Dave Bautista on Drax's Role in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 2 and Geeking Out with Kurt Russell
Director James Gunn recently talked about Drax in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and said he was blowing people's minds. Audiences weren't expecting to love this character so much in the first movie, and now people can't wait to see what's in store for him in the sequel.
The actor who plays Drax, Dave Bautista, recently talked with Collider about the character and his role in the sequel. We know that the character will have a more beefed up part in the story this time around, and Bautista talked about some of the things about his character that we'll see:
“It’s an extended version of the first film, for the Drax character. There’s just a lot more…most people’s first perception of Drax would be he’s just a big, muscly brute, and he’s just going to go in and be an all-action character. But he’s more funny, driven … there’s a lot more of that. He gets closer and more caring with the other Guardians, and they become more of a solid family in this one. If I had to put a tag on this second film I would say ‘family,’ that’s kind of the theme.”
I have no doubt that fans will fall in love with him all over again in Vol. 2! The actor then talked about working with Kurt Russell on the film. As you know, Russell plays Star-Lord's dad, who happens to be Ego the Living Planet. Bautista said:
“Yeah it’s so funny, I didn’t want to hit him with all of the fanboy questions right off the bat, but as soon as I got comfortable with him I did. He’s great and super down to the earth, he’s a very social guy and doesn’t like to separate himself from the younger cast, he’s got a lot of great stories, he’s very good looking (laughing) … he’s a very interesting guy!
"The first thing I asked him about was Big Trouble in Little China, I just wanted to know more about that, and what he thought about The Rock being recast as Jack Burton and he said, ‘Ah, I don’t care.’ And I said ‘Really?!’ I was really upset by that because to me, The Rock is not Jack Burton, like Chris Pratt would make a much better Jack Burton.
"I take that stuff very personally, because I’m a fan boy first, I am a geek at heart. So, he just didn’t care (inaudible) ‘Oh I’m sure he’ll do a great job’”… and then of course I asked Escape from New York questions, and we had a lot of good conversations about that.”
I want to sit down with Kurt Russell and have conversations with him about this stuff! That would be so freakin' cool! Regardless, it's cool to know that Bautista is just a big muscular geek