I Do Listen To Myself Sometimes And

I Think There Will Always Be A Particular Generation Of Actors Who Think That They're Going To Be Replaced By Robots. But Certainly The Emerging Actors Understand That That's Part Of The Craft.

Animators Do Amazing Working Translating And Interpolating The Characters [in The Planet Of The Apes], The Facial Performances. What We're Creating On Set - If You Don't Get It On The Day, In The Moment, On Set, In Front Of The Camera, With The Director And The Actors. The Emotional Content Of The Scene And The Acting Choices.

Basically We're Puppeteers And If You're There And You're In The Character, The Puppet Is Going To Look Good. It's Going To Breath Life And I Think Once They Find Out How To Trust This System, You Just Forget About It And Just Perform, Then It's Just Second Nature, It Just Becomes Easy.

But The First Time I Had To Stand Up And Sing With Them Was When We Did The Pre-record For The Movie And It Was That Moment Where I Sort Of Said To Myself: "s**t, Now I Actually Have To Do This And I Have To Stand Up And Do My Stars In Your Eyes Moment!" Wake Up And Make Love With Me Was The First Song And I Thought: "here We Are With Chaz And All The Boys..."

Not A Day Goes By Where I'm Not Reminded Of Gollum By Some Person In The Street Who Asks Me To Do His Voice Or Wants To Talk To Me About Him. But Because 'the Hobbit' Has Been Talked About As A Project For Many Years, I Knew That At Some Point I'd Have To Reengage With Him.