Watch GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Director James Gunn Do The Baby Groot Dance
Some of you might know this already, but here's a cool piece of Guardians of the Galaxy trivia: writer/director James Gunn was the motion capture model for the great end sequence of dancing baby Groot. He told Yahoo last year:
“Baby Groot dancing is 100 percent me. I was too embarrassed for anyone to be there, so I made everyone leave the room and I set up a camera and I videotaped myself dancing. Then I sent the video to the animators and had them animate over that. I begged them not to leak the video! Two of my closest friends came to an early screening and said ‘Hey, I recognize those moves! That’s you dancing isn’t it?!’”
James Gunn, his brother Sean Gunn (who provided motion capture work for Rocket Raccoon, as well as playing Yondu's sidekick Kraglin in the film), and Michael Rooker were guests on Doug Benson's Doug Loves Movies podcast earlier this week at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood (listen to the episode here), and Instagram user Nerdstak caught a special moment on video: Gunn (far right) recreating his famous baby Groot dance. It's not long before Rooker and the younger Gunn brother get in on the action, too. Check out the video below: