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On Lower Budget Things You're Still Working Collaboratively, But The Investment And Your Level Of Creative Importance Is Higher On Something Like This.

My Agent Told Me They Were Casting For The Voice Of Gollum. I Hadnt Read The Lord Of The Rings, But I Read The Script And Realized What An Amazing Role It Was. I Developed A Voice For The Audition Tape, Then Met Peter Jackson And Fran Walsh At The Auditions And Fell In Love With Them Both.

In A Personal Way, To Do With Family And The Father-son Relationship, In A Kind Of Artistic Way With Regard To Him Being An Art Student. I Also Studied The Visual Arts At Lancaster University. I Then Decided To Become An Actor As He Was Becoming A Musician. And Then As An Actor/performer, We Have Similar Sort Of Interests - Music Hall And That Whole World. So, There's A Lot That I Felt Connected With.

I Don't See A Difference Between Playing A Performance Capture Role And A Live Action Role, They're Just Characters To Me At The End Of The Day And I'm An Actor Who Wants To Explore Those Characters In Fantastically Written Scripts. The Only Caveat Is A Good Story Is A Good Character.

We've Never Had Nannies. We've Had Great Grandparents, Great Support From Family, And The Kids Have Been On Every Set: They've Seen Me Play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, The Lot. They Totally Get It, And They Want To Go Into The Business. Ruby, My Daughter, Is Very Keen To Become An Actress.