The White Witch has its new face –Sex education The star Emma Mackey will play the legendary villain in Netflix’s NarniaDirected by Barbie Director Greta Gerwig.
Gerwig, who is writing and directing, is adapting The wizard’s nephewThe sixth book in the fantasy saga of CS Lewis. The project gathers it with Mackey, who appeared in the success of one billion dollars of Gerwig Barbie.
The buzz has been spinning for months, with names like Charli XCX in the mixture. Ultimately, the final choice was reduced to Mackey and The substance Star Margaret Qualey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Netflix remains silent, there are no official comments on casting.
Jadis, better known as White Witch, is the most infamous enemy in Narnia. She is the sorceress who cursed Narnia with a winter never-end so gloomy that she never reaches Christmas and freezes her stone enemies. She plays a key role not only in The wizard’s nephewbut also in the flagship title, The lion, the witch and the closet.
The film is still early in the casting, but Mackey can be sharing the screen, at least the sound landscape, with Meryl Streep, which in Talks to Voice Aslan. Aslan is the Parlante Lion who, in the books, is the King of the Kings.
In a bold movement, Netflix is giving Narnia A two -week theatrical IMAX is executed at the end of 2026, something that Gerwig fought to ensure.
The Mackey star continues to increase. After its outbreak in Sex educationShe has accumulated great credits such as Death in the Nile” Emily (who won his two British Independent Film Award) and, of course, Barbie.
He is currently filming a JJ Abrams movie without a title with Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega, and will arrive at Cannes’s red carpet by AlphaThe last movie of Titan Director Julia Ducournou. She also leads the comedy of the James L. Brooks team She McCayLanding in cinemas on December 12.
Mackey is represented by Caa, Johnson Shapiro and Ziffren Brittenham.