Fantastic Four: Jamie Bell On Transforming Into The Thing

Jamie Bell (Turn) provided the motion-capture performance for The Thing/Ben Grimm in Josh Trank's Fantastic Four. Luckily, he has worked with motion-capture superstar Andy Serkis and his teachings have rubbed off on the 29-year-old actor.

"Obviously I'm not made of rocks and obviously I'm not 6 foot 8!" Bell during an interview with AOL. "It's about capturing the essence of a human being inside of that character when he is transformed and you do that through motion capture. It's a technique that my friend Andy Serkis has very much spearheaded -- he is the guru of performance capture. I've been lucky to work with him three or four times actually, so I very much consider him my mentor."

Bell understands that he has been bestowed a major role in a tentpole franchise.

"It's a huge responsibility," he said. "I think people were kind of confused when I was cast, but this is very much an origin story of these characters. I haven't seen the film yet. I'm very excited to see it, but what I can tell you is just from the making of the film and the journey that we've been on with it, it's very much an experience, it really is. I'm very flattered and humbled to be a part of it."

(via Huffington Post)

A contemporary re-imagining of Marvel's original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

Fantastic Four will land in theaters August 7, 2015.