A Lot Of Actors On Film Sets...

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.

I Love The Whole Kind Of Notion Of Transformation For Me Is (what) Excites Me About Not Only Acting, But Storytelling. I Love, I Love That Notion Of A Slightly Larger-than-life Artistic Truth, You Know, Magnifying Real Emotional Truth (or) Finding Something About Human Condition (which), You Wouldn't Necessarily Think You Can Learn From Characters Such As Kong Or Gollum, But Actually They Are, You Know, These Huge Amplifications Of A Human Psyche And I Suppose Those Kind Of Roles Have Always Attracted Me Definitely.

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.

It's A Different Rhythm Than Most Movies. For A Lot Of The Actors, You're 12,000 Miles Away From Home. It Becomes A Way Of Life - Getting Up At Five In The Morning, Shooting Every Day, Day In Day Out, For 270 Days. The New Cast Playing The Dwarves Were Carrying Incredibly Heavy Weights In Their Suits, They Sat Through Hours Of Make-up Every Day. So It's Quite Challenging From A Stamina Point Of View.

It's Really Up To The Acting Community To Be Willing To Be Educated About What Performance Capture Is In Order To Fully Appreciate It As Acting. It's Not A Type Of Acting, But Rather The Use Of Technology To Harness An Actor's Performance And Translate It Into An Ape, Another Animal, Or An Avatar Of Some Kind.