{"id":619898,"date":"2026-05-02T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:48:08","slug":"andy-serkis-didnt-really-know-who-snoke-was-while-filmingstar-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/619898\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis didn’t really know who Snoke was while filmingStar Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andy Serkis is making the press rounds at the moment, as he promotes the release of his upcoming animated fart musical, Animal Farm<\/a>. That included a stop at Josh Horowitz\u2019s\u00a0Happy Sad Confused\u00a0podcast<\/a>, where the actor and director revealed at least one way he and\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0fans were simpatico about his character Snoke in the franchise\u2019s sequel trilogy, i.e., having no fucking clue what that guy\u2019s deal actually was.<\/p>\n

Serkis was, admittedly, a bit more diplomatic about it, calling the Supreme Leader \u201cthe one character that was a massive challenge,\u201d on account of him constantly \u201cevolving, in terms of writing, as we were going along.\u201d Which certainly\u00a0seems\u00a0like a nice way of saying that nobody involved had a handle on who the character was meant to be, right up until he got chopped in half halfway through The Last Jedi<\/a>. (Also\u00a0a surprise to Serkis, as it happens, who describes reading the film\u2019s script in a vault somewhere, thinking, \u201cOh, this is getting really good!\u2019 and then \u201cOh, right, you\u2019ve just been cut in half, bye-bye.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The whole thing honestly sounds like kind of a pain in the ass, even for a performer whose career was largely built on the ability to be the best in the world at being the guy on set in the form-fitting suit with all the dots glued to his head. Serkis notes that he spent all of The Force Awakens<\/a>\u00a0as a hologram, without actually knowing who his character was supposed to be, and even in The Last Jedi\u2014where, he says, he got some handle on his character\u2014he was still stuck up on a big-ass throne, miles away from scene partners Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver. All of which feels kind of symptomatic of the sequel trilogy, which, even at its best, often carried the fingerprints of a movie trilogy written piecemeal, and without any clear ending in mind. (J.J. Abrams\u2019 The Rise Of Skywalker <\/a>did eventually strongly imply that Snoke was some kind of genetically engineered puppet of Emperor Palpatine, who returned, somehow.)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the interview, Serkis says basically nothing about his upcoming\u00a0Lord Of The Rings\u00a0film\u00a0The Hunt For Gollum, which he\u2019s both starring in and directing, and noted that, as far as he\u2019s concerned, his\u00a0other Star Wars\u00a0character,\u00a0Andor\u2018s Kino Loy, is still alive out there somewhere, happily drunk on the Empire\u2019s dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis is making the press rounds at the moment, as he promotes the release of his upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-619898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}