Gollum Nets Garner

Proving that donning a fetching wetsuit and gargling in an unfeasibly creepy voice can do wonders for your career, Brit actor Andy Serkis has landed his first part post-Gollum opposite no less than Alias and Daredevil starlet, Jennifer Garner. Presumably ditching the rasping tones and deathly hue of his last role as The Lord of the Rings' Smeagol, Serkis will next appear in romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 in which Garner plays a rather confused 29-year-old. In a typically barmy plot to make even the most contrived of screenwriters proud, the movie follows a 13-year-old girl named Jenna who dreams of being popular. To this end, she agrees to play a humiliating kissing game, Seven Minutes in Heaven, at her birthday party only to emerge at the end of it to find herself five days shy of her 30th birthday. We told you it was barmy. Serkis will play the boss of the adult Jenna throughout all this malarkey which also counts Mark Ruffalo and up-and-coming actor Samuel Ball amongst its cast.