Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

I've done a fair amount of that stuff... when we did 'Lord of the Rings' the transformation sequence from Smeagol to Gollum was a 19-hour make-up job. You have to have a kind of zen button that you press and allow the mind to be focused in a certain way.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.