We’ve never had nannies. We’ve had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they’ve seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress. Andy Serkis Read Quote
Did you happen to catch the film I did between ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Kong?’ It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, ’13 Going on 30,’ and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk – pretty well, I thought – to Michael Jackson. Andy Serkis Read Quote
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. Andy Serkis Read Quote
Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it’s just another way of recording an actor’s performance. Andy Serkis Read Quote
I’ve always been a huge fan of Charles Lawton’s performance in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ so somewhere along the line, I’ve always wanted to play that character. Andy Serkis Read Quote
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. Andy Serkis Read Quote
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own. Andy Serkis Read Quote
As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything. Andy Serkis Read Quote
Our family were outsiders, and I’ve always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded. Andy Serkis Read Quote
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I’ve always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera. Andy Serkis Read Quote
