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Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury
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He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
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- Simon Hattenstone
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Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury
8 hours ago
| The Guardian - Film News
| See recent The Guardian - Film News news
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He's very good at playing bad guys, so how will he handle a punk poet turned posthumous national treasure?
Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there's something else. Wasn't he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s?
Serkis says it was his days in the Swp, and his subsequent rejection of the party line, that made him the actor he is today. As a young socialist he was angry about so much: Thatcher, unemployment, racism, you name it. Actually, his anger went back further.
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- Simon Hattenstone
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