MY PRESSURES

English actor, director, and motion-capture pioneer Serkis is a thrill-seeker in life—he writes here of his successful “solo assault” on the Matterhorn—and also in his art. His attitude is distilled in his initial response to being asked to play Ulysses Klaue in Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): “Charismatic South African villain who gets his arm chopped off? Count me in.” Such an adventuresome spirit can’t be expected to write a straightforward memoir or even to give it a straightforward title. (This one plays on Gollum’s catchphrase, “my precious.”) Periodically interrupting Serkis’ c

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