Giancarlo Esposito on Motion Capture Acting and the Secret to Playing a Good Villain
Giancarlo Esposito on how he felt about acting in a motion capture suit for the video game, Far Cry 6, and his thoughts on portraying villains.
Toby Kebbell on Motion Capture Roles: “You’re not really doing it for the glory. It’s more for the duty of performance”
I consider acting a craft. I’ve got to pay my shillings and present a masterpiece in order to get into the guild, but I’m just trying to learn what this craft is.” – Toby Kebbell
Ellen Page on Her Experience Doing Motion Capture: “It’s like being six years old. You have to imagine everything”
Go back one hundred years and the only options actors had to display their craft were the theater and the still-in-its-infancy movies. Radio and television opened up more opportunities in the following decades, and more recently the internet has allowed actors to show their work instantly on a worldwide scale.
Andy Serkis on Motion Capture: “It is a tool that enables you to enter into the world of your character. I think of it as digital makeup”
“In terms of acting, though, if you’re playing a highly stylized character whose physicality is the first thing on your mind, there’s a whole acting language that you have to learn.”