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How Owen Teague’s Performance as Noa in ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Fulfilled a Childhood Dream · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Oh Intigue stars in
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is
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Speaker 1: the biggest role to date of the steadily rising actor's career.
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Speaker 1: But you won't see him on screen. Owen plays Noah Chimpanzee,
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Speaker 1: brought to life by Owen's motion capture performance and the
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Speaker 1: magic of CG. A lot of actors might take it
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Speaker 1: hard knowing that their face won't be seen in their
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Speaker 1: breakout performance, but it's actually a dream come true for Owen.
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Speaker 1: He still remembers when his parents brought him to see
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Speaker 1: the remake of King Kong when he was seven, where
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Speaker 1: Kong was played through motion capture by Andy Serkis tells Variety,
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Speaker 1: I had so much empathy for that character. I was
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Speaker 1: so affected by Kong, and after my mom explained to
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Speaker 1: me that it wasn't just a guy in his suit,
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Speaker 1: that it was a performance that had been digitally captured,
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Speaker 1: I was like, I want to do that, and I'm
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Speaker 1: fine maintaining anonymity. I want to keep being a normal
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Speaker 1: person going out to get coffee without being recognized. Fame
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Speaker 1: scares me. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes sound, now,
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Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood,