SERKIS: Well, when you take on a role like this, obviously, you know, Caesar is a chimpanzee, and so there's - the first stage of the process is really working on the ape primate research and researching as much as you can and watching a lot of footage and spending time with apes and finding touchstone characters. I play him from toddlerhood all the way through to this, you know, highly developed male who leads the revolution. There's a couple of shots right at the beginning of the movie, which shows him literally just after he's been born, one or two days old. ANDY SERKIS (Actor): I play Caesar all the way from a toddler. In this film, you take a leading role with no dialogue, and you play the ape as an infant, right? He's eventually sent to an animal refuge, where he organizes an ape rebellion.Īndy Serkis spoke to FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies. Serkis plays a chimp named Caesar who gets a drug that enhances his intelligence and is raised in a human home. Serkis stars in a performance capture role in the new film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" with James Franco and John Lithgow. Computer graphic images are then imposed on the movements to transform the actor into a 25-foot ape or some other creature on film. Those roles involved a technique known as performance capture, in which an actor performs in a skin-tight suit with special markers, allowing cameras to capture his body movements and facial expressions. When he played King Kong in the 2005 remake and the tormented creature Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" series, he appeared not as himself but as a computer-generated image. ![]() Our guest, actor Andy Serkis, has appeared in more than 30 films, but you wouldn't recognize him in some of his most celebrated roles.
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