Getting into Games, the Gollum Way

Here's a story for all those folks wanting to get into the video games industry -- get into movies first, buy a house, pay a mortgage, and then have your mortgage broker introduce you to the head of a game studio*. It's a strange way of getting into the industry, but it worked for Andy Serkis, the actor who played Gollum and King Kong in Peter Jackson's movies. The story on BBC: "Mortgage leads Gollum actor into games tells the strange tale:

[Serkis'] mortgage advisor is the brother of the boss of Ninja Theory, Tameem Antoniades. When Antoniades found out about his brother's celebrity client, he asked him to pass on a trailer for the game. Once Serkis saw it, he wanted in.

* I don't actually recommend this path, it's a lot easier to get into this industry than what a lot of people think. You just have to be willing to sell your life for a couple of years.