Serkis is not exclusively a performance-capture actor (you can see him act more traditionally in “The Prestige,” “13 Going on 30” and the 2010 film “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”), but he has embraced the new technology. However, with technological advances since the first trilogy, Letteri said the process has been streamlined so that more subtleties in the actor’s performance could be filmed. However, the computer-generated Gollum is still the crown jewel of a filmmaking process called “performance-capture,” in which Serkis wears a suit covered with markers that send signals to a special camera that captures the actor’s performance. Set in Middle Earth 60 years before the previous trilogy, the new film follows hobbit Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman), the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a group of tough dwarfs as they embark on a quest to retake the dwarf’s homeland from a murderous dragon. Tolkien, which was penned years before “The Lord of the Rings.” The new film, which starts another trilogy, is based on the 1937 fantasy novel written by J.R.R. Playing Gollum in three films that grossed nearly $3 billion at the box office and collected 17 Oscars, including a best picture nod for “The Return of the King,” not only led to roles in “King Kong” (the title character and Lumpy, the ship’s cook), “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” (Caesar) and Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” (Captain Haddock), but it offered a chance to reprise his celebrated role of Gollum in Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” which opens Friday. Well, it doesn’t get any better than playing Gollum, and Serkis concedes now that he has been thankful every day of the last 13 years that he changed his mind about playing the character that changed his life. He instructed his agent to call back when he found something better. It seems like a no-brainer now, but Serkis rejected the offer.
Thirteen years ago, British actor Andy Serkis received a phone call from his agent, who asked him if he was interested in auditioning for a three-week job supplying the voice of an animated character in director Peter Jackson’s trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.”
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