When I First Was Offered The Role

People Are Mystified By It And So They Kind Of Think, The Acting Community Thinks They're Gonna Be Replaced By Cg Characters And Animators Think They're Gonna Be Replaced By Performance Capture (and) A Lot Of Directors, Particularly European Directors, Who Have No Experience Of It.

I Stayed In Baghdad Every Summer Until I Was 14. My Dad's Sister Is Still There, But Many Of My Relatives Have Managed To Get Out. People Forget That There Are Still People There Who Are Not Radicalized In Any Particular Direction, Trying To Live Normal Lives In A Very Difficult Situation.

But The First Time I Had To Stand Up And Sing With Them Was When We Did The Pre-record For The Movie And It Was That Moment Where I Sort Of Said To Myself: "s**t, Now I Actually Have To Do This And I Have To Stand Up And Do My Stars In Your Eyes Moment!" Wake Up And Make Love With Me Was The First Song And I Thought: "here We Are With Chaz And All The Boys..."

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.

I Don't See A Difference Between Playing A Performance Capture Role And A Live Action Role, They're Just Characters To Me At The End Of The Day And I'm An Actor Who Wants To Explore Those Characters In Fantastically Written Scripts. The Only Caveat Is A Good Story Is A Good Character.