Why 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes’' New Star Still Finds The Original 1968 Film ‘A Little Bit Unnerving’
As Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes inches a bit closer to the time period that the original movie was set in, CinemaBlend talked with the movie’s new star about his thoughts on the movie that started it all.
When we spoke to Owen Teague, who got to ride horses in a mo-cap suit through the Australian wilderness as a teen ape named Noa, and CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud shared her own core memory of seeing 1968’s Planet of the Apes when she was a kid. She was rather terrified to see a world run by apes, and he could relate.
When we spoke to Owen Teague, who got to ride horses in a mo-cap suit through the Australian wilderness as a teen ape named Noa, and CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud shared her own core memory of seeing 1968’s Planet of the Apes when she was a kid. She was rather terrified to see a world run by apes, and he could relate.
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00:00I was wondering just for you, um, what maybe your first memory was of the franchise and what your
00:05kind of connections have been before joining this? I think I think my first memories of the
00:11franchise were also seeing the 68 one and being just so scared by it. I think that for some reason
00:20that's everybody's like memory of that movie is seeing it when they probably were too young to
00:26see it and being horrified. Um, and I, you know, I watched it a couple months ago and, and,
00:35and I was like, Oh, this really isn't that intense. Like this is, this is a pretty chill movie. Um,
00:42but there is still something about it. That's a little bit unnerving. And I, I don't,
00:47maybe it's like the eight costumes, maybe it's Charlton Heston's teeth. I don't know. Like it's,
00:53it's, I don't know. Um, but yeah. And then I remember I saw, I saw Rise and Dawn and War
01:03all in theaters. Um, cause I was, I was a huge Andy Serkis fan and, and, and, you know, when I,
01:11I had grown up with, with his version of King Kong. Um, and so when I heard that he was playing
01:16another chimpanzee, you know, I was really excited. And those like, I guess, yeah, my,
01:24my perception of the franchise before this was like, they're the best blockbusters ever made.
01:29So it's amazing that I get to be in them now.