[Adanedhel]

OnceUponaTime that was a fantastically detailed description there :).


We should probably refrain from saying mean or unflattering things about the gentleman in the pictures ( Jeremy?) because he may actually come to this forum and read things.

I agree. Thank you for being so mature (because you always are) by ending that bashing.

[CKFreak]

I think Caspian has golden hair (which could be anything from dark blonde almost brown, to the color of Jesse Mcartneys hair. As in bleached white. Not that I want him to have bleached hair.)
And Sea green eyes. He should be kind of tanned, but not too much.
In PC (which he was thirteen in by the way) he should be kind of short, maybe 5 foot.
In VDT, (16) maybe, oh I don't know, how tall is a 16 year old?!!!?
He should be slim. and his shoulders shouldn't be too broad, not yet.
He needs to look innocent, terribly innocent, like at the end of VDT, when he almost starts to cry, because Edmund and Lucy have to leave, you should just want to sob your heart out.
Sorry, I'm just in love with Caspian from the book, and if Andrew makes him look really old, or really young, like they did in BBC, or if he makes him like brunnette or something strange, then I will boycot Disney forever!!!!
AND I MEAN IT!

That's a really good description, but I think his age has to be older since he is supposed to be older than Peter and since they raised all of the kids ages for the movie....it would be weird for Caspian to suddenly be Edmund or Lucy's age...

[princejosh_thehonorable10]

the book did say that when peter looked in he saw a boy about his age, plus he was learning how to fight, and all of these hard subjects, i don't think that he would be as old as lucy, but maybe between edmond and peter, that would work out best, since he does seem to be pretty childish in the book
plus i think he would look like peter and edmond, but a little different, a narnian feel, like ME!