I tell you, something happens to the minds of people in the cinema business. They become infected with a vandal's attitude, like a bratty kid who draws moustaches on paintings of women; they WANT to ruin things just because they can.
But getting back to NARNIAN subject matter: I truly hope that Georgie Hensley WILL get more screen roles in the future. By now, she is just a few years away from being a fully-bloomed spectacular beauty.
Peter Dinklage played Trumpkin, but Balin was portrayed by Ken Scott. Not the same actor. I don't think they actually did cast little people for the roles of dwarfs in The Hobbit.
However, post-Narnia, Georgie Henley appears in 2 movies, yet to be released, Perfect Sisters and The Sisterhood of Night
I enjoyed Georgie as young Jane Eyre (2006) as well...
Hmm. Seems to be a trend in Hollywood against using little people as dwarves, since little people weren't cast as dwarves in Snow White and the Huntsman either. Interesting development.
The actor cast as Thorin did very well indeed. It wasn't his fault that, OUT OF NOWHERE, Peter Jackson got the lame-brained idea to put Thorin in a fight with Azog at the climax of the first movie, AND THEN HAVE HIM LOSE PATHETICALLY. That was so utterly uncalled for, I can scarcely utter or call it! Completely unnecessary. They could have at least allowed Thorin to kill Azog's Warg, similarly to Eowyn killing the Witch-King's flying creature, and THEN had Azog knock Thorin down from behind. They could still have had Thorin need help, AND have left Azog alive and threatening for the later films, WITHOUT making Thorin look blankety-blank ridiculous!
I tell you, something happens to the minds of people in the cinema business. They become infected with a vandal's attitude, like a bratty kid who draws moustaches on paintings of women; they WANT to ruin things just because they can.