I had to find a voice that sounded like someone 'golluming.' I wanted this sense that his body is controlled by so that it's an involuntary action that was making him sound like this. A lot of his guilt is trapped in his throat.

For me, it's linked entirely to physicality and through the centering of an emotion around a voice. He later helps lead his species in an uprising against the humans who keep thousands of apes like him in cages. Caesar, who was raised from infancy by human handlers, has a growing self-awareness that he is somehow different from people who raised him. In his latest film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Serkis plays yet another virtual character: Caesar, the super-intelligent leader of the apes. He also played the title role in Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong remake, worked with video game developers on the 2007 PlayStation game Heavenly Sword and will appear in the upcoming The Adventures of Tintin. In The Lord of the Rings, he supplied the voice, facial expressions, body language and physical movements for his character Gollum in front of a green screen, so that visual effects artists could later animate his performance. If it happened more than once to one person they had to wonder why the actor was seemingly always dropping things and then having to look for them on the ground.Actor Andy Serkis will reprise his role as Gollum in Peter Jackson's upcoming two-part film, The Hobbit.Īctor Andy Serkis is Hollywood's go-to actor for playing computer-generated characters. One can only imagine wandering around the production of the film, or just a random place in New Zealand, and discovering Andy Serkis crawling around on all fours. I did occasionally come into contact with other people, so I just had to pretend I was looking for something. I spent a lot of time in preparation for that I would go off for walks on all fours for hours. I used to walk on all fours off set when we were filming Lord of the Rings.

This apparently got slightly awkward when he would run into other people while doing it. He recently told The Guardian that he actually went for walks this way to practice the movements. He uses his arms and legs to move around, and since his movements were going to be used to make Gollum real, Andy Serkis apparently spent quite a bit of time perfecting these movements. Gollum doesn't walk like a person, but more like a gorilla.

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