News for Apr. 02, 2006

Serkis goes ape over King Kong

4/02/06, 8:55 pm EST - Xoanon

He had the biggest role in the movies last year, but Andy Serkis doesn't have to worry about fans and paparazzi. Serkis, as you well know, created the title character in King Kong, Peter Jackson's giant movie. Before that, Serkis -- wearing a motion-capture suit, as he did for Kong -- played and voiced Gollum, the twisted creature in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. But Serkis isn't entirely unrecognizable. "It's funny -- with Gollum and now Kong, I always thought that I'd be completely anonymous," says the 41-year-old British actor, "but because of DVDs and behind-the-scenes stuff and Kong Diaries, yeah, people do recognize me, not to an unhealthy extent. I have a certain amount of anonymity, and certainly professionally I'm not typecast. Well, it's not that you can be typecast, because there aren't that many roles for 25-foot gorillas." [More]