Lydia Peckham had climbed one of the taller trees in her family’s apple orchard in New Zealand, strapping a camera to a neighboring branch with a bungee cord and placing herself opposite it.

The reason for Peckham’s impromptu jaunt through the foliage was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes . Unlike the other Planet of the Apes entries, this one would be populated with nearly all CGI apes, one of which Peckham had been asked to audition to play. “When I first got the audition, I thought, ‘Oh, my god, how am I gonna act like an ape in front of a white wall?’ It seemed like a recipe for disaster,” she remembers. She instead hatched the idea to do the self-tape from an apple tree.

Lydia Peckham had climbed one of the taller trees in her family’s apple orchard in New Zealand, strapping a

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