Serkis would need to do all of those things separately, and he wouldn’t do them alone.
But most actors do all of those things simultaneously by themselves. On one level, Serkis is only describing what all actors do: using their physicality and voice to embody, and communicate the psychology and emotional drives of, a character. But I guess what I’m doing is really providing the acting side of it, the emotional drive behind the character, the physicality, and I suppose, most importantly, the voice.” “Now, the character of Gollum does tend to belong to a lot of different departments, obviously, as a computer-generated character. “I’m playing the character of Gollum,” Serkis says in the doc. He looks like a discount Moon Knight, or perhaps an angry larva. He’s dressed in all white, complete with a hood. Serkis jumps all over the stage, pulled and pushed by Wood and Astin. Gollum has been tracking Frodo and Sam and is now attacking them in hopes of finally getting his distended hands on his precious, precious ring.
We spy on Jackson as he shoots Gollum’s entrance into the film. Initially, all we see of Serkis in the documentary is a manic blur wrestling Elijah Wood’s Frodo and Sean Astin’s Sam. Serkis first tried to explain his job in the making-of documentary that came bundled with The Two Towers’ DVD release.
So each Wednesday throughout the year, we'll go there and back again, examining how and why the films have endured as modern classics. And sometimes that’s easier said than done when you’re wearing those motion capture pajamas.2021 marks The Lord of the Rings movies' 20th anniversary, and we couldn't imagine exploring the trilogy in just one story. After all, bringing Gollum to life required a great deal of trust in Peter Jackson and company, and commitment to the role. While Andy Serkis seems to understand why so many people around him were confused about his iconic Lord of the Rings role, it likely wasn’t fun to hear. It was ripe for ridiculing – and rightly so. There were lots of jokes about it you know, Saturday Night Live things with people in suits with ping pong balls attached.
It’s the end of our profession.’ I literally heard someone saying that. When Lord Of The Rings originally came out, there would be literally people who would say, ‘Who is that character? Is he a dancer? Is he a contortionist?’ Older actors were like, ‘You wouldn’t catch me dead doing motion capture. As he told GQ in the midst of a recent interview: Andy Serkis gave a stellar physical and vocal performance to bring Gollum to life, but there were some naysayers at the time. Motion capture has become somewhat commonplace thanks to projects l ike James Cameron’s Avatar franchise, but it was rather new technology at the time of production on the Lord of the Rings movies.
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