He then repeated his actions wearing a special suit marked with dots that were monitored by 25 cameras and used to generate a computer image. Serkis acted every scene featuring Gollum. there would be no one person taking responsibility for the psychological journey of the character,' Serkis said. 'He's such a psychologically complicated character that if you'd had 40 animators doing their separate shots. 'I had a lot of lower back injuries because I made this decision to make him crawl because he's an addict and I wanted to reflect that sense of desperation.' Asked what he would do if he had the all-powerful but corrupting ring that is the focus of the trilogy, Serkis said 'I would banish all religions first of all.' Serkis, 39, auditioned to provide the voice-over for a computer-generated Gollum but director Peter Jackson was so impressed with his physical presence that he built the character on the actor's own movements using the latest technology. 'Gollum' juice which was honey and lemon and ginger and fruit teas and stuff,' he said. When they get rid of it they get fur balls and they're sick and that became 'Gollum', 'Gollum'.' A classically trained stage actor, Serkis said playing the role of a creature obsessed with trying to seize the magic ring he calls 'my precious' was challenging both for body and voice. 'They lick the fur off their bodies, then it gets stuck in the back of their throats. 'I actually found the voice from watching my cats at home,' he told journalists in Berlin ahead of the European premiere of the last part of the 'Rings' trilogy, The Return of the King. Andy Serkis, the British actor who plays the bulging-eyed, schizophrenic cave-dweller Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, said yesterday he studied his cats to develop his character's sinister throaty voice.

Voice of gollum in lord of the rings