The Big Star You May Have Never Seen: ; Andy Serkis' Expressiveness Gives Life to Computer Creations
Charleston Daily Mail › August 11, 2011
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Andy Serkis loves to disappear into a role.
As the guy who portrayed Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" films, Kong in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong," and now Caesar, a chimpanzee, in the just-released "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," Serkis has become the face of motion-capture performance, a combination of acting and computer manipulation that means, in all of those high-profile roles, Serkis' face isn't seen at all.See the full content of this document
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The Big Star You May Have Never Seen: ; Andy Serkis' Expressiveness Gives Life to Computer Creations
That's fine by him.
"I think actors are afraid that if they're not seen on-screen, then that's a real problem," Serkis, 47, said during a recent interview in a hotel suite at San Diego's Comic-Con, the pop- culture convention where the London native had come to promote "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."...See the full content of this document
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