That’s amazing!'"
“He’s a big part of why I’m an actor at all.
It’s such an honor.”
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“For this, I really wanted to get it right.”
It’s really the same thing.
After months of training, Teague felt prepared to go into the first day of filming.
Owen Teague on the set of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’.Owen Teague/20th Century Studios
But there was some monkey business during his very first scene that gave him pause.
I’m still figuring it out.'
And [directorWes Ball] was like, ‘Yeah, we joke about that.'"
‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’.Owen Teague/20th Century Studios
Teague laughs about how brutally honest Ball was in that moment.
“Which is good.
You want that,” he adds.
“And it’s one of the reasons I love him.
But it was intimidating.
It’s terrifying to lead a movie like this.
So there was a learning curve.
And there’s a learning curve to getting used to the technology of it all too.
It reminded me of why I became an actor.
It brought the joy back to the work that sometimes you lose.
It was really what I needed to do.”
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He laughs again as he admits that he found a way to work around any spoiler photo security policies.
“At the end of it, I realized I had this documentation of the entire production.
Check out more of Teague’s behind-the-scenes photos from set below:
