How Andy Serkis' Cat Gave Him the Voice for Gollum | BAFTA Insights
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Andy Serkis tells the story of how he approached his character of Gollum for The Lord of the Rings series... which was inspired by his cat!
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What's your favourite Andy Serkis movie?
LORD OF THE RINGS ALL THE WAY
@@goosy123 i imagine a scene like in Big Bang, Andy on restaurant and fan looking at him. Let me guess, you like lord of the Rings, you know i´ve been other movies too, but you don't care about those
@José Gonçalves I know he does other great movies but I think Lord of the Rings was the coolest animation and acting that he’s done in my opinion. I think he deserves an award👏
Rings and Hobbit
War for the planet of the apes
He should've won an Oscar for his performance in The Lord of the Rings. Got snubbed so bad. Just look at the Gollum behind the scenes footage and see what a brilliant job he did. It isn't just motion capture. It is all him. It's his movements and voice and expressions that make Gollum - Gollum. Andy is what gave depth to Gollum. This guy deserves more than just a damn Oscar.
And when he did win an award, Gollum snatched it and said, "It's MINE!"
Actually, I think he said “My Precious”. LOL
@@jazzmusicfan You need to watch this video if you haven't. It's Gollum's actual acceptance speech. Not the most gracious, as one might expect.
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Calm down lol, it's just acting, not the Nobel peace prize
Oscars are overrated. I think Alan Rickman once said something that criticised the Academy Awards. Besides, Andy is not American...
Many thanks to his cat
Michael Myers the only you didn’t eat
did the cat get a credit for being Andy's voice coach?
@@scottmantooth8785 Very Funny .
ooohhhh Halloween
proof cats are the best characters ever.
The furball that helped redefine our perception of great acting.
His performance as Gollum is legendary
I'm not a voice actor..... says one of the best voice actors.
Edit: There, I removed the apostrophe. If it helps, I probably put it there when I was drunk. And I don't drink anymore. So one of the many benefits of being sober is the ability to not make silly mistakes that piss off grammar nazis.
But most of his most famous performances are also motion capture as well as voice acting rolls. Caesar from the most recent Planet of the Apes movies, Golem from LOTRs, Snoke from the Disney Star Wars films. But also he had his arm ripped off by Ultron.
@@02091992able Man Gollum as a golem would be terrifying (gotta love auto correct). Imagine him being as tall as the stone giants in the Misty Mountains. Hell nah.
He's not a voice actor, he's an actor who now specialises in digital mo cap characters.. Voice actors are a very spesific group of actors Rob Paulsen, Tara strong, Billy West, Dan Castleneta etc are voice actors and live action actors respect the hell out of them. Brad Pitt would never call himself a voice actor just because he's done some animated movies.
@@mullaoslo I don't disagree. But I choose to look at the actual vocal range, and expression in his mocap performances.
Just because he mocaps his roles. Doesn't mean the man isn't talented at putting on different and unique voices.
I understand the efforts he puts in, and that's what makes him an actor over a voice actor.
He should be considered an actor over a voice actor. But the dude has the skill to actually voice act. And in my mind. He's doing great voice acting work.
Even cartoon voice actors "act out" the script to really "get into the character". Just because it's not being mocaped doesn't mean that they aren't pouring themselves into the role still.
The thing about Serkis is the fact he is capable of understanding physicals of the character to the most realistic degree.
The man is an actor. But a phenomenal voice actor and a physical portrayal mastermind. The dude is the Buster Keaton of sound film.
I agree on a lot of fronts. But where I disagree is less about the black and white of performance art. And more the general. Art is art. And the only difference between Serkis and Billy west. Is truly down to the mocaping.
I'm saying less we should treat Serkis as a voice actor, but more we should acknowledge his range as to someone who could easily be considered. A phenomenal voice actor.
Which also brings room to appreciate vocal actors more in general.
Edit: czcams.com/video/re8eISermgY/video.html
So here you can see where your point and your argument makes complete sense. But at the same time. How my point and argument makes sense.
Dude literally came up with golem's voice because his cat was throwing up a hairball. That's skill. Even Mark Hamill roughly sounds the same across characters, and does voice acting for a living.
