News for Dec. 19, 2005
NEW YORK -- In computer-generated bodies not his own,
Andy Serkis has starred in two of the most humongously budgeted films of the decade. Serkis, who stands 5 feet, 8 inches, plays the role of Kong in
Peter Jackson's $200 million-plus King Kong. As he did for the "precious"-hungry
Gollum in Jackson's $300 million-plus Lord of the Rings trilogy, Serkis' human performance has again been transformed by computer graphics into a fantastical creature. [
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