Andy Serkis has defended the apparent lack of diversity in the cast of the forthcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, saying the film will not pursue “politically correct” casting simply to tick boxes.
The film, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Serkis, is set between The Hobbit trilogy and The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series. It follows Gandalf and Aragorn as they race to find Gollum before Sauron’s forces can capture him and extract what he knows about the One Ring.
