In the trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, Nebula is holding Star Lord aka Chris Pratt. Thanks to his strength, he maintains it effortlessly. But on the set things were quite different… how was the scene shot?
You can already find it in the hall Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3the last chapter of the trilogy Marvel signed by James Gunn: the team is almost complete again, and in one trailer scene (so no spoilers) you saw that Nebula ha in arms one Star Lord alias Peter Quill alias Chris Pratt, senseless. In fiction it is perfectly normal: Nebula has superhuman strength. His interpreter Karen Gillan, however, is an ordinary person. And Pratt is certainly not light. How was the sequence shot?
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and the Chris Pratt doll
He has previously been named one of the Sexiest Men Alive by People magazine: Chris Pratt he certainly has a well-placed physique which, the gossip chronicles inform us, has never dropped below 100 kilos in recent years. In the world of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 it is normal that Nebula don’t have any problems at lift his Peter Quill like a twig, but Karen Gillan who plays her used a simpler method, with the complicity of the set design department of the branded film Marvel Studios. A lightweight replica by Chris Pratt!!! The revelation comes from a Slash Film interview with Karen e Pom Klementieff (Mantis).
GILLAN: Of course I wasn’t actually holding him, because it doesn’t seem like it’s making any effort, a cool effect. But they had to make a Chris Pratt doll that I was able to carry. (…)
KLEMENTIEFF: Era incredibly lifelikeit did fear. The first time we saw her, I could hardly look at her because it looked just like him, died.
GILLAN: That thing just had pores, like a real person, on the face. The level of detail was insane, it really looked like him!
The actresses confirm that they and the rest of the cast have pondered for a moment to do selfies or funny photos with the replica of Prattbut in the end they didn’t even have the courage, because you still impress. The very fact that it is not known now what happened to him the Pratt-doll is, in Karen Gillan’s shareable words, “a bit alarming“.
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