Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis
Andrew Clement "Andy" Serkisis an English film actor, director and author. He is best known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogyand The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the eponymous King Kong in the 2005 film, Caesar in Riseand Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Captain Haddock / Sir Francis Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintinand Supreme Leader...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 April 1964
CityLondon, England
Andy Serkis quotes about
A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.
You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.
There's a huge gulf between people who can afford to go to drama school and those who can't.
I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
I believe that when people experience an event as a community, it can transcend and change people's lives.
I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!
David Bowie is playing Nikola Tesla, who invented alternating current and I am playing Igor to his Frankenstein.
I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
The voice he created for character was so perfect. The character was quite scary and the voice was quite scary at times.
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.
The fact of the matter is I have done so many parts.