'Breathe' director Andy Serkis & producer Jonathan Cavendish

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Actor Andy Serkis is best known for his pioneering motion capture work. Now Serkis has stepped behind the camera to direct the new movie Breathe. The film is a very personal one for producer Jonathan Cavendish; it tells the true story of his remarkable parents. Serkis and Cavendish tell us why they wanted to make an old-fashioned love story like Breathe, give a Jungle Book update and talk about some of the new projects in the works at their performance capture studio Imaginarium.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:04.7	It was literally a major sort of epiphany, really.
0:07.8	I'd just been playing this three and a half foot ring junkie,
0:10.8	and now I'm going to be playing a 25-foot gorilla.
0:13.0	This is surely the end of typecasting.
0:15.5	Actor Andy Circus was a pioneer of performance capture.
0:19.0	Playing Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films and the title
0:21.7	character in King Kong opened his eyes to a new world of possibility. Now Circus has gone
0:27.5	behind the camera directing the new film, Breathe, an old-fashioned love story about triumph over
0:32.9	adversity. Breathe is based on the life of Robin Cavendish, who was stricken with polio in 1958 and paralyzed
0:40.3	from the neck down. He became a powerful advocate for the rights of the severely disabled.
0:45.3	Circus came to the project through his business partner, Jonathan Cavendish, and this wasn't just another script.
0:51.3	Breathe tells the inspiring story of Jonathan Cavendish's remarkable parents.
0:56.3	But first on the news banter, Hollywood is still obsessed with the downfall of Harvey Weinstein
1:01.6	and Amazon Studios chief Roy Price. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.
1:10.2	I am joined by my ally in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.
1:14.7	Hello, Matt.
1:15.3	Hi there.
1:16.3	So this has been quite a couple of weeks in Hollywood.
1:19.5	The fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal still continuing.
1:23.5	It helped me, actually, in a story that I had been trying to break for quite a while.
1:27.9	I had a source, Issa Hackett.
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