Lefties among us might recognise Andy Serkis. Of course he was bug-eyed hobbit Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Sure, he gave us a supremely tender King Kong. Yes, he was terrifyingly eloquent as serial killer Ian Brady in the television drama Longford, horribly creepy as French prisoner Rigaud in Little Dorrit and simply monstrous as the interrogator in Extraordinary Rendition. But there’s something else. Wasn’t he the fella who sold the Socialist Worker on the streets of London back in the early 90s? … He loves acting, he says, and does not intend to give it up, but he is turning more towards directing. He made a great little short film called Snake about a prostitute (played by his wife), tattoos, a mysterious bag of money and an unwanted kidney transplant. Filmed in black and white, it is creepy and cool and disturbingly funny. See the full article from “The Guardian”