Dave Bautista recently declared to Collider that he will no longer work with assholes because it is “absolutely horrible”, and fortunately he has reached a threshold in his acting career where he can be more obvious on the projects he undertakes and the actors who become his co-stars.
“I’m just at the age and at the time of my life when life is just too short,” said Bautista. “I want to work with people I love and respect, because I like this business. I love cinema, and if people don’t want to be there, I don’t want to be there with them. You know?”
“I am happy Being there. It is a thing of love for me, and I am passionate about it, “added Bautista.” I want to be there, and I want to get the best of it, so I don’t want to hear the people who row, complain, moan and moan about doing something we are all lucky enough to do and do. “”
Bautista has long been frank on his desire to diversify his acting filmography and to branch well beyond his revolutionary role as Drax The Destroyer in the Marvel cinematic universe, including the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy by James Gunn. He even lost weight to have access to a larger actor roles of roles.
“I started to break down because I became very big for a role. Uncomfortably large,” said Bautista last year. “To” knock on the cabin “, I became really big. I was around 315 pounds… I put the weight very quickly and I put an uncomfortable weight and it took an eternity to allow it. ”
“The more I cut, the better I seem in front of the camera and the better I looked next to the other actors,” he explained. “I am always a great human being. At 6’4 and 240 pounds next to your typical actor, I look like a gorilla and it is distracting. I will probably lose a few more books. I just kill myself to be this finish. I train hard.”
Bautista told GQ magazine at the same time as “I just want to be a good damn actor. A respected actor ”. For this reason, he has always cherished his collaborations with Denis Villeneuve, like “Blade Runner 2049” and the films “Dune”.
“I never had a director before Denis, since Denis, tell me that you are a very strong actor,” Bautista told Gizmodo last year. “And he told me that on the first film. I held back because I was embarrassed [and] I was. I was not very uncertain of myself. And he came to see me. He said, “I feel like you are holding you back. You are a very strong actor, my friend. Just follow your instinct. And so I started to cook him, and I started to find this character. He not only liked it so much, but he supported my performance so much that he wanted to capture the reactions of others to my performance. And so when you get this kind of support, it was an experience that I have never had before or since then, with a director of this caliber. So that means everything. It is validation.
Bautista is currently playing in “Afterburn”, now playing in theaters. His future credits include the action thriller “Trap House”, the independent science fiction film “Alpha Gang” and a vocal role in “The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender”.
