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Jackson describes his central character: “ We assumed that Kong is the last surviving member of his species.

He had a mother and a father and maybe brothers and sisters, but they ’ re dead.

He ’ s the last of the huge gorillas that live on Skull Island, and the last one when he goes ... there will be no more.

He ’ s a very lonely creature, absolutely solitary.

It must be one of the loneliest existences you could ever possibly imagine.

Every day, he has to battle for his survival against very formidable dinosaurs on the island, and it ’ s not easy for him.

He ’ s carrying the scars of many former encounters with dinosaurs.

I ’ m imagining he ’ s probably 100 to 120 years old by the time our story begins.

And he has never felt a single bit of empathy for another living creature in his long life ; it has been a brutal life that he ’ s lived .”