Det är inte alltid enkelt att gestalta en ny karaktär, särskilt inte om man spelar en CGI-karaktär med allt vad det innebär. Någon som säkerligen har blivit varse om detta många gånger, är Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes), som vid ett framträdande på 2025-års upplaga av Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo berättar om första gången han skulle gestalta den kända karaktären Gollum ur The Lord of The Rings-trilogin. Ett ögonblick han sent kommer glömma.
"These guys had been filming for about 4 or 5 months before I got out to New Zealand. I was going through the preparations for becoming Gollum, and I was often on my own and crawling about, and kind of practicing, and doing what I was doing. And then the day came."
"Film is all shot out of order, and my first scene was scene 765 of film 3, and I remember crawling onto the set, and sort of becoming Gollum with my [thin] lycra suit on, and then getting into character. And then Pete Jackson laughing at me. All the crew were kind of going, 'Who is that guy and what the hell is he doing here? Can you get him out of shot because we want to shoot here.' I don't think anybody really knew what I was doing there on the very first day."
"We then shot the scene and that was a very beautiful thing, but it was months of sort of preparation and then standing there. And it did make me laugh when I could see Peter standing in front of me giggling like a child, because here was this character Gollum coming to life, but all it was, was this guy with a shaved head in this very thin suit going, '[Gollum noise].'"
Även om det uppstod en hel del förvirring hos produktionen av att spela in tre filmer simultant och samtidigt hantera en skallig man i kroppsdräkt, så hyllades både trilogin samt Serkis insats av både kritiker såväl som fans och står sig idag som en av hans mest kända roller.
Vilken roll tycker du är Serkis bästa?
En man med många skepnader.