New Photos and Video Show Detail on Jadis’s Stunt Wand and Costume

As we previously reported, set videos from last weekend’s location shoot in Bradford revealed a scene which appeared to show Jadis using her wand in our world as part of her ongoing horse-based rampage through the streets of 1950s London.

Now, thanks to new photos from What’s On Netflix and a new video from Lina Firantaitė, we have our best look yet at Jadis’s new weapon — and her costume.

Although this is very likely a stand-in prop for the purposes of this stunt scene and it may be altered in post-production, fans can still presumably deduce design details as well as its general size.

These photos show a long, thin wand made out of multiple colors of metal (or perhaps other materials), with the majority of the shaft appearing shimmering and textured, while the tip of the wand is a markedly different bronze-like color.

In The Chronicles of Narnia books, Jadis is only described as having a wand in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Perhaps more notably, however, she loses her magical powers once arriving in London in The Magician’s Nephew, and wreaks havoc throughout the city with her physical strength alone.

In a set report posted to Facebook by Jeremy Sladdin, he described Jadis pulling “a wand from her boot” and using it to “blast one of her pursuers aside.”

Watch the zoomed-in video that shows the moment during filming:

Additionally, a video from Lina Firantaitė shows the wand being handed to the stunt woman in preparation for filming the next scene, where she tucks it inside a silver covering over her riding boot.

This new video also offers our best look yet at the stunt double’s costume, which appears to be a short dress made of silvery diamond-shaped shards of metal fastened together in a chain mail-like fashion, sporting a silver belt at the waist and several long, dangling strands of smaller diamond-shaped metallic pieces cascading from the top which flow freely around her as she moves.

Although the stunt double costume may only be a rough approximation of Emma Mackey’s costume, these new details likely provide a clearer idea of what the official costume will look like.

How do you feel about Jadis using her powers in our world? Is it an unnecessary deviation from the book, or a justified change to heighten the dramatic tension and visual spectacle? Leave your thoughts in the comments below, or check out the discussion on NarniaWeb Forum!