I Can Get On With All Different

I Love, First Of All, Reading And Discovering What The Common Perception Is And Then Trying To Figure Out... Well, How Does Your Life Cross Over Into That Character, Or What's An Angle On This That Might Challenge The Status Quo? It's Just A Great Journey As Well As An Education. You're Constantly Being Educated - It's Like I'm Back At School And Making Up For Lost Time.

Caesar [from The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes] Was Brought Up With Human Beings And Because Of The Drug He Had Pretty Much Grown Up With His Whole Life, He Felt Like An Outsider, He Felt Trapped In An Ape's Body But He Didn't Really Feel Like An Ape And That Was My Way Into The Character. So He's Always Had This Duality Playing Him From An Infant All The Way To Now As A Fifty-five Year Old Ape.

When I First Was Offered The Role On Rise [of The Planet Of The Apes], I Always Played Caesar As A Human Being Within Ape Skin.

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.

I've Done A Fair Amount Of That Stuff... When We Did 'lord Of The Rings' The Transformation Sequence From Smeagol To Gollum Was A 19-hour Make-up Job. You Have To Have A Kind Of Zen Button That You Press And Allow The Mind To Be Focused In A Certain Way.