Gollum Is Gollum - Though

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.

Everybody Thinks Performance Capture Is About Thrashing Around And Doing A Lots Of Movement, But It's Actually About Being Able To Contain And Think And Be Believed In A Close-up, As Much As Anything Else.

There Is Always That Potential In The Same Way - Roddy Mcdowall Ended Up Playing Cornelius To Caesar [in The Planet Of The Apes]. Two Different Characters. That's The Joy Of The Craft. Bring It On I Say.

Basically We're Puppeteers And If You're There And You're In The Character, The Puppet Is Going To Look Good. It's Going To Breath Life And I Think Once They Find Out How To Trust This System, You Just Forget About It And Just Perform, Then It's Just Second Nature, It Just Becomes Easy.

In 'tintin,' It's Like A Live-action Role. You're Living And Breathing And Making Decisions For That Character From Page 1 To Page 120, The Whole Emotional Arc. In An Animated Movie, It's A Committee Decision. There Are 50 People Creating That Character. You're Responsible For A Small Part.