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More And More Good Actors Are Now Transmigrating Into The Videogame Space And Playing Roles There Because It's Where My Generation Of Kids Get Stories From.

It's A Different Rhythm Than Most Movies. For A Lot Of The Actors, You're 12,000 Miles Away From Home. It Becomes A Way Of Life - Getting Up At Five In The Morning, Shooting Every Day, Day In Day Out, For 270 Days. The New Cast Playing The Dwarves Were Carrying Incredibly Heavy Weights In Their Suits, They Sat Through Hours Of Make-up Every Day. So It's Quite Challenging From A Stamina Point Of View.

There Are No Rhymes Or Reason, Actually. Having Said That, You Know, Cause There Are People Who Are Absolutely Single-minded About Their Process And They Can Still Come Up With Great Work. But (what) I Enjoy And It's The Same, I Suppose, As I Became More Of A Family Man, I Enjoy, I Enjoy An Atmosphere Where It, You Know, Doesn't Have To Be About Conflict To Get Good Results.

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.

I'd Already Started Directing Short Films When We Were Doing 'lord Of The Rings,' Then Videogame Projects. So Peter's Known That I've Been Heading Towards Directing For A Long Time. But I Always Thought My First Outing Would Be A Couple Of People And A Digital Camera In The Back Streets Of London Somewhere!