![]() ![]() This one is maybe a little more emotional than the other ones, but that’s part of it.ĭoes James work with you differently for an on-screen role and a motion-reference role? So it was a little different from a technical standpoint.įrom a performance standpoint, I prepared the way I always prepare. When Rocket’s in the cage, we’re really shooting all that stuff, and fully capturing those performances digitally. So I did have the the motion capture suit on, and I was able to interact with Linda Cardellini and the other actors. ![]() In this third movie, because we see young Rocket with other animals who are around his size, we shot that stuff on miniaturized sets, and did more traditional motion capture. And the visual effects team is watching my performance, and animating Rocket based on what I do. ![]() Which means they don’t put me in the suit with all the colored stripes and balls and things like that - I’m just wearing a regular tracksuit. Sean Gunn: So in the previous movies, what I do is - the technical term is motion reference. Polygon: With Rocket being such a central presence in this movie, and going through so much, was performing him significantly different this time around? 3 to talk about his on-set experiences as Rocket, where he wants to see Kraglin go from here, and most importantly, whether he can actually whistle as well as Kraglin, who finally comes into his own in this installment of the series. Polygon sat down with Sean after the debut of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. But the Guardians are still alive, and the idea of the Guardians - what they stand for, in terms of finding family anywhere, and sticking up for the little guy, and ‘we’re all in this together’ - that idea lives on, and lives on strongly, so there’s always more.” There’s a sadness to completing James’ incarnation of the Guardians. “I love telling great stories, and if there’s a way to get in on another great story, I’d certainly be open to it. “I certainly never close any doors when it comes to that kind of thing,” he says. Kraglin, on the other hand, he’d be happy to see return in a later Marvel movie. But that’s something I’m happy to say goodbye to.” I was up for it, I was glad I was able to do it, I’m fortunate I was able to be there for it. “It’s been 10 years I’ve been doing this, and the physical part of playing Rocket is something I know I need to retire from after this movie,” Gunn says. Would he want to carry on as either Rocket or Kraglin now that his brother’s moved away from Marvel? Sean Gunn has been a TV and movie actor for more than 25 years - he tells Polygon that his favorite role was in Gilmore Girls, as quirky Stars Hollow resident Kirk Gleason - but he’s also been closely associated with his brother’s work, often taking multiple roles in James’ projects. Sean is also the on-set actor for Rocket Raccoon, the CG character voiced by Bradley Cooper, both in Gunn’s films and in crossovers like Thor: Love and Thunder and the Avengers movies. What does that mean for James’ brother Sean? Sean Gunn has been in all three Guardians movies as Kraglin, sidekick to former Ravager leader Yondu (Michael Rooker), and inheritor of Yondu’s Yaka Arrow, the whistle-controlled weapon that repeatedly crops up in the trilogy. But as a post-credits card teases, it might not mean the end of their stories in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 3 is a goodbye to his iteration of those characters. With Gunn moving on to co-lead DC’s movie operation, this summer’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The trilogy of films include some classic Marvel characters, but reinvent them for Gunn’s career-long theme about misfits finding their comfort zones and building found families. From the beginning, the Guardians of the Galaxy movies were a personal project for James Gunn. ![]()
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