He wants to get back on set as quickly as possible and get on with it.Andy Serkis who played Gollum Lord of the Rings trilogy, co-lauds Amazon’s own foray into Middle-earth The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But apparently he's been – pardon the pun – a real trouper. "No, I didn't," he replies with a sympathetic wince. But how about another tack…ĭid he see Harrison Ford fracture his leg on the door of the Millennium Falcon? Like the rest of the cast – from Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie to Girls' Adam Driver, from Carrie Fisher to Mark Hamill – Serkis has been sworn to secrecy on pain of Jedi death. JJ Abrams' production of Episode VII, currently bunkered at Pinewood Studios outside London, is a black hole of character and plot information. I'd love to be able to tell you," he insists, seemingly sincerely. Is he made of metal? "I can't answer that. Is he a mo-cap character in Star Wars? "I…" he begins, "…can't answer that." He even co-founded a cutting-edge "mo-cap" facilities house, the Imaginarium Studios, in Ealing, which employs a team of 35.Īs we chuckle at young Louis's imminent king-of-the-playground cachet, I try to catch the relaxed Serkis off-guard. That is, the role that requires actors to wear a light-strewn suit, which is then digitally nipped and tucked to create an on-screen creature. Serkis, then, is the doyen of motion-capture performance. And we'll come to his directing of a live-action The Jungle Book in another. We'll come to JJ Abrams' hotly anticipated Star Wars movie in a minute. Presumably the only reason Serkis is not in any of James Cameron's upcoming Avatar sequels is that he's just too busy. But here's what makes Andy Serkis the best-known unknown actor in Britain: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies – he's Gollum King Kong – he's the huge silverback of the title Steven Spielberg's animation Tintin – he's the voice of Captain Haddock Godzilla, currently stomping all over the box office – he consulted on the "emotional backbone" of the big lizard the second Avengers movie – he's been helping Mark Ruffalo find his inner, and very much his outer, Hulk.
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