If your entryway into Narnia<\/em> has always been The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe<\/em>, you already know that Jadis is bad news: this, after all, is the White Witch, who by the time of that story has imposed her rule over the fantasy kingdom. But in The Magician\u2019s Nephew<\/em>, chronologically the first Narnia<\/em> tale, Jadis is in a very different place (literally and metaphorically) though clearly on the path to who she\u2019ll eventually become. In Greta Gerwig\u2019s adaptation \u2013 Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew<\/em> \u2013 the role is being played by Emma Mackey, previously one of Barbie<\/em>\u2019s Barbies (Physicist Barbie, specifically).<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n As she encounters crosses paths with young Digory (David McKenna) and Polly (Beatrice Campbell), Jadis \u2013 long trapped in the realm of Charn \u2013 prepares to unleash fresh anarchy. Mackey was instantly hooked by how Gerwig wrote her. \u201cThere\u2019s this great line in the script where she\u2019s described as \u2018all chaos and bad plans\u2019,\u201d she tells Empire<\/em>. \u201cShe\u2019s this larger-than-life creature who appears in Digory and Polly\u2019s world and takes them by surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The impact that the otherworldly Jadis has on the kids is evident, too, in her costume \u2013 very much in keeping with Gerwig\u2019s glam-rock cultural inspirations. She\u2019s unlike anything they\u2019ll have seen back home in the post-war rubble of 1950s London. \u201cWe had to have that duality of fun, which is what the kids are seeing \u2014 [a] shiny, exciting person \u2014 but also, \u2018Wow, you\u2019re a little bit scary, and I don\u2019t really know what foot to dance on with you\u2019,\u201d Mackey says of Jadis\u2019 look. \u201cIt was very shiny and exciting, but also comfortable and ready for war.\u201d Bring on all those bad plans.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read Empire<\/em>\u2019s full world-exclusive Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew cover story \u2013 going on set with Greta Gerwig and her cast, including Daniel Craig, Emma Mackey, and Meryl Streep, to get the first word on her epic fantasy adaptation \u2013 in the November 2026 issue, on sale Thursday September 24. Pre-order a copy online here. Narnia: The Magician\u2019s Nephew<\/em> comes to cinemas from February 12, 2027, and comes to Netflix from April 2, 2027.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If your entryway into Narnia has always been The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, you already know that Jadis is bad news: this, after all, is the White Witch, who by the time of that story has imposed her rule over the fantasy kingdom. But in The Magician\u2019s Nephew, chronologically the first Narnia tale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14354,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14352\/revisions\/14354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Empire](\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/narnia-the-magicians-nephew-emma-mackeys-nefarious-jadis-is-all-chaos-and-bad-plans.jpg\")
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