Damn I read this when he said it lol
LOTR must be one of few movies where each one of the characters and their actors are deeply loved by everybody, no matter if they played "good" or "bad" roles in the story.
No.
Who liked frodo? And Sam for that matter? Not all the characters actors are loved.
@@dumbledoor9293 Well...what really seems is that nobody likes you...
Dumble Door no one liked Frodo. Everyone I know loved sam tho
Ryan O'Sullivan fair enough, what qualities did you like in sam?
He literally acted with a new technology that was initially invented for medical purposes. That’s amazing. He started the change.
No
MrParkerman6 yes
Motion Capture was/is being used as both an assistant in physical therapy treatment and as a preventative measure for physical injuries. It’s also being used in conjunction with MRIs and as a teaching method for physicians, nurses, paramedics etc. It is being explored for other uses as we speak.
"im not really a voice actor"
Well damn....guess he proved himself wrong.
He meant in the traditional sense, back in the 90s and early 2000s voice acting was just dubbing cartoons and animated stuff. He was always known for changing his voice and getting really into a character.
SAVAGE 😂😂😂
@ Daniel, it's still the early 2000s, dumb fuck. And Voice acting is more than cartoons and animation, fucking idiot!!!!
MrParkerman6 why are you so mad lmao
@@MrParkerman6 He could have worded it as early 00s instead of 2000s. But it's a colloquialism, and say 2003 is early in the the 2000s relative to 2020. Your overreaction speaks more to your self control and ignorance to something obvious than to their "lack" of intelligence.
His cat and him will always be a legend
I see Serkis, I open the video and like it. Simple.
Same here 😂
Same
You should watch it, too. It's pretty good.
Gollum IMO is the most sympathetic villain in literary history. Never had I hated and felt so sorry for anyone as I did that pathetic,sniveling murderer. To start out initially hating him to eventually having great sympathy for his pain and suffering that he did not ask for.When he falls into Mount Doom I was happy for him in that he would NEVER be free of the ring and it had forever twisted and changed him. Even with its destruction the rings effects would cause him great harm until his death. With death being the only true release from its black vile influence. So in that instant Gollum became Smeagol again. Free after so many hundreds of years to again feel the breeze and taste bread. Allowing the sun to again touch his face.
You are 1000% Right
Andy Serkis has said that his interpretation of the line “Smeagol lied” on the slope of Mount Doom is that *Smeagol* was also plotting for the ring, *separately* from Gollum. Pretty sinister for your “good” split personality to be more subtly evil.
Allowing the volcano to touch his face you mean
My feelings for Gollum really changed when I re-read the books and realized that Aragorn seemed to say that Gollum had been breaking into peoples houses and eating their infants. 😐😐
Aw. Bless. Andy is a brilliant British guy, isn't he? Oscar boombya. 🦊
Such an underrated actor Andy is amazing
Why do people always say that...he is not underrated at all lol
@@MichelLinschoten Yeah fuck this guy, can't come up with anything original so all he's got is "X is SO Underrated!"
@@MichelLinschoten You see those comments all over You Tube, for every singer/actor/band etc there are a bunch op people to say that person/band is underrated.
The word underrated has no meaning anymore.
Here you go as you clearly don't know what the word means.
The definition of underrated is something that has not received the merit, recognition or praise it deserves. A movie that is really very good but that no one really pays attention to or praises is an example of an underrated movie.
Andy Serkis is one of the greatest if not THE greatest CGI actor of our time. and beyond his brilliant CGI performance he's actually a good actor in regular roles ( such as Claw in Marvel movies )
If you want an underrated actor try Doug Jones he's an absolute legend but nobody would ever recognize him while walking on the street.
His roles are to many to count but 99% of the time he's completely unrecognizable due to all the layers of prosthetic he wears.
Just search Pans labyrinth for a perfect example of what that brilliant man can do.
@@MichelLinschoten Robin Williams once said he should've atleast got a nominee for best actor with ROTK.
I think he owes his cat a great debt of gratitude for inspiring one of his most career defining roles! 😸
100% true if you look at his movies almost everything big he did after lotr has directly or indirectly been influenced by it. He also learned many valuable lessons on lotr like directing for example. Not sure on lotr but he was the B director of the hobbit movies the director below Peter Jackson that filmed smaller scenes and other shots Peter had no time for. Value learning experience for his own movie Mowli the Jungle Book movie.
