English - Actor | April 20, 1964 -
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.
Andy Serkis
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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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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.
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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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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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Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.
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What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.
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Over the years, people have asked me, 'Do you think there should be a separate category for acting in the digital realm? Or hybrid sort of awards for digital characters?' and so on. And I've always really maintained that I don't believe so.
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Gollum's never really gone too far away from me because he's indelibly kind of printed into my DNA now, I think.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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