![]() The task of translating Zahn’s performance into a fully realized, photo-realistic ape fell to the VFX artists at Weta Digital. ![]() “How do they sit? What are they focusing on? I would just study them.” “The interesting thing is I found the most compelling videos were of chimps that were just sitting there, doing nothing,” he said. In the run-up to shooting, Zahn watched countless YouTube videos of chimps in zoos to try to get in the proper monkey head space. “He was so nakedly emotional in that vulnerable way that the character needed to be.” “I knew Steve was going to make me laugh, but we did this heartbreaking scene about Bad Ape’s past and he made me cry,” Reeves said. ![]() ![]() Reeves set up a Skype meeting with Zahn, who was in Puerto Rico at the time shooting the erstwhile Amazon series “Mad Dogs.” He asked the actor, who has frequently been cast as a comic sidekick, to try reading a few scenes. ![]()
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