Fantastic Andy Serkis article over at The New Zealand Herald
Christmas, with the release of the final adventure of Bilbo Baggins, he’ll finally say goodbye to Tolkien. Is he relieved? Disappointed?
“Well, it has been such an enormous part of my life for the past 14 years. And not just Middle-earth, but my relationship with New Zealand. Not that that will end, as I plan to go back there and make more films. So I don’t really see it as coming to an end.”
Surely they’re not further raiding the Tolkien hobbit-hole and making The Silmarillion next? “P’raps not,” he chuckles, his London accent coming to the fore. “P’raps I’ll shift around that one.”
Is he a mo-cap character in Star Wars? “I … he begins, … can’t answer that.”
Is he human? “I can’t answer that.”
Okay, not much said on Star Wars : Episode VII but still, an interesting read