When we spoke to Serkis on the set of War for the Planet of the Apes, he was asked about this and whether he felt a new category for motion capture actors should be created, saying “Absolutely not.”
Fans felt this way, but the Oscar support for motion capture actors never came.
“The point of the matter is that we’re actors playing roles and they happen to be in this instance, apes.
Now, there are great A-list actors who are using performance characters because they realize there is a perception shift.”