
Like Highmore, she also followed Depp to a role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Snow, an elderly friend and fan of Barrie's. Eileen Essell, 82 years old at the time, makes one of her first feature film appearances, as Mrs. Within the film are scenes of a production of the play, featuring Kelly Macdonald as " Peter Pan", Angus Barnett as "Nana", Toby Jones as " Smee", Kate Maberly as " Wendy Darling", Matt Green as " John Darling", Catrin Rhys as " Michael Darling", Tim Potter as " Captain Hook"/"George Darling" and Jane Booker as "Mary Darling". Oliver Fox plays Mary's lover Gilbert Cannan. Ian Hart appears as Barrie's friend Arthur Conan Doyle. Highmore's performance in this film led Johnny Depp to suggest him to Tim Burton for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which Highmore played Charlie Bucket and Depp played Willy Wonka. The Llewelyn Davies boys are portrayed by Freddie Highmore ( Peter), Nick Roud ( George), Joe Prospero ( Jack) and Luke Spill ( Michael). Hoffman objected to this, so the scene was rewritten for him to simply read aloud and ridicule character names from the play. The original screenplay for this film included a scene in which his character – the play's sceptical producer – was to put on the Captain Hook costume and read some of his lines to point out how silly he found it. Hoffman had appeared a dozen years earlier in title role of the Peter Pan sequel Hook (1991). In addition to Johnny Depp as Barrie and Kate Winslet as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the film stars Dustin Hoffman as producer Charles Frohman, Julie Christie as Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier and Radha Mitchell (who had starred in Forster's Everything Put Together) as Barrie's wife Mary.

Along the way, Barrie goes on adventures with Sylvia and her boys. Emma also seeks to control her daughter and grandsons, especially as Sylvia becomes increasingly weak from an unidentified illness. Barrie's wife Mary, who eventually divorces him, and Sylvia's mother Emma du Maurier, object to the amount of time Barrie spends with the Llewelyn Davies family. Sylvia was a widow: her husband died from cancer and left her with four boys to bring up on her own. Although Barrie sees this family as wonderful and inspirational, people question his relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family. He proves to be a great playmate and surrogate father figure for the boys, and their imaginative antics give him ideas which he incorporates into a play about boys who do not want to grow up, especially one named after troubled young Peter Llewelyn Davies. Good job.In 1903, following the dismal reception of his latest play, Little Mary, Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her four young sons (George, Jack, Peter and Michael) in Kensington Gardens, and a strong, close friendship develops among them. I'm dancing to this Comment by Nieve Luna I like this song Comment by Neb12Beatz Golden Productions

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