MANY cans of premium catch tuna are in order!!!
The way he turns on gollums voice so easily is talented
Andy worked his freaking ass off on this role. Total legend.
His cat helped create the most mimicked voice
You mean, without Andy Serkis investment in the character of Gollum they would never had seen the potential of a real actor in the use of character CG, you mean without this man, without this hero of the cinema we would have got a Uncanny Valley CG thing with artificial and aproximate mimics.
Holy mother of Valar and Maiar and Ainur, this man is a genius and the cause of all the movies nowadays using this technology.
Think you're misunderstanding the uncanny valley, Gollum was made too far from an actual human to never induce that effect, the CG is nice, but isn't strong enough you believe it to be an actual real thing, the smart move with Gollum was keeping him more akin to a monstrous humanoid than an actual human.
It's no lie that the amount of post work to make Gollum work was probably larger at the time than what Andy put into it.
He is great, but let's not make this all about how one man made this work, he was a piece that several hands was utilized in a great way.
Dont forget danaerys,s babies.🐲
Ok but using the voice of his cat... 🙈 There is enough cheesy about those movies ,not to speak of even one more thing I'd rather not get to know
How is it possible. That this man. This technology. The whole Peter Jackson+Andy Serkis combo, is not praised as revolutionary. This is amazing. These 2 guys practically started a new era of cinema! They certainly deserve waaaaay more recognition and honor.
Truly a brilliant actor. Many don't realize that Serkis IS Gollum through Motion Caption. All the facial expressions, body movements are all him.
You can tell very easily just by looking at him
This guy amazes me. His performance as Gollum is incredible. I’m so glad he auditioned
I agree that he truly deserved an Oscar for it....he is quite unassuming and what method and approach...and dedication. A true great.
Just so talented, so humble and an absolute legend
Marvel really underused him as Klaw.
i really hate Marvel for that
Now DC is gonna use him right as Alfred
They are following a script. They can't exactly give him extra lines.
They should have followed the comics instead. Klaw is Black Panther's nemesis. Killmonger has always been a second.
Would be cool if he does silver surfer. or plays one of the deviants they may use in upcoming eternals related films.
The best thing about Andy Serkis and his performances is that if you're a true fan of his work you can tell which character he's playing. The CGI might be incredible, but his talent shines through in such a way that no matter how much CGI is between him and the final product, it still has his very human element being the driving force.
Andy Serkis is a genius. This very special way of acting thru a mechanism, of making these layers of mechanical and electronic complexity transparent for his emotions is a very high end version of puppetry. I have been a puppeteer for more than 40 years, and I am grateful that people like Andy have taken this age old art to a new height that nobody could have imagined even a few decades ago. Nothing but admiration for him and yes I believe he should have gotten the oscar years ago.
Anyone who cares about award shows is a idiot.
@@MrParkerman6 MrNonIdiotman6: "is a idiot."
"ring junkie" 😂
RIP Dizz, the original Gollum.
Wonder if he was a Sphinx cat.
@@Giles29 A Sphinx cat with hair balls?
@@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar They have hair, just real short
i never realized how good this guy really is until now .
great actor .
He is such a pationate man. His love for his work is contagious and inspiring
THANK YOU DIZZ, RIP BUDDY WISHED YOU KNEW WHAT YOU CREATED.
I absolutely love Andy Serkis. He's a brilliant actor.
One of the things I really liked about this was listening to Serkis explain his "process," how he tried to envision the character and develop a voice based on his presumed mental state/physicality/etc without sounding like a pompous, high-handed twit who could scarcely be any more impressed with himself..
It seems to be a common trait among Brit actors, one which I enjoy a lot; they are serious about their craft, and typically very diligent and committed to doing it well. Here in America, successful actors seem to share those traits...but get them started talking about themselves, they start to sound as if they really think they are awesome, sent to Earth with talent on loan from God to make the world a better place, frequently throwing around phrases like "As an artist..." all that sort of thing.
on the other hand: watch some respected, august, RADA-trained thespian like Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Richard Harris, Ian McKellen, et al, who cut their teeth doing Shakespeare at the Old Vic-- the kind of actors who could probably get a pass for sounding like a bit of a self-important stuffed shirt-- and they're very plain-spoken and self-effacing.
