At the age of twelve, the boy received an invitation to play the leading role in the movie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and since then, he could start a successful acting career, but in the end, he chose a different life path. The boy was destined to be smart and talented due to his ancestry consisting of scientists and diplomats. His great-great-great-grandfather was naturalist Charles Darwin.
Almost all his grandfathers were the Cambridge professors and social and political persons. And his mother Zelfa Hourani is of Lebanese, as well as Persian and Turkish, ancestry, so Keynes loves Lebanon, considering it as a second home, and speaks Arabic well. Visiting Beirut in , the Keynes family met with military operations there. His voice changed, due to puberty, during the filming of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so the director used his sister Soumaya to voice some of his lines in the movie.
Skandar attended the all-boys City of London School from There he wrote as a film critic for the review section of The Citizen, the City of London School weekly school newspaper. Acting in many performances, the talented boy was noticed and was invited to the auditions to Andrew Adamson. Despite the success of the Chronicles of Narnia trilogy, Keynes decided to continue his essential academic education.
For him, the acting experience turned out to be an adventure rather than a job. It is a biopic film, which depicts Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. In , after undergoing a lengthy audition process, during which the producers saw 2, young hopefuls, Skandar won the role of a lifetime: playing Edmund Pevensie, one of four siblings who enter a strange world when they step through a magical wardrobe in the major motion picture The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe He had the role of Edmund, whose story is especially dramatic because it is connected with betrayal, redemption, and forgiveness.
The actor admitted that he was fond of stories about Narnia and read them for the first time when he was seven years old. Principal photography began in New Zealand on June 28, , shooting in primarily chronological order.
Skandar Keynes independently performed complex stunts: he had to jump into the ditch, fight with swords, rush on a horse. His ability to confidently stay in the saddle was beneficial.
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