Whether you are an
actor or a carpenter, whenever you start to work on a project you know, or at
the very least, you have a picture in your mind of what you are trying to
achieve will ultimately look like. Well not Andy Serkis, who thanks to all the
secrecy surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens, started to work on the
project without knowing what his performance-captured character, Supreme Leader
Snoke, would look like.
"It’s the first time I’ve
been on set not yet knowing what the character’s gonna look like. I mean, talk
about secrecy!" the actor revealed to Entertainment Weekly. "When we
first started working on it, he had some rough notions of how Snoke was gonna
look, but it really hadn’t been fully-formed and it almost came out of
discussion and performance," Serkis says.
Therefore, whatever leaked concept art you might have seen from the character may be outdated or just flat out wrong. "We shot on set of course, and I was in the scenes I have with other actors, but the beauty of this process is you can go back and reiterate, keep informing and honing beats and moments," Serkis revealed. "So J.J., after we shot last year, we’ve had a series of sessions where I’d be in London at The Imaginarium, my studio, while he’s been directing from L.A., and we’ve literally been creating further additions and iterations to the character. That’s been fascinating. And in the meantime I’ve been able to see the look and design of the character grow and change as the performances change. So it’s been really exciting in that respect."
Furthermore, Serkis reveals that much like Lupita Nyong'o's character Maz Kanata, they couldn't have resorted to practical effects like makeup and prosthetics. "The scale of him, for instance, is one reason. He is large. He appears tall. And also just the facial design – you couldn’t have gotten there with prosthetics. It’s too extreme. Without giving too much away at this point, he has a very distinctive, idiosyncratic bone structure and facial structure. You could never have done it [in real life.]"
Therefore, whatever leaked concept art you might have seen from the character may be outdated or just flat out wrong. "We shot on set of course, and I was in the scenes I have with other actors, but the beauty of this process is you can go back and reiterate, keep informing and honing beats and moments," Serkis revealed. "So J.J., after we shot last year, we’ve had a series of sessions where I’d be in London at The Imaginarium, my studio, while he’s been directing from L.A., and we’ve literally been creating further additions and iterations to the character. That’s been fascinating. And in the meantime I’ve been able to see the look and design of the character grow and change as the performances change. So it’s been really exciting in that respect."
Furthermore, Serkis reveals that much like Lupita Nyong'o's character Maz Kanata, they couldn't have resorted to practical effects like makeup and prosthetics. "The scale of him, for instance, is one reason. He is large. He appears tall. And also just the facial design – you couldn’t have gotten there with prosthetics. It’s too extreme. Without giving too much away at this point, he has a very distinctive, idiosyncratic bone structure and facial structure. You could never have done it [in real life.]"
If
the current marketing plan is of any indication, Lucasfilm will probably keep Snoke's
looks and motivations a secret until the film premieres on December 18, however
Serkis is confident that the Stormtroopers will miss him and agrees to share some
broad details about the villainous character.
"Supreme Leader
Snoke is quite an enigmatic character, and strangely vulnerable at the same
time as being quite powerful," Serkis says. "Obviously he has a huge
agenda. He has suffered a lot of damage. As I said, there is a strange
vulnerability to him, which belies his true agenda, I suppose."
It sounds as if Snoke
has gone through a lot. Maybe he bears some scars from the Battle of Endor,
where the Rebellion made their last stand against the Empire at the end of
Return of the Jedi?
"No, he’s a new
character in this universe. It is very much a newly-introduced character,"
Serkis says. "He’s aware of what’s gone on, in the respect that he has
been around and is aware of prior events. I think it’d be fair to say that he
is aware of the past to a great degree."
Opening on
December 18, Star Wars: The Force Awakens also stars Carrie Fisher,
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam
Driver, Oscar Isaac, Domnhall Gleason, Gwendoline Christie, Max von
Sydow, Andy Serkis, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Crystal Clarke,
and Pip Andersen.
Source - EW
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