As Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes inches a bit closer to the time period that the original movie was set in, CinemaBlend talked with the movie’s new star about his thoughts on the movie that started it all.
When we spoke to Owen Teague, who got to ride horses in a mo-cap suit through the Australian wilderness as a teen ape named Noa, and CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud shared her own core memory of seeing 1968’s Planet of the Apes when she was a kid. She was rather terrified to see a world run by apes, and he could relate.
When we spoke to Owen Teague, who got to ride horses in a mo-cap suit through the Australian wilderness as a teen ape named Noa, and CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud shared her own core memory of seeing 1968’s Planet of the Apes when she was a kid. She was rather terrified to see a world run by apes, and he could relate.
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00:00i was wondering just for you um what maybe your first memory was of the franchise and what your
00:05kind of connections have been before joining this i think i think my first memories of of
00:10the franchise were also seeing the 68 one and being just so scared by it um i think that for
00:19some reason that's everybody's like memory of that movie is seeing it when they probably were
00:25too young to see it and being horrified um and i you know i watched it a couple months ago and and
00:35and i was like oh this really isn't that intense like this is this is a pretty chill movie um
00:42but there is still something about it that's a little bit unnerving and i i don't maybe it's
00:47like the ape costumes maybe it's charlton heston's teeth i don't know like it's it's
00:55i don't know um but yeah and then i remember i saw i saw rise and dawn and war all in theaters um
01:06because i was i was a huge anti-circus fan and and you know when i i had grown up with with his
01:12version of king kong um and so when i heard that he was playing another chimpanzee you know i was
01:19i was really excited and those like i guess yeah my my perception of the franchise before this was
01:26like they're the best blockbusters ever made so it's amazing that i get to be in them now