Gollum Is Gollum - Though In 'lord

I Think What Traditional Studios Probably Don't Understand Is That It's A Genuine Advancement In The Actor's Tradition. And You Know, The Tradition And Craft Of Acting. And It's The Latest Step. You Know, We, We Tend To Find Forms Of Delivering Stories That Fit Our Times.

That's Why I Ended Up Going To Lancaster University, Because They Had A Visual Arts Course, And In The First Year It Was Like A Broad Visual Arts Course In Sculpture, Painting, Graphics - All Of That.

My First Job When I Got My Equity Card Was Acting In 14 Plays Back-to-back. Playing That Many Roles, You Look For Ways Of Differentiating The Characters Physically, Which Goes Hand In Hand With Understanding Them Psychologically.

Basically We're Puppeteers And If You're There And You're In The Character, The Puppet Is Going To Look Good. It's Going To Breath Life And I Think Once They Find Out How To Trust This System, You Just Forget About It And Just Perform, Then It's Just Second Nature, It Just Becomes Easy.

There's This Whole Grey Area Seemingly Every Time It's Talked About Animators And Who Takes Ultimate Responsibility For The Characters [of The Planet Of The Apes] But Without Question And I'll Go Down Saying This Year After Year, These Characters Are Authored By What We Do On Set. They Are Not Authored By Animators.