Director Greta Gerwig is taking heavy heat after revealing officially that she has cast left-wing Oscar-winner Meryl Streep to voice Aslan the Lion in her upcoming reboot of C.S. Lewis’ classic Chronicles of Narnia.
\n\nAuthor C.S. Lewis wrote his tales of Narnia as an allegory for Christianity. His Aslan lion character was meant to be a direct correlation to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Therefore, Lewis meant very specifically for his Aslan to be a male character. But Grewig, who last so directed the blockbuster Barbie movie, has now cast a woman to voice the venerable lion.
\n\nGerwig told Empire magazine that she chose Streep because the actress has “gravitas.”
\n\n“I wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness. Someone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight,” Gerwig said. “I wanted someone who was older than 70, so there was a wisdom of experience, but who also had the capacity of fresh wonder, like a child. And also to be one of the greatest actors to ever do it. That list is not a long one.”
\n\nGerwig also released the first image of how her Aslan will look, as…
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