As Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes inches a bit closer to the time period that the original movie was set in, CinemaBlend talked with the movie’s new star about his thoughts on the movie that started it all.

When we spoke to Owen Teague, who got to ride horses in a mo-cap suit through the Australian wilderness as a teen ape named Noa, and CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud shared her own core memory of seeing 1968’s Planet of the Apes when she was a kid. She was rather terrified to see a world run by apes, and he could relate.