I remember watching Ben Kingsley-- an actor I enjoy tremendously--talk about playing the role of Meyer Lansky in "Bugsy," how he prepared for the role and pursued it, and I remember him simply saying "I get to the set on time, I have my lines memorized, I stand where I'm told to stand, and I say the lines as they're meant to come out." That's it.
Another time I was watching one of Alan Rickman's last interviews, and the interview cut away for a couple of minutes to a montage of various Hollywood big-shots and heavy hitters carrying on about what a stone-cold killer he was as an actor, how they were better actors for having worked with him, yadda, yadda, yadda. When asked about how he went about being such a great actor, he kinda smiled sheepishly and said it was "all about good script-writing." As he more or less put it: if the script is well-written, if the lines are good and the dialogue makes the character interesting, then all he had to do to deliver a good performance was say them properly.
THE RING
The whole story, as I understand it, was that Peter Jackson gave one ring to Elijah Wood and another to Andy Serkis, but for a long time each of them thought they had the only ring. Perfectly fitting in my estimation since each of their characters was, albeit for different reasons, obsessed with keeping the ring. In the end they both got it. Beautiful! Another thing - I thought that the closing credits of ROTK were the best I have ever seen in cinema: the artistically beautiful renderings of the characters, the outrageously beautiful song as sung by Annie Lenox ('Into The West') and most of all by the very very end - all of the writing is off the screen and a centered-on-the-screen picture of the ring was the last image of the credits which struck me immediately with the thought that much like the plane in 'Top Gun' the ring was the main character of the movie ... and fittingly takes the last bow.
I have watched War for the planet of the apes last night and I recognized his eyes without being able to actually remember his face. His acting is amazing. His confrontation with W.Harrelson is an incredibly good scene.
Underrated actor in my honest opinion, he is just unbelieveable, he is so good!!
He is to Peter Jackson what Doug Jones is to Guillermo del Toro, I think ... They really did open the door to a totally new way of thinking of acting. In retrospect, the Oscar was greatly deserved just for that much less for the skill he showed in doing something so well with almost no role models for how to do it.
What I found astonishing: When I saw Star Wars, The force Awakens, the scene with Supreme Leader Snoke: You could see Andy acting there. I hadn't read up on the cast, I didn't know Andy was playing the character, but it was obvious that Andy was under this animation.
This man is an amazing actor. He is proof that technology and human talent can make art reach incredile new levels, make anything possible,
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
It's a joy when he is not being interrupted
Andy Serkis is a one of the kind actor who is unmatched
I love how he played Golum!!!
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
To this day I love the King Kong remake and never knew Andy played him.
Josh B I didn’t know until he played Caesar. You could tell it was Andy when you saw Caesar’s face but couldn’t when you saw Kong
So interesting to see the process of an actor. To create such an authentic character! 👍 X
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
Very, very underrated actor. He's one of the all time best.
He is a likeable character and I enjoy watching his genius
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
He did the voice overs on a show I edited. He's a great actor and a nice guy. :)
It's amazing how much work Andy puts into work just for an audition, not even the actual job.
He still should be given an Oscar
Only idiots care about award shows. Award shows don't fucking matter.
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
Andy will forever be remembered as an innovator and a pioneer within the movie industry
You can definitely see a perfect blend of Gollum and Caesar in his face.
I'd like to thank my cat, God, and Peter Jackson for this award...in that order.
Hopefully God's ok with playing second fiddle to a cat
@@benwasserman8223
God: "alright mate, i'll allow that"
The freaking cat. We owe him so much
@@ShatteredGlass916 Cat: "Very well, let it be done."
Then God should be in third. The cat, for the inspiration, Peter Jackson for making it happen and then God for being a freeloader, as usual.
Andy Circus is a bloody legend watched him for years everything he does turns to gold!
Great voice, great cat ;)
Andy Serkis and Toby Kebbell are the master of motion capture, to see them opposite one another in the Planet of the Apes movies was brilliant.
