Rhys Ifans talks about Playing Lizard in THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

Actor Rhys Ifans recently sat down with Cinemablend at the Toronto Film Festival and ended up talking about what it was like playing The Lizard in in Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man. Here's what the actor had to say...

The majority of the time I'm me, I'm a human, not a Lizard. That's hard enough. I did have the CGI suit for certain scenes. The Lizard is 9 feet tall. There was one day that I went on set and they had a double, a big big guy, playing me, as the Lizard. I looked at it and I went "No." Following that Marc [Webb, the director] let me know all the physicality, all the physicality you'll see in the Lizard is my own.

I had a green suit on, and then this cardboard head, and these big claws. It was the most f*cking insane… Each and every time you see the Lizard, the technology is so advanced now that when the Lizard's eyes move, they're my eyes. If I frown or show any emotion, they're my emotions. That's how spectacularly advanced technology is.

If you were at The Amazing Spider-Man panel at Comic-Con this year then you saw what the lizard in all his glory, if you didn't see it, just know that it's big and it's menacing looking. I really like the look of the Lizard and I think he's going to be a kick-ass creepy villain in this film. 

I'm really looking forward to this movie, and it's looking like many people really aren't all that excited about it, which I think is kind of a shame. Webb is a great director and storyteller, and he's developing a great looking Spider-Man film in a way we haven't seen before. It's just the vision of another director, and from what I've seen I love where he's going with it. What do are your thoughts?

The Amazing Spider-Man is scheduled to hit theaters on July 3rd 2012.