Andy Serkis

Andy: (On the most challenging thing about performing in "The Cottage") When I first read the script, the thing I loved about it… Paul wrote this five years ago and it was prior to Shaun of the Dead and the modern stream of comedy-horror flicks. I just thought it was brilliantly written and a great character piece. You cared about the characters. It didn't feel like it was a horror film – it felt like it was a real film with real events happening to real people. So, I think the biggest challenge when we came to shoot it was to keep that as a straight arrow and to allow the comedy to come out of the emotional truth of the relationship of the characters and so on. There's a difference between reading it and actually pulling that off on screen… and yet appealing to the horror fans.

Andy: If I hear someone say something and they're 100 per cent about it then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

Andy: The human condition is taxed at the moment to quite a great degree. It's interesting because in this country we're not faced with oppressive regimes or wars or deep-seated cataclysmic events. It's still all about class. The divide [between rich and poor] seems to be getting larger. And there are so many people slipping through the net. Whereas for my generation people would sort themselves out with fist fights and it was a big thing to carry a knife, now it's almost become acceptable to carry guns. And that's quite a scary prospect. But you can see why it's happening.