He is so awesome! Puts his all into every character.
poor Andy, he wrote an book , he played multiple roles like King Kong , Star Wars , Avengers ... and everyone who meets him : "YOU are Gollum, do the Gollum" !
Andy’s book about being Gollum is GREAT
Well that's an icon role same with Mark Hamill he has done other stuff but 89% of people will say LUKE SKYWALKER 10% will say JOKER !!!! and the rest think who the fuck is that old guy ?
Hes an absoulute master of motion and performance capture but id love to see him as himself a little more, hes a great actor with an awesome voice and personality, it would be cool to see that on screen as well as the performance capture
One of the most underrated actors of all time.
Andy Serkis is a god damn international treasure.
He brought to life an ape and a monster through motion capture, and opened up a new form of filmmaking technology now known as motion capture. Andy Serkis is a legend.
Gollum haunts me like no other work of fiction. What's his fascination? He represents addiction, yes; he's a ring junky, but that doesn't quite encompass Gollum. Gollum is villain of all villains and the most sympathetic victim of all victims. He got the highest prize beyond anything anyone else could achieve, but it took everything from him, the friends he might have had, the loves he might have had, the children he might have had. It sucked every bit of joy out of his life but wouldn't even allow him to die. He had to live in agony forever.
spectacularly under rated genius of an actor
The actor is amazing and brought a heck of a voice to bring a character to life and he’s not even a voice actor. But who in the heck was the one who thought to bring this guy to the table to be a voice of a character even though he’s nos a voice actor?? Talk about luck or prophecy lol. And then in the end a freakin cat was the inspiration. Go figure
He is a voice actor, dummy.
He’s incredible
Amazing actor!
I had a cat help me in something similar. My ex and I use to play World of Warcraft and I was laying awake one night in the dark trying to come up with the name of a new character I was creating, which sometimes is very difficult. As I was laying there thinking, my cat had wandered into the room and like Andy's cat, started to hack up a hair ball. Part of my brain wondered "how would you spell that sound?" So the creation of my Night Elf....Oobleck was born. Little did I know at the time that it's also the name of the mixture of equal amounts of cornstarch and water. It's still one of my favorite characters.
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
I first discovered Serkis long before Lotr in a music video called woman sang by Neneh Cherry. It took me a while to remember him and make the connection between the characters but he really is a good actor.
1:47 What a brilliant thought process
GASP! He references Mr. Benn! I loved Mr. Benn when I was a kid. It totally fired my imagination.
R.I.P Dizz. Wonder if you knew what you were the inspiration for
Loved the nod to Mr. Benn.
Love it! Thank you Andy - you're one hell of a dude! :)
He’s a brilliant storyteller! Got lost in his narrative.
This explanation is as drawn out as some of the movies...but also like the movies..its still cool enough to watch
I love how he mentioned its the end of typecasting; cause ironically he actually HAS been typecast as a mo-cap actor ;p
Brilliant guy btw. Love his work
So many great actors!
Brilliant indeed!
Ahh Gollum got his ring in the end
Such a pleasant talking voice
That was great. Thank you
Fascinating!
That was incredibly interesting to listen.
Such a talent
Only 2% actors have this kinda talent they're more than other actors but Oscar judges are blind they don't know what the real acting is...
Oscar are awards for the best cocksuckers, not the best actors.
Love him
I absolutely love this
Mr Ben! Now that takes me back!
i wish i had the ability to answer one question in seven minutes!!! that's amazing!
Hello gorgeous 🌹
Thanks for the beautiful comment, I'm really overwhelmed by your amazing words 🌻🤗🙏
What a great insight into what helped Andy develope that character. "...3 1/2 foot ring junkie." lmao!
Best actor in the whole epic.
Legend 🙌🏽
Him in Planet of the apes is EPIC!!
My precious!!!
Precious 💍
Absolute legend
A brilliant actor and such a likeable person. He is fantastic as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes trilogy!
Brilliant!
What an inspiration man deserves an Oscar!
Everybody asks the same questions. It's fucking unbelievable. Sometimes I think the actors make up stories to tell so it's less painful for them when they answer the same question 2500 times.