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My Agent Told Me They Were Casting For The Voice Of Gollum. I Hadnt Read The Lord Of The Rings, But I Read The Script And Realized What An Amazing Role It Was. I Developed A Voice For The Audition Tape, Then Met Peter Jackson And Fran Walsh At The Auditions And Fell In Love With Them Both.

I Believe That When People Experience An Event As A Community It Can Transcend And Change People's Lives.

When You Have Children, You Realize That At The End It's All About Passing On, About Handing Down. The Process Of Letting Go, Not Attachment, But Appreciating The Beauty And Value In The Change, The Transformation.

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.

When I Played Gollum In 'lord Of The Rings,' If I Was Climbing Up The Side Of A Mountain, Which I Physically Did, You Know, I Was On Every Single Occasion Swimming Through Streams, All Of That, That Wasn't Captured. That Was Filmed On 35 Millimeter, And For Certain Of Those Shots, It Was Rotoscoped And Painted Over.