What are your feelings about Tilda Swinton in the role of the White Witch?
An absolute dream. It isn’t the first name that comes to mind when thinking about the project, but as soon as you talk about Tilda Swinton for the White Witch, everyone agrees. She’s perfect. With Shrek 3 in motion, your plans are no doubt very loaded … Shrek 3 is on the way, but I can hardly give it time right now. Our filming schedule is intense and I see this project going badly if otherwise. I have to totally immerse myself. You can’t do very long days with the kids, which has sometimes been a bit of a relief, but nevertheless the difficulties do grow. You go through the bits with four kids in a house, and then the same kids wandering through Narnia up to the Stone Table, where they meet thousands of creatures. The project becomes more and more ambitious, and that’s the way I wanted the film to go. So consequently I probably didn’t anticipate the point when the workload would become so heavy. Tilda Swinton said that you would like to make a little film focusing on comedians in a “v
