For many, he is still Gollum, King Kong, César de The planet of the apes Or even Captain Haddock of the animated film Dye By Steven Spielberg. For more than three decades, Andy Serkis has been recognized as a chameleon actor, a specialist in difficult roles and movement capture. The British defines himself as a man of challenges, a lover of different and enriching experiences. What he likes are the complex characters that help him understand each other a little better.
“In the past I have played very dark characters and part of my research to embody them was to try to understand themselves, being honest with himself,” Andy Serkis explains to Tech & Co. “I am fascinated as an actor by the people who do what I have played, who have sometimes crossed certain lines, their interior thoughts that have materialized.”
Renoir, a dark and tormented character
Because their choices have often attracted to the tormented characters, with a dark side and the possibility of giving them another dimension. The antipodes of sweet, calm man and stated that he is in maintenance. “We all have an inner voice, moments when we probably have very dark thoughts and horrible things. But we do not put them into practice or execution,” he said. It is almost logically that the role of renewing, to be strange and tormented in video games. Clear Oscure: Expedition 33He had to fall.
The title developed by Montpellier Studio Sandfall Interactive embeds the players in the steps of expedition 33, a party to try to eliminate the painting, a strange creature that is very serious in a decrease monolith every year. Therefore, it seals the fate of the inhabitants of the registered age. At the head of the expedition and also condemned to “scrub”, Gustave and his men intersect for the first time to renew when they reach the land of the continent, hostile where the painting lives.
Demonstrating a certain violence of his first appearance, Renoir is an enigma for the expedition and the players. For a long time it has been greater than the annual elimination age, in a world where residents are getting younger. “Renoir appears as a mysterious man, an extremely malicious, dark and threatening force,” describes Andy Serkis without wanting to say too much to maintain the mystery for the launch of the game on April 24.
But what he liked on paper is this mixed mixture of “extreme violence” and “multiple facets of his personality.” “He carries a lot of pain and anxiety. And we will gradually understand why he suffers from all these emotions,” said the actor who also advances the ambivalence of his tormented character, but ready to do anything to protect his family.
A gallery of film and video game
Dark counterweight of Gustave, one of the heroes, Renoir is a psychologically rich character, a blessing for Andy Serkis, which this time only lends his voice to the character of the pixels, along with a sacred gallery of actors, stars of the small screen or the famous voice of the video game (Charlie Cox alias Reckless, Kirsty Rider/Sandman, English Jennifer/Baldur Puerta 3Ben Starr/Final Fantasy XVI).
Andy Serkis did not participate in the capture of movements, produced by another actor. Another different exercise for him who is more accustomed to “embody” his virtual roles. “When you work in a character already created physically, you must find a way to create a voice that corresponds to what he sees visually, not only to the appearance of the character, but also to his physique,” says King Kong’s interpreter.
Without being able to trust his own game, his expressions and the reactions that would be his in a given situation, he knows that he must seek to “project a voice to a physique that already exists, to take a certain number of hypotheses that are physically creative and that correspond to this.” And for that, Andy Serkis also greets the help provided by Guillaume Brooche, creative director of Clear Oscure: Expedition 33and Jennifer Svedberg-Eye, screenwriter and director of the voices. “As they had already produced the capture of movement, they had very clear ideas of who was renewing. It is great to have this clarity when you work in the voice, in isolation, without the other actors,” he emphasizes the actor who had to find a fair balance between his own intentions and the restrictions imposed by the game.
“The actors have become an important part of the video game industry”
With Renoir, Andy Serkis adds a vocal rope to his arc already supplied. The video game has brought it for some years these additional challenges that you appreciate both to “better create a link with the public” through their roles. “When the games became much more immersive in the early 2000s, they began to integrate and create kinematics that were more than simple narration fragments, but that in reality they used a huge amount of emotion and promoted it to the next stage of the game, I wanted to embark on this adventure,” he entrusts the actor who created his company the imaginarium almost 15 years ago. “
Actor, director, producer and versatile man, Andy Serkis knows how to do everything. The variety and power of video games can only adapt to it.
This is all that conquered him from the first meetings around the project. Clear Oscure: Expedition 33. Because a challenge is nothing without an artistic background that is able to seduce him and attract him to his limbo. “Clear Oscure: Expedition 33It was that: the universe, the beauty of this world and the in -depth research of history, both visual and emotionally, “summarizes the interested part. A perfect cocktail for a new strong narrative experience, with a character between shadow and light, humanity and monstrosity. Finally, the very essence of the game of interactive sand fall that could only be adequate.
Clear Oscure: Expedition 33 – Available on April 24 on PS5, Xbox and PC series.
Source: BFM TV
