{"id":10935,"date":"2022-02-08T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1580237"},"modified":"2022-02-08T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T15:17:29","slug":"andy-serkis-reveals-his-warhammer-game-role-he-doesnt-suffer-fools","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/andy-serkis-reveals-his-warhammer-game-role-he-doesnt-suffer-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Serkis reveals his Warhammer game role: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t suffer fools\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rob Leane\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 08 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Andy Serkis is joining the Warhammer universe, which fees like a perfect match of talent and IP.<\/p>\n

The iconic Gollum actor and Venom: Let There Be Carnage<\/a> director will play Vardan Kai, a Grand Master and Steward of the Armoury of Titan, who will guide the player-character in an upcoming video game called Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate \u2013 Daemonhunters. It is a tactical, single-player game where you control the powerful Grey Knights in a series of battles, under the tutelage of Serkis\u2019 Vardan.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive sit-down interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>, Serkis reveals that Vardan is \u201ca very authoritarian leader, and he doesn\u2019t suffer fools, and you don\u2019t see very much of a soft side to him. But he is someone who has to, by dexterous skills, manipulate this young novice to kind of carry out the tasks of the player, who he has a direct relationship with.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s about kind of being encouraging, but to serve your own means basically. He does feel a great responsibility to Titan. He\u2019s got a very high-ranking position there, and he\u2019s high up in the Grey Knights. So, basically, it\u2019s very important for the novice, the person who\u2019s undertaking the journey, to come up with the goods. So it\u2019s juggling \u2013 he\u2019s just about keeping hold of his people skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

Telling us about how he made his way into the mind of this character, Serkis says: \u201cI always imagined him to be kind of made of granite. I imagined his face as if it was carved from stone, that would probably suit him. He doesn\u2019t crack at all, he doesn\u2019t really show off. He doesn\u2019t reveal any of his own personal emotions. And so I was quite interested in how you can maybe see chinks of humanity in there, but not a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n