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“I
walked into this basement and Owen just came towards me as an
ape, and there were just a bunch of them running around,” said
Allan, who plays a human named Mae.
“I was like ‘Here we go! This is gonna be the next six months of
my life,’” added the 22-year-old British actress.
The film’s lead, Owen Teague, who plays a chimpanzee named Noa,
went to "ape school," along with many other cast members to
prepare for their roles.
“We were working on the movement and the voices, and we had this
wonderful teacher, Alain Gauthier, who helped us find our bodies
as apes, but it was also a bonding experience for the whole ape
cast,” Teague said.
Disney’s 20th Century Fox film, directed by Wes Ball, serves as
the franchise’s 10th film in total and the fourth installment of
the “Planet of the Apes” reboot films.
It takes place 300 years after “War for the Planet of the Apes”
and follows young chimp Noa as he tries to protect his clan from
a corrupt monarch named Proximus Caesar, who warps the teachings
of the original Caesar.
Noa befriends Mae and an orangutan named Raka as they work
together to shape the destinies of both apes and humans.
The science-fiction film arrives in theaters on Friday.
Peter Macon, who portrays Raka, also appreciated the opportunity
to attend ape school to immerse himself in the ape world.
“School began with studying the skeletal structures of various
apes that we were taking on,” he said.
“Orangutans have very different skeletal structures than
gorillas, than chimpanzees, than bonobos, so they’re all
different,” he added.
He quickly realized that, as the only orangutan in the film, he
would have slower movements while all people playing different
types of apes could run, jump and participate in faster action.
For Kevin Durand, who plays the bonobo ape Proximus Caesar,
meeting his co-stars as apes before meeting them as their
real-life human selves was special.
“We all gave each other license by going into this world
together, and just believing in each other and really connecting
with each other,” Durand said.
“Out of those connections, is performances,” he added.
(Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Rollo Ross; Editing by Mary
Milliken and Jonathan Oatis)
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