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Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators It is a confusing time to be alive, given how often these days Hollywood indulges in revisionism. Who knew that the Wicked Witch of the West was the heroine after all, that Cruella de Vil simply had a difficult childhood , or that Mufasa was adopted ? Now it turns out that Aslan, CS Lewis’s messiah with a mane, is a lioness – or at least, may sound like one in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, because Meryl Streep is providing the voice. News that the Oscar-winner might be portraying Narnia’s Christ-like big cat first surfaced in April last year , prompting a flurry of complaints from conservative Christians. This week, the naysayers were back after Empire published a first look at the film , along with
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The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators It is a confusing time to be alive, given how often these days Hollywood indulges in revisionism. Who knew that the Wicked Witch of the West was the heroine after all, that Cruella de Vil simply had a difficult childhood , or that Mufasa was adopted ? Now it turns out that Aslan, CS Lewis’s messiah with a mane, is a lioness – or at least, may sound like one in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, because Meryl Streep is providing the voice. News that the Oscar-winner might be portraying Narnia’s Christ-like big cat first surfaced in April last year , prompting a flurry of complaints from conservative Christians. This week, the naysayers were back after Empire published a first look at the film , along with
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?, The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators It is a confusing time to be alive, given how often these days Hollywood indulges in revisionism. Who knew that the Wicked Witch of the West was the heroine after all, that Cruella de Vil simply had a difficult childhood , or that Mufasa was adopted ? Now it turns out that Aslan, CS Lewis’s messiah with a mane, is a lioness – or at least, may sound like one in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, because Meryl Streep is providing the voice. News that the Oscar-winner might be portraying Narnia’s Christ-like big cat first surfaced in April last year , prompting a flurry of complaints from conservative Christians. This week, the naysayers were back after Empire published a first look at the film , along with
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