As Long As You Have The Acting

When You Start To Do Research Into Gorillas Or Any Kind Of Apes, If You're Going To Play Them, That's One Of The Biggest Misconceptions. And When I Did Kong, You're Not Doing Gorilla Movements, You're Not Doing Ape Movements, You're Looking For A Personality. It's Like Saying Okay I'm Going To Do Human Movements.

Originally When I Went Off To Work On 'the Lord Of The Rings' I Got A Call From My Agent Saying That I Was Just Going To Do A Voice. But I Couldn't Really Approach It Like That. To Get Gollum's Voice I Had To Play The Character.

[greek] Theater Started Off And Used Masks And Kabuki, In The East, They Used Mask-work. And Then, Commedia Dell'arte In Italy And Then, You Know, We're Part Of An Acting Tradition And, And Performance Capture Is No Different.

I Mean, In Many Ways, You Know, I Felt Very Connected To Ian (dury) On, On A Lot Of Levels. I Mean, Politically, & Sort Of, Socially, Our, Kind Of, Social Backgrounds Are Quite Similar In Many Ways, As Well As Our Kind Of Artistic Endeavors. So There Were Many, Many Things That Sort Of Chimed In For Me, And Kind Of Made Me Feel Very Instinctive About Playing Him, And, And Although, There Was Sort Of A Certain Amount Of Impression Involved, Actually, There's A Lot Of Myself In The Role.

I Love The Whole Kind Of Notion Of Transformation For Me Is (what) Excites Me About Not Only Acting, But Storytelling. I Love, I Love That Notion Of A Slightly Larger-than-life Artistic Truth, You Know, Magnifying Real Emotional Truth (or) Finding Something About Human Condition (which), You Wouldn't Necessarily Think You Can Learn From Characters Such As Kong Or Gollum, But Actually They Are, You Know, These Huge Amplifications Of A Human Psyche And I Suppose Those Kind Of Roles Have Always Attracted Me Definitely.