LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'M TERRIBLY EXCITED BECAUSE MY NEXT
GUEST IS BEST KNOWN AS GOLLUM, BUT
HE NOW STARS IN "WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES."
PLEASE WELCOME-- MY PRECIOUS-- ANDY SERKIS!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( BAND PLAYING )
>> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
FIES TO HAVE YOU ON.
>> FANTASTIC TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
>> Stephen: ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD SAY TO PEOPLE WHO SAY,
LIKE, ANDY SERKIS DOES THIS AMAZING MOTION CAPTURE
PERFORMER.
I GO, NO, HE'S A FANTASTIC PERFORMER FAMOUS TORE DOING
MOTION CAPTURE BECAUSE PEOPLE EVEN TO THIS DAY DON'T
NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S YOU ALL THE TIME DURING
THAT PERFORMANCE AND THE MAGIC OF MOTION CAPTURE IS ABLE TO
MAKE YOUR PERFORMANCE INTO AN APRIL OR A SHRIVELED HOBBIT OR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
( LAUGHTER ) HOW MANY DIFFERENT NON-HUMANS
HAVE YOU CONE?
>> THE WEIRD THING IS WHEN WE FINISHED WITH THE LORD OF THE
RINGS, I WANTED TO GO BACK TO MY CAREER AS A NORMAL ACTOR AND
STAGE AND FILM AND TV AND THEN PETER JACKSON SAID, DO YOU WANT
TO PLAY KING KONG?
I THOUGHT I WILL GO FROM A 3 AND A HALF FOOT RING JUNKY TO A
10-FOOT GORILLA.
THIS IS THE END OF TYPE CASTING AS WE KNOW IT.
ANYONE CAN PLAY ANYTHING.
>> Stephen: I GUESS SEVEN YEARS AGO, MY BOYS AND I LUCKILY
WENT TO NEW ZEALAND.
>> I REMEMBER.
>> Stephen: AND WERE INVITED BY PETER TO COME TO THE SET FOR
THE HOBBIT.
ON THE WAY THERE WE HAD A LAYOVER ON L.A. AND SAW THE
ORIGINAL PLANET OF THE APES MOVIE WITH MR. FRANCO.
MY BOYS ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT.
IT WAS A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE.
THEY SAID, I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THAT IS MR. SERKIS AND HOW MUCH
IS MOTION CAPTURE IS THIS I SAID, WHEN WE GET TO
NEW ZEALAND, WE'LL ASK.
WE WENT TO STONE STREET SUED OWES AND THEY ACTUALLY PEELED
BACK YOUR PERFORMANCE FOR US IN ONE OF THE BEST SCENES OF THE
MOVIE AND WE SAW IT'S ALL OF YOU.
WE HAVE A WONDERFUL CLIP ONE OF YOUR PEOPLE SENT ALONG OF CAESAR
IN THE MOVIE GIVING A PEOPLE.
CAN YOU SET THAT UP FOR US?
>> THIS IS ACTUALLY NOT IN THE MOVIE.
THIS IS TO DEMONSTRATE PERFORMANCE CAPTURE.
IT IS ACTING.
PEOPLE THINK THERE IS A MYSTERY TO IT.
THIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THE ACTOR IS THERE GIVING THE
PERFORMANCE, AND THAT THE TRANSLATION INTO THE APRIL'S
FACE THE DONE IN POST, BUT YOU CAN SEE ALL THE NUANCE OF THE
PERFORMANCE IS CREATED AND AUTHORED BY THE ACTORS.
>> Stephen: THE DIGITIZING IS SERVING YOUR PERFORMANCE.
>> CORRECT.
>> Stephen: JIM?
IT IS MY HOPE THAT OUT OF THIS SOLEMN OCCASION A BETTER
WORLD WILL EMERGE OUT OF THE BLOOD AND CARNAGE OF THE PAST.
A WORLD FOUND UPON FAITH AND UNDERSTANDING.
A WORLD DEDICATED TO THE WISH FOR FREEDOM.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> THAT'S A GOOD COMMON
ADMINISTRATION.
>> Stephen: IT'S ACTUALLY -- IT'S A GOOD DEMONSTRATION.
>> Stephen: IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
THE FIRST PERFORMANCE PEOPLE GOT TO KNOW YOU IS GOLLUM.
YOU'RE DOING TWO DIFFERENT SIDES.
I WONDERED IF I COULD ASK A FAVOR.
>> YES.
>> Stephen: I HAVE IT RIGHT HERE, I WOULD LOVE IF I COULD
HEAR EITHER SMEEGLE OR GOLLUM READ THESE TWEETS BY DONALD
TRUMP.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ( PIANO RIFF )
>> Stephen: IT'S ALSO IN THERE.
>> "THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA HAS NEVER BEEN SO WRONG OR SO DIRTY.
PURPOSELY INCORRECT STORIES AND PHONY SOURCES TO MEET THEIR
AGENDA OF HATE.
SAD!" ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )
DESPITE THE CONSTANT NEGATIVE PRESS, COVFEFE!
WHAT'S COVFEFE, PRECIOUS?
>> Stephen: NO ONE KNOWS.
THAT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) I GOTTA SAY, THEY ACTUALLY SOUND
BETTER THAT WAY.
( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: IN "WAR FOR THE
PLANET OF THE APES," THIS IS A THIRD OF THE MOVIES, HOW HAS
CAESAR, THE CHIMPANZEE WHO WAS GIVEN THE VIRUS --
>> THAT'S RIGHT, SO BASICALLY CAESAR WAS AN ORPHANED BABY
CHIME BAN SEE WHOSE MOTHER DIED IN A L LABORATORY WHO WAS GIVEN
CURE AND IT TURNED INTO A VIRUS AND KILLS A LOT OF THE HUMANS,
AND BASICALLY CAESAR IS AN APRIL THAT THEN GETS AN ENHANCED
INTELLIGENCE, A RAPID ESCALATION OF ITS EVOLUTION, FEELS LIKE.
WE SEE HIM GROW AND EVOLVE AND BECOME MORE HUMAN LIKE.
THE WAY HE SPEAKS AND CONVERSES, THE WAY HE SPEAKS, YOU SAW A
DEMONSTRATION, AND BECOMES MORE HUMAN LIKE.
HE BASICALLY REPRESENTS THE HUMAN CONDITION WE SEE THROUGH
THE EYES OF APES.
WE ARE THE AUDIENCE INVITED TO SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES
OF APES.
BUT IN THIS MOVIE, THIS EMPATHETIC CHARACTER IS -- AN
EVENT HAPPENS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE THAT SETS HIM OFF
ON A JOURNEY OF REVENGE AND HATRED WHICH IS COMPLETELY OUT
OF CHARACTER FOR HIM.
THE WAR OF THE PLANET OF THE APES WAS BASICALLY THE WAR FOR
CAESAR'S SOUL.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: WAR FOR THE PLANET
OF THE APES IS IN THEATER THIS FRIDAY.
ANDY SERKIS, EVERYBODY.