Performance Capture Is A Genre Of Acting

In The Same Way 'lord Of The Rings' Was An Interpretation Of The Book, 'the Hobbit' Is Being Treated The Same Way. It Will Be Faithfully Represented With A Fresh Interpretation.

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.

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.

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.

What's Wonderful About Tolkien And Shakespeare Is That They Show Up Your Own Individual Microscope. They're So Infinitely Vast. You Can Reinterpret Them In So Many Ways. Each Age Will Have Its Own Resonance With Lord Of The Rings.