'And the levels, the emotional journey, and also I was channeling my friends who I've acted with for some of it and making up new voices, as well. Audiobooks, they're not easy things, I mean I'm a physical actor, but actually, it's a test all on its own,' Serkis recalled on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 'I have to say, I've played some pretty physical parts in my time, but sitting in front of a microphone for six weeks to record The Lord of the Rings in entirety was, I think, one of the most draining and mentally exhausting. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but also for The Hobbit, which required him to play 132 different characters over the course of the epic adventures, which also presented some challenges when it came to remembering how to voice them over the entire experience.

But there's a fun character design insight I just. Each area of the game, from Mirkwood to Barad-dur tower and Cirith Ungol, is beautifully rendered, almost painted onto the screen.

The actor recently recalled the experience of recording the audiobooks for not only J.R.R. The art and design of The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is outstanding, as you would expect from a PS5 game based around Tolkein’s epic fantasy world of Middle-earth. He's trying to trick us! We let him go, he'll throttle us in our sleep.Actor Andy Serkis's breakout role came by providing the motion-capture and vocal performance of Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, with the years since seeing him score a number of other coveted and compelling roles, though his passion for Middle-earth is undeniable. I told you he was tricksy, I told you he was false.įilthy little hobbitses! They stole it from us! We'll be nice to them, if they be nice to us. It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just tie him up and leave him. There is no promise you can make that I can trust. It's hopeless! Every orc in Mordor is going to hear this racket! Let's just just tie him up and leave him. You were not so very different from a Hobbit once, were you? They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead. Gandalf told me you were one of the River-folk.Ĭold be heart and hand and bone. Master should be resting, Master needs to keep up his strength. And then we takes it once they're dead.Ĭome on Hobbits.

Where is he? Where has he gone? Hey, Gollum! Where are you? and we be the master!īut the fat Hobbit, he knows. Kill him! Kill him! Kill them both! And then we take the precious. We ought to wring his filthy little neck. and away he goes, Precious! Gone, gone, gone! SMEAGOL IS FREE! *I* saved us! It was me! *We* survived because of *me*! Where would you be without me, uh? gollum, gollum. You don't have any friends nobody likes you! Yes, precious, false! They will cheat you, hurt you, LIE.

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