Meryl Streep to Voice Aslan in Gerwig's Narnia
I just read, "Meryl Streep cast as Aslan" and I gasped. Aslan. Not "Asian". The difference mattered.
Madame Hardy15(shakes fist at sans-serif fonts)
Alan Kelly14She’s the mane star of the movie
🐦 🐟Antifa 🐈⬛ Bus 🐝 Driver 🚌💉💉😷2I mean, she's no Tilda Swinton...
Sara Wilcox1So thankful it wasn't just me!
katp2.bsky.social1Your 14 word post led me through shock, anger, disappointment, befuddlement, and finally, laughter. (Although a little befuddlement remains.) Thank you.
AlyceMiller1Likewise. Everyone’s posting about this. Bad font creates outrage. 🤣🤓
David A. Graham20Can't trust your own lion eyes
Alan Kelly14She is to be fair an incredibly versatile actor but surely playing 5 male Northside Dublin musicians is a stretch even for her?
Moosie3I was literally like “omg remember this movie” to @rumpledchords.bsky.social the other day
Ev2Meryl Streep portraying Mickey Rooney in a dramatization of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
My half blind eyes read this as "Meryl Streep cast as Asian" & I was very confused til I clicked it.
hixelbee hicks18it took me 'til this comment. several wtf moments on the way.
John4Ok THAT’s what I was fired up about before reading other posts. 🤦♂️
Casual Observer2I am also in this
marvinjamesnl.bsky.social2Oh I definitely shake your hand on this one! I was really wondering why Meryl Streep would accept a role like that... And it got worse: "Why are you showing me a freakin' lion?" "Oh... Narnia..." "There are specific Asians in Narnia?" "Ooooohhh... AsLan... Right..."
ratskrad2Me too that why I clicked on it as well. In high school I got casted as Aslan in our school production of The Lion the witch and the wardrobe.
dannyalvord.bsky.social2I had the exact same reaction! I thought it read Asian, too
I saw the trending topic "Meryl Streep cast as Aslan" and I did initially read it as "Meryl Streep cast as Asian". 💀
RexMonday14never thought i'd be so relieved to hear about an Evangelical lion
Ellie wants to ride her bike10Scarlett Johansson cast as Asian Aslan.
Nathalie Plum7Same! I screamed "MERYL, No!"
The Smartest Floridian5I am glad my first exposure to that line is this post. I gotta watch my blood pressure at my age.
Maggie Priceless🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇨🇦2My dyslexia is way more entertaining than reality.
thoughtwelldeep.bsky.social2We all did. We wonder at the extent of her talent
Delighted Gerwig has shaken up Narnia: shifting the novel to the 1950s, confirming Streep as Aslan. Because it’s the right thing to do. And because it will annoy people who deserve to be annoyed. www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
Cathy4Also, not the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, of which there is a million versions. This could be amazing 🤞
LondonLee1“I don’t know how you went from David Jones to David Bowie unless you went to Narnia and you saw something" They're called drugs, Greta Sounds good though!
Celiene O'Hara1I need better glasses! On BlueSky's trending list, I thought it said she was cast as ASIAN, not Aslan! LMAO! Cue the Right Wing KKKristian freak out in 3. 2. 1...
Justin Deegan1That should help cleanse the pallet ruined by sitting through all of End of Oak Street.
Greta Gerwig opens the doors to Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew in the new issue of Empire – detailing her revolutionary rock’n’roll adaptation. Here’s your first look at Aslan – and he’s voiced by legend Meryl Streep. On sale Thurs September 24. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
Empire Magazine19Empire’s exclusive subscriber cover for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is an epic sneak-peek at Aslan literally creating Narnia itself, courtesy of one of the film’s concept artist Jaime Jones. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
💚 12we’re getting a scaly rainbow-psychedelic Aslan, ok then
Sarah Jones66my god, the trads are going to lose it
Jess (hunting for Ben Solo)7im so hyped about this omg
Rosejack Queer Art5Everything about this is going to make conservative Christians SO MAD. I’m delighted. The way they jerk off to CS Lewis…
Original Chungus5I read this as "Streep to voice Asian" and I was expecting her to be in the new Ghost in the Shell or something bsky.app/profile/empi...
Michael Edwards4The most insufferable people, boomers, and right wing chuds are going to be 30 times more insufferable about this for the next 5 months
David4Cast is amazing! Daniel Craig, Denise Gough, Carey Mulligan, Ciaran Hinds, Susan Wokoma, and Meryl! 🤯 Oh shit! The terfs are going to have a meltdown over the gender blind casting 😂
V3This burns, was holding out to try and get on set when they were asking me at the same time for HoD 4
Meri Ficcionteca🎬📚3Aslan cantandole "The Winner Take it All" a la Bruja Blanca.
Claire S.2Cool so this should work about as well as when Judy Dench played Old Deuteronomy in the CATS movie.
Ariadne Griffin2Ok, she might be cooking with trans masculine Aslan.
Experience the creation of Narnia, as filmmaker Greta Gerwig brings to life C. S. Lewis’s beloved story THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW for the first time. In cinemas worldwide 12 February, 2027.
huck mason95I'm just so curious about what she's gonna do with this.
JJ 🏳️🌈13There are some stories that are so hard to view critically as an adult because you loved them so much as a child. Narnia is one of those stories for me. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one.
Bittersweet 😍😳11As a lifelong Narnia acolyte, I’m both excited and nervous about this movie (and wishing she’d started with LWW/the original published order)
scott dagostino8It’s truly impressive how much goodwill Greta Gerwig has created for herself. Anyone else doing this would be totally ignored but she’s got us intrigued ⭐️
Cade4LETS FUCKING GO! This and The Silver Chair were always my favorites.
First look at Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s ‘NARNIA’, voiced by Meryl Streep. (via Empire) #Narnia #GretaGerwig #MerylStreep
Bob Chipman ("MovieBob")28... ... ...oh. So, this is going to be the actual pop-culture "commentariat" apocalypse 👀 You will see "YouTuber Faces" not yet DREAMED OF in scope of bad teeth and poor beard grooming People in the PRESIDENTIAL cabinet will likely speak - angrily and embarrassingly - on this 🤦♂️
Alb3rt09I dig how Aslan has feathers and scales alongside the fur, giving the idea that all the Narnia animals are made from him. Also, Magician’s Nephew has a text describing Aslan as having “the voice of the earth herself” as he sings. So Steep’s casting makes some sense.
Grant!5We as a society can only say "Meryl Streep could play Jesus" so many times until a director finally decides to test that theory Huge Narnia guy. Cannot wait for this. Been wondering what Gerwig's POV on this universe would be so consider me VERY intrigued
Maytera Marble2a lion with homophobia in his eyes ❤️