Drumming gorilla required a proctologist?!

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The Daily Mail has a comprehensive write-up on exactly how the production team pulled off a realistic gorilla playing along to the music and grooving for Cadbury.

The video website, featuring Phil Collins’ In The Air Tonight, has been a big success for Cadbury, their ad agency Fallon, and even Collins himself (his 1981 song was re-released and entered the Top 20 again).

Our original post on the drumming gorilla can be found here.

It wasn’t all fun and games for the gorilla suit operator, however… apparently an on-set proctologist was needed to secure various bits of robotics.

Heh. Check the photo at left, featured in the Daily Mail story. Kinda gives new meaning to the song’s lyrics “I’ve been waiting for this moment for all of my life…” [dh]