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I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

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Andy Serkis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 20
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Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
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