{"id":994,"date":"2006-10-28T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/10\/28\/fast-chat-andy-serkis\/"},"modified":"2006-10-28T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T15:35:42","slug":"fast-chat-andy-serkis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/10\/28\/994-fast-chat-andy-serkis\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST CHAT Andy Serkis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontAS.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> England&#8217;s Andy Serkis is best known for playing the creepy or the colossal &#8211; he was Gollum, the whiny, covetous blue guy in the &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy; he was also the tall, dark and not-so-handsome leading ape in Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;King Kong.&#8221; With a lengthy resume in British theater, Serkis has had notable screen roles playing bona fide humans &#8211; the choreographer in Mike Leigh&#8217;s &#8220;Topsy Turvy,&#8221; for instance &#8211; and is currently appearing in the movie &#8220;The Prestige.&#8221; He is maintaining his creature franchise, however: Serkis will be voicing Spike the Rat in the upcoming animated feature &#8220;Flushed Away.&#8221; John Anderson caught up with him in Los Angeles. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/entertainment\/ny-fffast4948125oct29,0,1784469.story?coll=ny-entertainment-promo\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s Andy Serkis is best known for playing the creepy or the colossal &#8211; he was Gollum, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}