After directing the first two Shrek films and then the fantasy hit The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Andrew Adamson has proven he can helm huge Hollywood films. With a three year gap in between The Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe, Admason is back behind the camera for the second Narnia movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which continues to fantasy epic as the Pevensie siblings return to Narnia to battle the forces of evil and the King in an effort to help Prince Caspian claim his rightful place atop the throne.

While doing press for Prince Caspian, Adamson dished the Narnia dirt to journalists about the pressures of making the second movie, the challenges of special effects, the changes of the young cast, and how to balance on-screen blood for a younger audience.

Andrew Adamson on whether the special effects make it harder to finish the film:

"You never finish with the film, you just run out of time, basically [laughs]. It’s true. It’s like the last few weeks of finishing any film are really difficult, because leading up to that point all of the decisions you make have heavy consequences. But in the last few weeks, all of the decisions you make are final and it’s a letting go process - 'Okay, I can’t do anymore. I just have to hope that everyone if happy with it at this point.'"

Adamson on a few of his favorite scenes in Prince Caspian:

"It’s always that question that people ask me. You know, like, ‘Do you have any favorite children?.' You know different scenes for different reasons and it's different every time I watch it. Actually, largely it’s who you watch it with and how the audience responds. I really like Reepicheep, I think he came out very much how I’d hoped. I love the scenes where they’re sucked back into Narnia. I love the scene when the four kids come to the How and the Centaurs do their thing and they’re sort of re-living their coronation. The scenes like that get me on an emotional level. When they go into Aslan’s How and it’s dark and it lights up, that gets me on an emotional level. Then I like the night raid, I like the intensity of the night raid. I love how much that’s action and drama. I mean there’s a lot of story being told at the same time a lot of action is happening. I find that very emotional when I watch that reel, because reel five is basically the whole night raid when Peter rides away from the bridge. I find I still get a little choked up."

On how the kids changed from the first to second movie:

"Well, one of my biggest fears was, of course, how much they would change because I was very happy with them in the first one. You always worry that they’re going to go through that gangly stage or just go through some unfortunate stage that kids go through, but all of our kids grew and matured really well, both physically and in terms of who they were as people. I met Anna [Popplewell] and auditioned her for the first film - the first film I started auditioning, I put it on hold for script work and then gone back and auditioned it again. I met her when she was 13 and she’s now studying literature at Oxford. Will [Moseley] was I think 15 and he just turned 21 last week, so there’s obviously been a lot of changes. Skandar [Keynes] grew five inches in the last film and probably another four or so in this film. Georgie [Henley] I just saw has grown like three inches since I saw her two months ago. I mean, they’ve all changed a lot. But one of the things that I’ve been really happy about is not just how they changed in terms of their abilities as actors, but they’ve really stayed true to who they are as people.

"I think a lot of this has to be attributed to really good parents and really good families. I remember after the first film when the trailer came out, I contacted Georgie and just kind of seeing if it was okay, if it wasn’t too weird for her to suddenly be having people see her and that sort of thing. And she e-mailed me back and she had written that she’d seen the trailer and thought I was doing a very good job. And then she went on for two paragraphs to describe a game of rounders, which is a game they play in Britain at school that she had scored two goals in. It was kind of like that was her big achievement and that made me really happy. That made me realize that she was staying true to still being a kid."

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