Playing A Character In A Video Game

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.

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.

I Am A Bit Evangelical, I Know, But Performance-capture Is Still Misunderstood.

In A Personal Way, To Do With Family And The Father-son Relationship, In A Kind Of Artistic Way With Regard To Him Being An Art Student. I Also Studied The Visual Arts At Lancaster University. I Then Decided To Become An Actor As He Was Becoming A Musician. And Then As An Actor/performer, We Have Similar Sort Of Interests - Music Hall And That Whole World. So, There's A Lot That I Felt Connected With.

I Suppose The Biggest Strain Was That Hoodwink Is A High-octane Character And He's Up There Like All The Time. Once He's On His Journey There's No Let Up For The Man, So I Actually Found It A Massively Exhausting Job To Keep That Level Up.