Performance Capture Is A Technology, Not A

On Lower Budget Things You're Still Working Collaboratively, But The Investment And Your Level Of Creative Importance Is Higher On Something Like This.

What's Wonderful About Tolkien And Shakespeare Is That They Show Up Your Own Individual Microscope. They're So Infinitely Vast. You Can Reinterpret Them In So Many Ways. Each Age Will Have Its Own Resonance With Lord Of The Rings.

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 Played Gollum In 'lord Of The Rings,' If I Was Climbing Up The Side Of A Mountain, Which I Physically Did, You Know, I Was On Every Single Occasion Swimming Through Streams, All Of That, That Wasn't Captured. That Was Filmed On 35 Millimeter, And For Certain Of Those Shots, It Was Rotoscoped And Painted Over.

[greek] Theater Started Off And Used Masks And Kabuki, In The East, They Used Mask-work. And Then, Commedia Dell'arte In Italy And Then, You Know, We're Part Of An Acting Tradition And, And Performance Capture Is No Different.