"Andrew wasn't an actor — he was my director of photography. He was Australian, and he came to New Zealand to shoot The Fellowship of the Ring. It became a real partnership. A director of photography is the person who arranges the lighting and camera work, and our collaboration was pretty intense. We had a lot of arguments. But being an only child, I eventually came to think of Andrew as a brother.
We went on to shoot King Kong together, and by then we had become a true creative partnership. We worked together film after film, and after The Hobbit he moved on to other projects.
He wasn't really old when he died. It was a terrible blow to me, losing Andrew from my life.
It wasn't a conscious decision, but after that I made a documentary, and then I worked on The Beatles: Get Back. I've found myself avoiding drama films, because I couldn't imagine making one with someone who wasn't Andrew. In a strange way, it changed the course of my career. In the last twelve years I haven't made a drama film. It's taken me a long time to get over it."
Эндрю Лесни был австралийским кинооператором и многолетним директором по фотографии фильмов Питера Джексона. Именно он отвечал за визуальный облик трилогии «Властелин колец», а также работал над фильмами «Кинг Конг», «Милые кости» и трилогией «Хоббит». За работу над «Братством кольца» Лесни получил премию «Оскар» за лучшую операторскую работу.
Лесни скончался в апреле 2015 года от сердечного приступа в возрасте 59 лет.
Источник - theoneringnet
