"They lick the fur off their bodies, then it gets stuck in the back of their throats. "I actually found the voice from watching my cats at home," he said in Berlin ahead of the European premiere of the last part of the "Rings" trilogy, "The Return of the King". Serkies declared that the desperation and avarice in his acting was based on the experience of heroin addicts.BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) - Andy Serkis, the British actor who plays the bulging-eyed, schizophrenic cave-dweller Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, said on Monday he studied his cats to develop his character's sinister throaty voice. The character was created following the facial features of Serkis, while his moves were reproduced using a mix between motion capture and the traditional process of keyframing.įun fact – For his performance, Serkis won “best virtual performance” at the MTV Movie Awards. In the trilogy of Peter Jackson, Gollum is a computer-generated character and his voice and moves were performed by the actor Andy Serkis (a polyhedric actor, who gave his moves to King Kong too as well as to the monkey Cesare in the last remake of “The Planet of the Apes”). In 1952 Tolkien himself was one of the first to give his voice to Gollum: his interpretation was highly appreciated by the critics. Gollum appears in several films and radio adaptations of “The Lord of The Rings”. Tolkien must have understood his potential because, in his best-known novel, he not only gave him a starring role, but he became part of Fantasy history. In “The Hobbit”, the novel written before “The Lord of The Rings”, he wasn’t one of the main characters. Gollum is one of the most loved and hated characters of Middle-Earth, created by the writer J.R.R.
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