Andy Serkis: The Real Challenge Was Finding Caesars Voice In Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Konsta Helenius [Mokz4DajpAj]

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Andy Serkis gets back down to some serious monkey business in Dawn of the Planet of the hayden panettiere daughter Apes the second instalment of the origins trilogy

The borsa new tale picks up ten years after the events of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the hit which rebooted the fabled chimp franchise in 2011, wherein chimps, injected with a serum meant to cure human brain damage, develop great intelligence.

The same serum sparks a global "simian flu" virus, which as Dawn of the Planet of the Apes begins has hit the human race hard.

There are so few people left, the apes think we may be extinct.

A chance encounter with a group of survivors hoping to restart a remote dam-based power plant leads both camps to question whether the two species can coexist. The precarious peace that follows is threatened by those on both sides who feel war is inevitable.

Serkis reprises his role as genetically modified chimp Caesar, now the leader of a growing ape community on the outskirts of a San Francisco that is slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The motion-capture maestro -- who also gave us Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit -- has his basic monkey moves down after "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," and playing King Kong for Peter Jackson's remake.

But with Caesar now walking on two feet and talking, his latest performance still proved lotito a fresh challenge.

"The biggest challenge really this time round was finding Caesar's voice actually and finding a voice that felt real and organic, that was coming out of an ape that was learning to speak, but at the same time wasn't overly articulate and wasn't linguistically too developed," explains Serkis.

"Caesar is now more physically upright and his countenance is very furrowed, because he's had the weight of responsibility on his shoulders for such a long time. The language, finding that way of pushing up air through your larynx ... I actually ended up using a mouth guard so that the tongue didn't over articulate and hit the back of the teeth. It was things like that, which were all experimentation," he adds.

It opens in the UK on Thursday 17th July.

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