“Older actors were like, ‘You wouldn’t catch me dead doing motion capture.'”
Actor Andy Serkis is famous for, among other things, his incredible talent for motion-capture characters.
But not everyone was a fan of Serkis’ motion-capture roles, including Gollum, all those years ago.
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“Older actors were like, ‘You wouldn’t catch me dead doing motion capture.
It’s the end of our profession.’
I literally heard someone saying that.
It was ripe for ridiculing–and rightly so.”
Beyond motion-capture roles, Serkis is an accomplished traditional actor.
He recently starred in The Batman as Alfred and on the Star Wars TV series Andor as Kino.
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