Two months ago we learned Andy Serkis had a prominent but undisclosed role in Star Wars: Episode VII. Today the actor talked about his work on that film and another high profile Disney property, Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Serkis has become synonymous with performance-capture since his turns as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and King Kong in, well, King Kong. He even launched his own mo-cap shop, the Imaginarium, consulting on films such as this year’s Godzilla.

Sitting down with SciFiNow, Serkis spoke about his company’s responsibilities with regard to Episode VII, saying, “the Imaginarium is providing all of the performance characters, and I myself am playing a character in it.” Sadly that doesn’t shed much light on the question of whether Serkis will perform via motion capture or live action, though fans of his work have been quick to assume the former.

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