Everybody Thinks Performance Capture Is About Thrashing

The Matter Is - We Are Actors Playing Roles [in Planet Apes] And They Happen To Be In This Instance Apes But There's No Difference. In The Scenes That We're Playing, If We Were To Block Out The Scenes As Actors In Costumes, It Would Be No Different.

In The Same Way 'lord Of The Rings' Was An Interpretation Of The Book, 'the Hobbit' Is Being Treated The Same Way. It Will Be Faithfully Represented With A Fresh Interpretation.

It's Really Up To The Acting Community To Be Willing To Be Educated About What Performance Capture Is In Order To Fully Appreciate It As Acting. It's Not A Type Of Acting, But Rather The Use Of Technology To Harness An Actor's Performance And Translate It Into An Ape, Another Animal, Or An Avatar Of Some Kind.

My Sons Have To Learn That You Take The Rough With The Smooth And They've Seen A Lot Of Smooth In The Years That They've Been Around. They Didn't See The Early Years. But Both My Mum And Myself Are Actors And We Constantly Tell Them It's Not Easy. But They Understand That.

I Think We Can Be Very Narrow-minded In This Country; You See Something That Someone's Done And Immediately Want Them To Do The Same Thing Again - But If They Don't, They're Criticised For Not Doing The Same Thing Again, But If They Do They're Just Repeating Themselves.