You don't have the story of the read-through quite correct. William and Anna went through two years of auditions and Georgie went through a year and a half. The three of them had a lot of time to get to know one another and become friends. Skandar didn't come around until the tail end of things. Adamson hadn't found his perfect Edmund, so he asked Pippa Hall (the casting director) to keep looking. Then she found Skandar and knew he would be perfect.
He came in for a read-through with the other three because it had pretty much been decided at that point that they were the finalists. He has said in interviews that he thought things were weird from the get-go because they all had the lines memorized and seemed to know one another really well. Georgie was great friends with Will and Anna by then, so she was quite outgoing and outspoken, which Skandar did find annoying because she kept talking over him.
The point is that this all happened during Skandar's first audition with the other three siblings. He was kind of the "outsider". Mark Johnson and Andrew Adamson have both said that the situation was perfect casting.
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