Can the two sides co-exist or is conflict inevitable?
That is the heart of the story that Reeves and Serkis set out to tell inDawn.
You know, the temperature and the pitching of where Caesar ought to be.
I went to USC and I snuck into UCLA.
And I said, You know, Im about to do my student film.
Can you tell me about rehearsal?
And he said, Yeah, Ill talk to you aboutThe Godfatherand how we rehearsed.
And he told this story he said, Well, we did some theater games.
And I always remembered that.
Andy was Don Corleone.
They were all following him and that stuff was really important.
All of that came absolutely through Andy and through rehearsal, so its a big yes to answer that.
Andy Serkis:But you were incredibly receptive.
And so it was great to be able to bring in the detail.
Andy Serkis: whos able to bring it back to what its really about.
And thats not blowing smoke up your ass even for a second.
Weve got to shoot the movie in this amount of days.
Matt Reeves:That was everything.
I mean to me that was the thing.
I just needed to understand the process.
And when I saw the process the mystery went away.
But heres the crazy thing.
We had some huge scenes for a movie like this.
And we had no prep because everything was so accelerated.
But I never work that way.
Just trying to discover the scene together.
And that part, even for giant scenes, was exactly how we approached every scene.
We always started in an intimate place and that all come down to Andy and the other actors.
Matt Reeves:Yeah.
Would you say that Caesar is the height of your work with this performance capture technology so far?
Andy Serkis:I dont know.
Performance capture is a method of facilitating capturing an actors performance or filming it.
It really is just another bunch of cameras.
or Do you have to keep moving all the time?
It was a real voyage of exploration.
Andy Serkis:Weve already done it, yeah.
Will this have a finite ending?
And the ultimate end of that story isPlanet of the Apes.
I feel like Caesar takes on like a mythic status.
And he goes from being a revolutionary to then being a leader and the complexity of that.
Hes Moses, you know.
So the idea of that, to me, is lets not get to the end yet.
Theres a lot to do on the way there thats worth exploring.
Well I hope we meet some human mutants down the line because theyre always fun.
Matt Reeves:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
You start to see these things that we know are part of the later canon.
We are aware of them and they are a part of this.
How you get to that is whats interesting.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apesopens in theaters Friday, July 11.
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