Reddit, r/lotr, accessed 28 August 2019.ģ. "TIL that the voice actor for Gollum, Andy Serkis, used as his inspiration the voice of Gurgi from Disney's "the Black Cauldron" movie, listening to him talk is really eerie! This clip sounds exactly like Gollum!". Gurgi's performance in the animated movie would go on to inspire Andy Serkis when portraying the Lord of the Rings character Gollum/Smeagol in Jackson's rendering of the books by Tolkien, both in the Rings Trilogy and the prequel trilogy around The Hobbit.Ģ. Has Serkis himself, or anyone else involved in the production of the Peter Jackson films, confirmed or denied that his portrayal was inspired in part by Byner's Gurgi? Has Serkis at least commented on the resemblance?ġ. But I am wondering whether that is the whole story.
I know that Serkis has said that his portrayal was inspired, apart from Tolkien's writings, by the sound of his cat coughing up a hairball. 3,4,5 And while it should therefore not be surprising that any two actors' interpretations of the characters should have some similarities, the resemblance of Byner's voicing to Serkis's is uncanny-far more so than it is to other portrayals of Gollum, such as those of Peter Woodthorpe (in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings) and Brother Theodore (in the Rankin–Bass Hobbit). Of course, even before the films, literary scholars and critics had remarked upon the commonalities of the two characters as written in the source novels, particularly with respect to their speech patterns.
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