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I was just lucky enough to play the role that had that emotional range, that was written in such a beautiful way, that had such pathos and humour and character and really allowed an actor to take a huge journey with a digital character for really one of the first times.” “That was a big shift, I think, in the way that things worked.

“We had arrived to the point in the (computer-generated) world where actors were having to work against green screens, against tennis balls on sticks and they were divorced from acting against a fellow actor to play a CG character,” he says. Serkis’ work as the tragic Gollum, a creature twisted physically and mentally by his obsession for the ring in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, was not only remarkable for the depth the actor brought to the role but in how it changed the way filmmakers viewed technological advancements in motion-capture performance as a way to create “emotionally engaging digital characters.” There are few actors who have a richer canon of roles to dissect than the 59-year-old English actor, particularly at a fan convention. Article contentĪndy Serkis plays Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.

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Serkis also admitted that he used to “go on all fours offset when we were filming Lord of the Rings” to get into character as Gollum, calling it a “pretty method. Serkis said, “My only hope, now, is that I have done it justice and that the listening experience conveys the power and beauty of J.R.R. The funds raised will be distributed equally between NHS Charities Together and Best Beginnings, a children’s organization for whom Serkis is an ambassador. The actor finished the book in just under 11 hours, and he was watched by almost 650,000 people. Tolkien book The Hobbit in one sitting as part of a charity readathon. Serkis raised £280,000 last year during the first coronavirus shutdown by reading the whole J.R.R.

On September 16, a new audiobook version of the classic trilogy will be released, after Serkis’ recent readathon of The Hobbit. Andy Serkis, well known for his role as Gollum and immortalizing the phrase “My Precious” in The Lord of the Rings, is scheduled to narrate a new audiobook series based on J.R.R.