Andy Serkis never felt like his job as Gollum was done

Andy Serkis spoke about the process of portraying Gollum in an interview with The Seattle Pacific University Magazine, describing it as "a very demanding role". Not only was it "very physically exhausting and vocally very tiring," but it was "psychologically... taxing," Serkis said. "And technically, the other actors, every time they finished the scene at the end of the day, they knew their definitive performance was in the box. It was on 35 millimeters, and that was it. "

As for Serkis' performance, it didn't end when the cameras stopped rolling, as he explained:

"But for me, it was like I was playing the role and playing the scene. When you shoot a scene, it's like you put a peg in the character board, and you can build from of that. For me, it would take about two years before the final scene was finished, because there are so many processes involved in between."

Andy Serkis wouldn't have the comfort of traditional actors when shooting a scene. As everything captured on camera became the endgame for a conventional actor, Serkis was introduced to what was to be two years of anxiety-inducing uncertainty over whether his work on a 'Lord of the Rings' movie would get done. .

"There would be motion capture, then revisiting it, then working with the animators and doing more voice tracks. There was never a time I went, Bang! I have the scene."