Gollum Is Gollum - Though

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.

I Was Thinking About That. I Was Thinking, This Is Like Our Boyhood; This Is Like Our Getting Together Over 12 Years To Make - This Our Apehood! I Mean, This Is It! For Me, The Relationships, All Of Those Things, Over Such A Long Period Of Time Now With Actors, But Also Seeing The Characters Grow, Develop, And Change, And Go Through Different Situations.

Not A Day Goes By Where I'm Not Reminded Of Gollum By Some Person In The Street Who Asks Me To Do His Voice Or Wants To Talk To Me About Him. But Because 'the Hobbit' Has Been Talked About As A Project For Many Years, I Knew That At Some Point I'd Have To Reengage With Him.

No Matter How Extreme Things Get, It Still Has That Ring Of Truth About It That Backs The Characters - Even Though They're Despicable And What They're Doing Isn't Right You Still Care For Their Fate.

That's What I Think Is The Biggest Challenge, Is Just Being Still And Learning How To Just Be Present In That Stillness And Not Over Do It, Not Over Act.