White Witch

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==Portrayals==
==Portrayals==
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*[[File:WDJadis.jpg|left]]Tilda Swinton: Disney/Walden ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', 2005; ''Prince Caspian'', 2008
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*[[File:WDJadis.jpg|left]]Tilda Swinton: Disney/Walden ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'', 2005; ''Prince Caspian'', 2008; Fox/Walden ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'', 2010
Born: 5 November 1960
Born: 5 November 1960
"The Queen, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, could be played very characterized, very cartoonish if you want. That's not who she is to me, she has to be as powerful and evil as Aslan is powerful and good. One of the challenges with the White Witch that Tilda and I faced was avoiding the cliché. Um, the character of the evil females become somewhat of a cliché. I think was somewhat original when C. S. Lewis wrote this character, but since then we've had the Evil Stepmothers, the Cruella Devilles, the sort of screeching, cackling women, and Tilda and I wanted to be sure the White Witch didn't end up being there. In fact that's one of the reasons I cast Tilda is just that I knew she would never go there. She was a much more sophisticated and complex actor." — Director Andrew Adamson
"The Queen, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, could be played very characterized, very cartoonish if you want. That's not who she is to me, she has to be as powerful and evil as Aslan is powerful and good. One of the challenges with the White Witch that Tilda and I faced was avoiding the cliché. Um, the character of the evil females become somewhat of a cliché. I think was somewhat original when C. S. Lewis wrote this character, but since then we've had the Evil Stepmothers, the Cruella Devilles, the sort of screeching, cackling women, and Tilda and I wanted to be sure the White Witch didn't end up being there. In fact that's one of the reasons I cast Tilda is just that I knew she would never go there. She was a much more sophisticated and complex actor." — Director Andrew Adamson

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