“When I started doing Lord of the Rings, I liked the gamble.
But all of that started when he took a chance and said yes to playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Much of that started with his work on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that begins with Fellowship of the Ring, in which he portrayed Gollum.
While promoting the movie, Andy Serkis spoke with The Guardian and, while talking about his experience on Lord of the Rings, he revealed that he initially wasn’t interested in the role.