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This Actor Literally Walked On All Fours For Months To Prepare For The Biggest Role Of His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Actor Andy Serkis changed
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Speaker 1: the way we view CG characters with his legendary emotion
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Speaker 1: captured performance of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings
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Speaker 1: and Hobbit movies. He brought a computer character to life
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Speaker 1: like no one before had managed to do with his
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Speaker 1: dedication to the complex physicality and the sniveling and shifty
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Speaker 1: monster who more often than not is crawling around in
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Speaker 1: the shadows and and he has just revealed in order
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Speaker 1: to make that happen. He also literally lived the same way,
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Speaker 1: he tells The Guardian. I used to walk on All
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Speaker 1: Four's off set when we were filming Lord of the Rings.
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Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time preparing for Gollum. I
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Speaker 1: would go off for walks on All Fours for hours.
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Speaker 1: I did occasionally come into contact with other people on
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Speaker 1: those walks, so I just had to pretend I was
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Speaker 1: looking for something. The hard work certainly paid off more
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Speaker 1: than Andy expected, he added. The fame and acclaim playing
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Speaker 1: Gollum brought him was so intense. He was glad it
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Speaker 1: happened later in life when he could handle it. That's
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