The ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Cast Can’t Stop Greeting Each Other as Primates: ‘That Is Never Going to Go Away’
variety.comJack Dunn The morning of the “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” premiere, stars of the film Peter Macon and Ras-Samuel discovered they were staying at the same hotel while getting breakfast.
And when they met eyes from either end of the buffet line, they did not greet each other with a wave or a simple hello, they did so as apes.
Embodying their characters, they dropped their shoulders and shuffled together, hooting and panting at the sight of a friend. “I’m sure we made a spectacle of ourselves,” Macon told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere Thursday. “[But] we met each other as apes first and human beings second.
So that is never going to go away.” As previously reported by Variety, the cast of “Kingdom” spent six weeks in “ape school,” where they learned to walk, speak, play and ride horses as their primate counterparts.
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