Thirteen years ago, British actor Andy Serkis received a phone call from his agent, who asked him if he was interested in auditioning for a three-week job supplying the voice of an animated character in director Peter Jackson’s trilogy “The Lord of the Rings.Having spent endless months portraying Gollum, Andy Serkis continued to play the roles of many CGI characters over the years that followed, including providing the motion capture for Peter Jackson’s King Kong remake, and returning to his apish actions playing Cesar in the Planet of the Apes movies. It seems like a no-brainer now, but Serkis rejected the offer. He instructed his agent to call back when he found something better. Well, it doesn’t get any better than playing Gollum, and Serkis concedes now that he has been thankful every day of the last 13 years that he changed his mind about playing the character that changed his life. Playing Gollum in three films that grossed nearly $3 billion at the box office and collected 17 Oscars, including a best picture nod for “The Return of the King,” not only led to roles in “King Kong” (the title character and Lumpy, the ship’s cook), “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” (Caesar) and Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin” (Captain Haddock), but it offered a chance to reprise his celebrated role of Gollum in Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” which opens Friday. Tolkien, which was penned years before “The Lord of the Rings.” The new film, which starts another trilogy, is based on the 1937 fantasy novel written by J.R.R.
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