As Long As You Have The Acting

Not A Day Goes By Where I'm Not Reminded Of Gollum By Some Person In The Street Who Asks Me To Do His Voice Or Wants To Talk To Me About Him. But Because 'the Hobbit' Has Been Talked About As A Project For Many Years, I Knew That At Some Point I'd Have To Reengage With Him.

I've Done A Fair Amount Of That Stuff... When We Did 'lord Of The Rings' The Transformation Sequence From Smeagol To Gollum Was A 19-hour Make-up Job. You Have To Have A Kind Of Zen Button That You Press And Allow The Mind To Be Focused In A Certain Way.

After 'kong,' My Knuckles Have Never Recovered Because I Had To Wear Very Heavy Weights On My Forearms And Around My Hips And Ankles To Get The Sense Of Size And Scale Of The Movement Of The Character You Are Telling Your Body That You Are These Things And That You're Feeling These Thoughts And That You're Experiencing These Experiences.

But I Think There's Something Wonderful And Extraordinary About Climbing On Your Own And Just That Kind Of Relationship To The Environment. I'm Very Addicted To The Mountains. You Know, So, I Do Like That Solitude.

The Process Of Acting Is No Different [playing Human Or Ape]. You're Embodying The Character. You're Creating The Psychology And The Physicality. You're Living The Moment.