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Planet of the Apes

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🗓️ 10 August 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We’re going ape this week when host Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to Andy Serkis from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and primate expert and paleoanthropologist Dr. Ian Tattersall. Read more and listen to the full show at: http://www.startalkradio.net/show/planet-of-the-apes

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk.

0:05.0

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.6

Star Talk begins right now.

0:15.6

Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.

0:25.0

I'm your personal astrophysicist.

0:27.2

I serve as director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium

0:30.4

at the American Museum of Natural History.

0:32.7

My host today, the one, the only.

0:35.4

Is there more than one of you?

0:36.6

Not that I know.

0:37.4

The one, the only, Eugene Merman.

0:39.4

Hello.

0:41.7

Today, we'll be talking about the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

0:47.5

And my interview with Guessu.

0:50.4

I got an interview with the lead ape.

0:54.0

The person who plays the ape.

0:55.6

No, it was the lead.

0:56.8

Just to be clear.

0:58.6

Andy Circus, he played Caesar in the movie.

1:03.3

He's considered the king of performance capture technology.

1:07.8

Yeah.

1:08.8

Because it wasn't just some animation that he just then voiceovered.

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