Actor Andy Serkis is famous for, among other things, his incredible talent for motion-capture characters. One of his first high-profile roles of that type was Gollum from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings series. It was a celebrated performance and helped propel Serkis to other motion-capture roles, including Caesar from Planet of the Apes. But not everyone was a fan of Serkis’ motion-capture roles, including Gollum, all those years ago.

Serkis told GQ that he had “the role of the evangelist” for motion-capture roles as Gollum on The Lord of the Rings, though he gave credit to the characters Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars and Tom Hanks’ character in The Polar Express as examples of motion-capture characters before Gollum. For The Lord of the Rings, Serkis recalls people misunder…