CBBC’s Newsround have posted online their Tuesday interview with Dakota Blue Richards. The star of The Golden Compass had originally heard about the auditions on the programme and told them how she went along to open auditions in Cambridge to try out for the part of Lyra because she was such a fan of the books. “I like to do what I’m told not to do, just because someone’s told me not to do it,” she said. “I really liked the character and so I thought I might as well go to the auditions. I didn’t really believe it at first until they were saying ‘Oh you’re going to come to set and do costume fittings’ and I was like ‘what?'”

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