Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)
Louis stars in movie ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’
ACTING is an inherited trait for 14-year-old Louis (pronounced “LUee”) Ashbourne Serkis, the star of the modern-day Arthurian-legend adventure
Would Be King.
The Kid Who
Not only is Louis’s father, Andy Serkis, an award-winning actor (Klaue in Gollum in trilogy and Snoke in but his mother, aunt and older siblings act as well.
“I grew up on film sets, like as a baby on the actor said. “I started to realise when I was 6 or 7 that it would be quite cool to entertain people for a living.”
At that point the young Londoner
Black Panther,
The Lord of the Rings
The Last Jedi),
‘King Kong’,” “just got into it”, booking auditions and early roles, the first of which was a bit part in 2015’s grown-up mystery drama
Louis has racked up nine film and television credits, a mix of liveaction, animated and motion-capture work.
But when it came to securing his leading role in
Louis wasn’t even sure what the movie was about initially.
“I was walking home from school, and my mum rang me and said, ‘You’ve got to come home now, you have this audition’,” he said.
“I didn’t know anything about it, and I did my first audition in my sports (uniform).”
Be King,
Child 44.
The Kid Who Would
Despite wearing his gym clothes to the first screen test, Louis scored a second audition, a one-on-one with the director Joe Cornish, for the big part.
Alex is a 12-year-old schoolboy who can somehow wield the sword in the stone and must rally a group of “knights,” including two school bullies, to fight Morgana, an evil sorceress who wants to reclaim the sword – and Britain – for herself.
Louis explained that like most In addition to brushing up on his Arthurian trivia, Louis had to do a “load of” physical training to prepare for using a medieval sword, wearing armour and riding horseback. – Washington Post