Andy Serkis
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"Andrew Clement" ""Andy"" "Serkis" is an English film actor, director and author. He is known for his motion capture/performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such Computer-generated imagery/computer-generated characters as: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings (film series)/The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), King Kong in the King Kong (2005 film)/eponymous 2005 film, Caesar (Planet of the Apes)/Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin (film)/The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Serkis' film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed, and he has been called the "godfather of motion capture." Serkis has received an Empire Award, a National Board of Review/National Board of Review Award, two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his Motion capture acting/motion capture work.

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This was absolutely, really needed because we were doing really badly this year.

It is very much a character piece and very much about relationships. A lot of the themes in the film are about isolation and love, with all the characters isolated in some way.

Of course the computer animators take a lot of the credit for what's going on, but with Peter's help I really fleshed out the character.

I think he (director, Peter Jackson) was originally going to have Kong kill Lumpy. Instead he gave me a role who finally gets devoured by computer graphics ? I don't know whether that is a comment or not.

When I first came out to New Zealand for principal photography, the focus was on voicing Gollum. But Peter wanted Gollum to be the most interactive digital character ever made for a movie, with a combination of live action and digital animation.

My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadn't 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.

This is no mere monster movie.