![]() Has Serkis himself, or anyone else involved in the production of the Peter Jackson films, confirmed or denied that his portrayal was inspired in part by Byner's Gurgi? Has Serkis at least commented on the resemblance?ġ. But I am wondering whether that is the whole story. I know that Serkis has said that his portrayal was inspired, apart from Tolkien's writings, by the sound of his cat coughing up a hairball. ![]() 3,4,5 And while it should therefore not be surprising that any two actors' interpretations of the characters should have some similarities, the resemblance of Byner's voicing to Serkis's is uncanny-far more so than it is to other portrayals of Gollum, such as those of Peter Woodthorpe (in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings) and Brother Theodore (in the Rankin–Bass Hobbit). Of course, even before the films, literary scholars and critics had remarked upon the commonalities of the two characters as written in the source novels, particularly with respect to their speech patterns. ![]()
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