{"id":58931,"date":"2012-07-13T18:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58931"},"modified":"2012-07-19T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:44:15","slug":"all-access-live-on-spike-tvs-interview-with-andy-serkis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/13\/58931-all-access-live-on-spike-tvs-interview-with-andy-serkis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All Access Live&#8221; on Spike TV&#8217;s interview with Andy Serkis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">At 5:32 EST, ComicCon in San Diego as portions of last December&#8217;s trailer were shown.\u00a0 I&#8217;m paraphrasing much of the 3-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/13\/58931-all-access-live-on-spike-tvs-interview-with-andy-serkis\/the-hobbit-comic-con-andy-interview-on-all-access-7-13-12\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58932\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58932 no-lazyload\" title=\"The Hobbit Comic Con Andy Interview on All Access 7-13-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Hobbit-Comic-Con-Andy-Interview-on-All-Access-7-13-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>discussion with Geoff Keighley because Andy talks VERY fast when he&#8217;s excited; but the meat of the interview is here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cast will be in Hall H tomorrow (Saturday) to premier some new footage, and Andy&#8217;s VERY jazzed! They talked about how much the technology for Gollum has changed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The technology, I&#8217;m sure, has advanced a lot from when you first did Gollum.\u00a0 How is the performance different for you and is the character going to be different in this?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The performance has changed only in the sense that we didn&#8217;t have to repeat everything for the second time with motion capture.\u00a0 Now you can shoot performance capture with live action all in the same get&#8230; and so all the interactivity is real.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to repeat anything.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The piece is completely whole when you shoot the scene.\u00a0 The character&#8230; Gollum as we know him&#8230;he&#8217;s a little bit hotter, and looks a bit cooler&#8230; he&#8217;s 600 years old; but in this he&#8217;s 540 years old&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>He&#8217;s a somewhat smaller role here compared to &#8220;The Lord of the Rings&#8221;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a seminal kind of [situation].\u00a0 Peoples&#8217; images of Gollum really are about this scene in <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where they draw all the visions of Gollum that come from <em>Riddles in the Dark<\/em> passage in the book.<\/p>\n<p>When we shot the scene we shot it in its entirety; so that every time we did it, we shot the scene from beginning to end.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about a 13-minute scene.\u00a0 We just played it all the way through.\u00a0 It was a really cool way of shooting it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How did it feel to get back into the voice?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you do it for fans all the time, right?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s really never left me. \u00a0I had to hold back leading up to <em>The Hobbit<\/em>.\u00a0 I gotta find him again.\u00a0 It was really weird.\u00a0 I was almost doing an impersonation of myself&#8230; but it came flying back in.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Regarding his becoming 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Unit Director: <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I didn&#8217;t know I was even going to do it until about 4 weeks before we started the shoot piece.\u00a0 [From Peter] &#8220;I really would love you to come down and do it because we&#8217;re going to be sharing\u00a0 a lot&#8230;the principal cast is going to become second unit.\u00a0 I want someone who can take care of performance&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 It was a huge learning curve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What are you guys showing the fans tomorrow (Saturday, July 14)?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of vignettes of various different scenes from the first movie and then kind of focusing in on the characters&#8230;\u00a0 introducing you to all the Dwarf characters.\u00a0 It&#8217;s about 8 \u00bd minutes introducing the characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5:32 EST, ComicCon in San Diego as portions of last December&#8217;s trailer were shown.\u00a0 I&#8217;m paraphrasing much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":58932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,123,16,14,1300,4,148],"tags":[808],"class_list":["post-58931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serkis","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-events","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-hobbit","tag-comic-con"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Hobbit-Comic-Con-Andy-Interview-on-All-Access-7-13-12.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fkv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58931"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58934,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58931\/revisions\/58934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}