Andy Serkis
He is making a series about wax figure maker Madame Tussaud
Andy Serkis shows his true colors.
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Andy Serkis directs a series about museum founder Madame Tussaud. He promises a wild, “post-truth” punk fantasy.
Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings”, Caesar in “Planet of the Apes” or “King Kong”: Andy Serkis (58) has used motion capturing to help many fictional characters come to life on screen. Now the actor and director is shooting a biopic series about the woman who created deceptively real wax figures. “Madam!” tells the story of Marie Tussaud (1761-1850), the founder of the wax museum Madame Tussauds.
Madame Tussaud as “post-factual hangman’s daughter”
“Madam!” According to Andy Serkis, it should be “no ordinary historical drama”. Instead, he promises a “hilarious, crazy punk number”. An autobiography born from the mind of a “fabulous post-truth hangman’s daughter”.
“Marie knows one thing very well: when you tell your own life story, make it entertaining,” says Serkis via “Variety”. “Even if you have to invent something. And whatever happens, leave out the boring bits.” A start date for the series is not yet known.
This is the real Madame Tussaud
The real Marie Tussaud was born Marie Großholtz in Strasbourg in 1761, the daughter of an executioner. Her stepfather Philip Wilhelm Mathias Curtius built a wax museum in Paris. Marie learned the trade from him. During the French Revolution, she is said to have made wax casts from the severed heads of executed people.
She later moved to London and opened her famous museum there. When she died in 1850, she left an autobiography that is said to be very loose with the facts. A through ball for Andy Serkis.