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Film actor

Andy Serkis is a renowned British actor known for his groundbreaking work in motion capture performance. He gained international recognition for his roles in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Harry Potter' franchises, particularly as Gollum and咕嚕·波特. Serkis' unique acting style has transformed the way audiences perceive characters in motion capture films.

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“Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.”

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“Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.”

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“Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.”

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“Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.”

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“Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.”

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“I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'”

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“I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.”

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“I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.”

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“The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.”

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“I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.”

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“I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.”

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“Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.”

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“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”

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“But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.”

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“I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I've never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.”

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“For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.”

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“As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.”

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“I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.”

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“I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.”

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“Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.”

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“I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.”

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“I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.”

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“My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.”

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“After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.”

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“Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.”

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“And 'Sex Drugs Rock Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.”

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“Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.”

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“Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine.”

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“For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.”

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“I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.”

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“I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.”

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“Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.”

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“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

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“I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.”

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“In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.”

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“The wonderful thing about 48 fps is the integration of live action and CG elements; that is something I learned from 'The Hobbit.' We are so used to 24 fps and the romance of celluloid but at 48 fps, you cannot deny the existence of these CG creations in the same time frame and space and environment as the live action.”

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“My first job when I got my equity card was acting in 14 plays back-to-back. Playing that many roles, you look for ways of differentiating the characters physically, which goes hand in hand with understanding them psychologically.”

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“When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.”

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“The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.”

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“I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.”

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“Originally when I went off to work on 'The Lord of The Rings' I got a call from my agent saying that I was just going to do a voice. But I couldn't really approach it like that. To get Gollum's voice I had to play the character.”

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“People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.”

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“That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.”

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“I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.”

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“I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.”

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“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.”

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“At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.”

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“In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.”

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“I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.”

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“When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.”

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About the Author

Born: April 20, 1964
Known for: Film actor
Quotes: 120

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