{"id":60069,"date":"2012-07-29T00:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=60069"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T05:27:42","slug":"serkis-says-jackson-mentored-him-through-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/29\/60069-serkis-says-jackson-mentored-him-through-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Serkis says Jackson mentored him through Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Andy Serkis<\/span> who&#8217;s new to directing was honored to be asked to be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2011\/07\/09\/45874-frame-by-frame-production-video-number-2\/screen-shot-2011-07-09-at-12-24-17-pm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45896\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-45896 no-lazyload\" title=\"03 The Hobbit Production Video #2 - Andy Serkis Wraps Filming\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-09-at-12.24.17-PM-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-09-at-12.24.17-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-09-at-12.24.17-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Screen-shot-2011-07-09-at-12.24.17-PM.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a> the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">second unit director<\/span> on <em>The Hobbit<\/em> (and he does a good job as we have seen through out Peter Jacksons video blogs)<em>. <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Peter Jackson<\/span> gave <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Andy Serkis<\/span> filmmaking tips and acted as a mentor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\">contactmusic.com<\/a> quoting from <strong>EMPIRE<\/strong> magazine:<\/p>\n<p>Serkis explained: &#8216;<em>&#8216;He would watch form his set, call: &#8216;No, no, it&#8217;s not working. Just bail out of the shot.&#8217; He was mentoring me<\/em>. &#8221;<em>There were different ways we worked. We&#8217;d set up entire sequences, or he&#8217;d start a scene and I would finish\u00a0 it if there wasn&#8217;t time.<\/em>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news\/peter-jackson-taught-serkis-to-direct-while-filming-the-hobbit_1377957\">More <\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Serkis who&#8217;s new to directing was honored to be asked to be the second unit director on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"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":[32,497,115,1300,4,74,496,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serkis","category-production-directors","category-hobbit-director","category-hobbit-cast-news","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-production","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-fCR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60069","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60069"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60089,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60069\/revisions\/60089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}