Kevin Durand in the Q studio in Toronto.
The veteran Canadian actor talks to Q’s Tom Power about playing the tyrannical bonobo ruler Proximus Caesar in the new film.film franchise — the Canadian actor Kevin Durand plays the tyrannical ruler Proximus Caesar, an ambitious and cunning bonobo who taught himself how to read so he could study the human race.
"I believe he's a biologist as well," Durand tells Power. "And so the way that he approached it was he broke down the apes anatomically … and basically presented to us the differences between the bonobo anatomy and the human anatomy. "I answered as Proximus, and he was born," Durand says in the voice of his character. "It was this organic thing. I never thought about where the voice was going to come from; it all came through the movement."From the time the script first came across his desk, Durand says he started imagining a history for Proximus that isn't necessarily in the film. While his character is the film's main antagonist, he doesn't necessarily see him as being a villain.
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