Squadron 42: Behind the Scenes - Andy Serkis

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   [Music] so we are experimenting with the uh the vanor uh physicality and part of that is zero gravity using this this rig which has got a bungee on it cuz I can kind of move um from stations within the spaceship with a kind of Grace of a of a cat with with a sort of not not completely zero gravity but with a sense of being able to move and make big Leaps and Bounds with it kind of effortlessly really so the team we had with the the guys that did the rigging for Gravity uh which obviously they did a really nice job on the zero g and so we were using it to sort of do a low G environment which we were thinking that the Vandal

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   kingship has and to allow the the Thor to move around pretty quickly and do sort of bigger more live jumps so it was fun I enjoying it he's so great with performance capture I mean you know he's pretty much the guy that wrote the book on it uh it's his company we working with which is great it's been great actually I've really enjoyed of the team they're fantastic can't quite feel my inner thighs anymore but hey all in the pursuit of Art and happiness so we have Addy circus playing the th who ultimately will be the uh the sort of main antagonist and then we have Patrice he's playing the urai who is the leader of the clan good exercise good creative freedom a bit like being in a theater Workshop lots of fun Patrice is uh is trying to find a kind of Center

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   for his character and uh I'm going to do the same we're going to be hooked up the system so we'll be actually able to see the avatars for the first time just right now coming up right now you can actually see a my character drinking a cup of tea cuz all good vules need a cou of PG tips at the end of the day the scene that we're doing is them on the bridge starting the battle against the uh ueu Fleet it's a piece of plastic piping covered with markers and

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   green tape which represents a very uh symbolic ceremonial sword of the van this is the heart of your ship so it's like it's sort of like in ch so it can be and everything's going to start powering up it will look slightly more glamorous dangerous and powerful than it does at the moment shall both Andy and Patrice weren't speaking English obviously they were speaking vanandel uh which uh is a madeup language but a proper language that was create created by Britain Watkins who's a a sort of specialist in

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   creating languages and how she does it for um film so uh he's most recently doing the last couple of Star Treks [Laughter] Kong Lang apparently that's what it's called constructed language we had good direction um of course you had a great Andy Circus yeah the language is is uh is very gutural it's kind of lots of sounds and you know there's a lot of that going on yeah it's quite it's quite rich and it's very fun to do we'll be able to publish the actual language and people will be able to learn how to speak it and it has a combination of spoken words some signs for emphasis and then also

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   the vand Alla bioluminescence so they'll have sort of tone changes based on mood and stuff like that so it'll be very cool yes it is a r on Andy than Andy thank you it's nice to to have got to this point actually