He's yet to go through the whole world premiere experience, and I was there at the Royal Albert Hall for the premiere of the first and it was massive - there must be some knowledge you can impart to him there to prepare him!

WM: That premiere was mad, wasn't it? But I don't want to seem like I'm patronising him because he's hugely experienced, you know, and he's got loads to teach me. But to be honest, Narnia is huge. It's colossal. And I think when Ben starts to see what it's like in Japan, for instance, I think he's just going to think how lucky he is. That's all I thought. I'm so lucky to be here, so lucky I got the part and so lucky I had the chance to work so hard. I'm sure the same thing will strike him no doubt.

You've shot quite a bit of the film in Eastern Europe this time - how changed will Narnia be?

WM: Yeah, we had a different D.P. on this one - Karl Walter Lindenlaub - and he shot it really well. His shots are just beautiful - really, really stunning. Everything in every shot is absolutely beautiful. I think just because it was bigger this time and they had more to work with. People always ask if we shot it on green screen, which is a D.P.'s nightmare, but we really shot most of it on location. They literally just built everything. It was a battle scene, fine, we'll built it. Aslan's How, we'll built it. Castle, we'll build it. The D.P. has so much to work with, and so many angles to get and I think they're struggling now to bring the film down because it's so many minutes over because there's so much good stuff in there!

Have you seen it yet?

WM: I haven't, I've seen little bits here and there. I did ADR voiceover stuff, and I saw bits like the battle and the fights. It's pretty epic, I've got to say. This one-on-one fight I do with Miraz - I know I'm completely biased and don't take my judgements as sold, but I really think it's going to be one of the best one-on-one fights anyone's ever seen on screen. As a kid, that's all I'd watch, action films. I watched this battle scene and I've never seen anything like it. We even had the camera on a 360 degree dolly and they had three cameras pitched in. I was with the head stunt guy because he wanted to do it with me. We're spinning around fighting, and there are these three cameras filming at 90 frames a second so it's in slow motion spinning all around and it looks so cool! This huge battlefield in the background. It's pretty epic.



In the first film when you think of that scene with Peter and the wolf on the ice, he's very nervous - this is really his chance to go back and have fun with everything he learned in Narnia the first time around.

WM: Yeah. The producer would always joke to me, "You know, I think Peter likes killing a little too much!" [laughs] I was loving it, you know, I love all the physical stuff. I was getting in there and getting stuck in and learning all of these cool physical moves. You could fully see that I was really into it. They were like, "I think we should pull that back a bit!"

Is the stunt work your favourite part?

WM: Well, it's very satisfying for me and it sounds weird but it's very easy for me, I don't find it that hard. But the acting is definitely my favourite bit, and the most rewarding. When I've worked on a scene like crazy and I've worked on these lines and I've given all I can to it and I come off and the director says it was really nice, that means so much to me. Acting isn't easy - whoever tells you acting is easy is lying because it's not easy at all and you have to work at it - when you get that sense of achievement at the end of the day where you know you've done a good job and you've done your scene well, it's really uplifting and that's pretty much why I'm in it.

How has your relationship with Andrew developed?

WM: Andrew's a very visual director. He sees everything before he shoots it. I suppose he's a bit like Alfred Hitchcock, who'd storyboard everything to the smallest detail. For Andrew, everything has to be perfect down to the last branch on a tree, you know, he even sees that. It's so hard for him, I think, on a film as big as Prince Caspian, to give his time up for each of us, so it's very much like we do our thing and then Andrew gives us the time and we have to respect that he has to go off and he can't spend time having a cup of tea with us. I remember even at lunch they'd bring a laptop up to him to have him approve things at lunchtime. He worked his guts out and I take my hat off to him for doing that, you know.

Is it a career that's ever appealed to you?

WM: Yeah, you know, I really would love to direct and but feel like everything's a mountain. I feel I'm very-much still at the bottom of this acting mountain, you know, trying to work my way up that one. Hopefully, maybe half way up, we'll see if I might be able to do some directing.

I've so many ideas for films but it's so hard trying to script them in a concise way and in a way that people might like. You don't know what people might like, you just try to do what you can, you know. It's really hard. You're trying to get this idea out that you think is great and you tell someone and they're like, "That sounds crap."



I'm sure it's all to come - to have Disney put their faith in you for these two giant movies is a great achievement. Because, without wanting to be intimidating, these are massive movies...

WM: Well it's definitely intimidating and I wouldn't want to say it isn't. You mess up a take on a small film, you can maybe go back and do it in a couple of minutes. You mess up on this kind of film and it can maybe take an hour to reset one shot. You fall over while you're running and 2,000 people just collectively groan. There's definitely a lot of pressure.

But I've always been a competitive person to some degree. When there's a bit of pressure I can sometimes either do well under it or not do well, it depends. When it doesn't go well you have to use music or something like that to help you into it. When it is going well you can embrace the pressure and use that energy in your scenes, your fight scenes especially because you can really give it some.

I was thinking today, I was playing a game of snooker with my friend and I'm really terrible at snooker - I'm not patient enough--

Hang on, you're an actor and you're not patient enough for snooker?

WM: [laughs] I know, I know! I get really emotional because I just want it to happen, you know, I want it to happen. So I was playing this game of snooker and it comes down to, I've got to pot the pink and black to win the game, and I can't even miss it. I pot the pink and I've lined up the black and he's looking down and you can feel the pressure. I just whacked it and luckily it went it, but sometimes I'll whack it and it might just come out, you know... It's the story of life, isn't it?!