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Andy Serkis
[Read the article: "King Kong"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stephanie Zacharek writes that Andy Serkis plays Kong "to give Naomi Watts a living presence to play off when she was filming the blue-screen sequences" but that's the least significant aspect of his role. Every facial expression, every gesture, and every movement of Kong is really that of Serkis who studied and researched primate behavior in depth for this role. Let's not forget that Serkis played Gollum in LOTR in the same way, imbuing him with convincing emotional subtlety. Unfortunately, Serkis was disqualified for an Oscar nomination because Gollum was digital; let's hope the Oscar gods see past this primitive and rather myopic definition of acting in the future.
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