On Lower Budget Things You're Still Working

My Dad Was Working Abroad, In Iraq, And He Was A Doctor. We Used To Go And Visit Him, In Baghdad, Off And On. For The First Ten Years Of My Life, We Used To Go Backwards And Forwards To Baghdad, So That Was Quite Amazing. I Spent A Lot Of Time Traveling Around The Middle East.

I'm Quite Contrary. If People Agree On Something, I Tend To Gravitate The Other Way By My Nature. I Don't Like To Be Told What To Do. I Think It Goes Back To School. I Like To Do Things I Want To Do And I Really Don't Like Doing What I Don't Want To Do.

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.

We've Never Had Nannies. We've Had Great Grandparents, Great Support From Family, And The Kids Have Been On Every Set: They've Seen Me Play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, The Lot. They Totally Get It, And They Want To Go Into The Business. Ruby, My Daughter, Is Very Keen To Become An Actress.

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.