I Play Saxophone, I Play Tenor Sax.

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.

For Me, I've Never Drawn A Distinction Between Live-action Acting And Performance-capture Acting. It Is Purely A Technology.

'the Hobbit' Was One Of The First Biggish Books I Ever Read. I Remember Vividly The 'riddles In The Dark' Passage, And It Meant A Lot To Me To Finally Get To Play It After All These Years.

After 'kong,' My Knuckles Have Never Recovered Because I Had To Wear Very Heavy Weights On My Forearms And Around My Hips And Ankles To Get The Sense Of Size And Scale Of The Movement Of The Character You Are Telling Your Body That You Are These Things And That You're Feeling These Thoughts And That You're Experiencing These Experiences.

People Think, 'oh, Well How Can 'the Hobbit,' Which Is One Book, Become Three Films?' But You Can Take One Line From An Appendice And It Turns Into A Whole Sequence.