a villaint that Star Wars' Rian Johnson thought was 'fundamentally uninteresting' despite being the main villain of the trilogy at the time and being brought to life by the venerable Andy Serkis.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum announcement came with a statement from Andy Serkis, who provided the motion-capture performance and voice for Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning ...