'It's such great escapism and an enormous, exciting scale. 'Once you sit opposite one of the greats like Jeff Bridges and they pick you to be involved, there's absolute zero reason to think pragmatically about am I going to get stuck doing these movies for always,' Barnes says. However, he found the power of the Dude to be compelling and saw a project with a lot of imagination.

'He's the Dude and he's always going to look at things from a very curious angle.'īarnes admits he had 'absolutely no intention' of doing movies with swords and creatures after his two Narnia films, Prince Caspian (2008) and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). 'You're always going to get that level of wryness in his characters and in his self-effacing approach to things,' he says of the Oscar-winning actor. And as Gregory, Bridges is 'awesome,' says Barnes. 'It's interesting to find those little character traits,' Barnes says, 'the exasperation at being treated like a servant and the wide-eyed wondering of discovering this whole new world and all the magic and mystery and danger that goes along with that.'Ī relationship develops between Tom and Gregory that's somewhere between a buddy movie and a father-son movie. Plus, the one man who can advise him - Gregory - puts up brick walls at every turn. Tom has feelings for Alice Deane (Alicia Vikander) who's the niece of a witch, so he's not sure what to do. His character has more dilemmas as Seventh Son develops. 'He isn't quite sure whether he's happy about it, so it's an interesting dichotomy between wanting something more but being stuck with this man who doesn't seem to appreciate him in that quite traditional style of men, where you're not quite sure if you love him or hate him.'

Then Master Gregory turns up, and Tom is 'quite unceremoniously bought by this grumbling drunken witch hunter,' Barnes says. Tom feels he's meant for something more in the world than pig farming but has a very close bond with his mother and doesn't quite know how to go about finding adventure.

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