The thing about the Skeksis is when you meet them in our film and you meet The Emperor, yes, they're on top of him. This is the Dark Crystal on steroids to the power of 10. It's the same way, I think, if you love Dark Crystal. I've just seen the films." I beg them or bully them or something to read the books. Once in a blue moon, very occasionally, they go, "Oh, I haven't read the books. It's a little bit like sometimes I run into Harry Potter fans and ask them what do they favor, the books or the films. It's the entire world would have been expanded in a very satisfying way. The characters you know, the world you know, but it's been so enormously expanded and so fully realized with using the best 21st century craftsmanship. I think it ticks all the boxes for anyone who wants a nostalgia trip. Isaacs: Well, I think lots of fans won't expect to see the story as much as they understand some of the origins.
THE DARK CRYSTAL SKEKSIS SERIES
I wanted to ask you what do you think is something surprising in this series about Skekso that longtime fans of the franchise won't necessarily expect to see from him? In Age of Resistance, he's more so in his prime. I'd never given a performance where 90% of it is already given and is recorded on film.Īs somebody who is now very familiar with Skekso, in the original film, fans knew him as this elderly emperor that everyone just kept waiting on to die. It was extremely collaborative and it was a fun, new challenge since I'd never done that before. Even when he was out of shot and you could see the top of his head, he'd just go, "Yeah, do it again," "No, do it again," "No, he cares more," or "He's angry," or whatever. Although he would slip down out of shot, hugely bloodshot eyes rimmed in red. We'd do sessions until five in the morning for him, and then he'd go on and do other people after me. And then Louis is a fabulously charming but very exacting task master, so he'd be on Skype from L.A., and it'd be 1:00 in the morning in L.A. I have to ADR as it's called I have to match the mouth flaps while I'm speaking, so you're creative within very tight parameters.
This is real puppetry, so I have to match. they've done the voice, and the mouth flaps have moved. Somebody else, the puppeteer, has already been The Emperor, and. This is probably the most collaborative thing I've ever done in the sense that the performance is already shot. We came up with something that seemed to fit the body language. He went, "No, I can't do that." And I went, "Well, I won't tell anyone." He went, "No, I can't do that because you're the first person to record." I went, "Oh, damn." Actually, on the very first day, I said to him, "Louis, while we're trying to come up with this voice, maybe you can play me what some of the other people have done," to work out what sort of vocal universe we live in and just see how we're talking. He progressively has some health issues, so those things will affect how he speaks. Plus, he's got a fake nose that he takes off occasionally and he's got the particularly some teeth badly in need of orthodontistry, which might make things come out weirdly. After that, he was on Skype from Los Angeles, and I just looked at the sketches of the big, alligator, dragon, reptilian face and what sound might be coming out of that. I looked at the artwork with Louis because the first session, he was in the room. There's no point trying to do an impression of the original, and so I went in. What are we going to sound like? I often start with the voice anyway, but what I'm going to sound like. And then how do I go about creating it? Well, the first thing was to go with just the voice.
They were doing ten hours of it at Netflix, and they'd already shot with, who I was a huge fan of. It turns out they weren't redoing the movie. When I doing it again, I thought, well, why would you redo that movie? It doesn't make any sense. I remember thinking, god, that was smart of him. Almost nobody buying a ticket knew what they were getting into, and they all left having had a much richer experience than they'd planned. I'm thinking how smart he was to use this currency in the world, to use his popularity, to sucker people in to the cinema to deliver this extraordinary gut-punch of a story, and that he could take these beloved creatures with the craft and skill he had in shaping them to make something that was so different, and deal with themes that are so complex and dark and resolute.
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