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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.

When I Played Gollum In 'lord Of The Rings,' If I Was Climbing Up The Side Of A Mountain, Which I Physically Did, You Know, I Was On Every Single Occasion Swimming Through Streams, All Of That, That Wasn't Captured. That Was Filmed On 35 Millimeter, And For Certain Of Those Shots, It Was Rotoscoped And Painted Over.

The Wonderful Thing About 48 Fps Is The Integration Of Live Action And Cg Elements; That Is Something I Learned From 'the Hobbit.' We Are So Used To 24 Fps And The Romance Of Celluloid But At 48 Fps, You Cannot Deny The Existence Of These Cg Creations In The Same Time Frame And Space And Environment As The Live Action.

The Difference Between The Big Budget Films I've Done Is The Length Of Time. But In Terms Of The Day-to-day, You're Still Going On To Set, You're Getting Into Character, And You're Going And Doing Your Job, So There's Absolutely No Difference. It's Just The Structure Around It And The Length Of Time. But In Terms Of Budget And Money, It Doesn't Really Manifest Itself.

As Long As You Have The Acting Chops And The Desire To Get Inside A Character, You Can Play Anything.