Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn Dishes on Being Ravagers and Guardians #GotGVol2Event

Of course, we couldn’t address the elephant in the room. We had to know how it felt for Rooker when he read the script and learned about his character’s death.

You know what? I’m used to dying. I’ve died several times. Many times in different movies and different TV shows and it doesn’t hurt at all. It’s okay. I’ll be back somewhere.

We hoped that he was sharing some scoop with us about his character returning but when we asked him to tell us more he simply responded saying in other movies. Who know what will happen but I will say that Volume 2 really helped us learn more about Yondu, so it was a gut punch when he died.

We asked Rooker to share about the makeup process and how long it takes for me to be transformed into Yondu. He opened up about that process and shared how he got through the process.

MR: Yeah, the makeup process is awesome. We have a makeup artist in this room that was part of the my makeup crew. And she was here, but she’s gone now, but awesome. Awesome makeup process. It took about, maybe a three hour process to put on and four or five, six layers of different shades of blue and gold and silver and yellow, flax and all kinds of stuff.

And I’m like, what color is this? It’s gold, sometimes they just flick it on with a brush. They put it on the brush and they just go and they just flick it and it’s like little, little spackling all over your face, but tiny little dots that helps to bring out the depth of the, of the paint so it looks like, it just looks like real skin and I mean, it feels like real skin, too.

We asked the men what it was like working with the ravager teeth. They both had them as a part of their wardrobe, so was interesting to hear how they adjusted to talking with them.

MR : We both could answer that stuff. We both had some grills, baby. Do we not? You had more of a problem with it than I did.

SG : Yeah, the teeth, can be tricky. I tried to get the teeth made a good several months before we started so that I could just put them in and work with the talking. I think talking through the teeth was like in the first movie, it was one of the most difficult things I had to do.

MR : It was. But I didn’t have a problem with it because everybody’s different. Sean can speak English. I cannot. Sean’s he uses consonants. I do not almost never and my quality is more throatal and glottal. His is not. I mean, he can do that, of course. We are trained actors.

You know, this is just my quality in that’s how I do it, so thereby, the teeth are up in the front, so I form my words and my consonants and sounds more back, so it didn’t’ bother me at all with the speaking. What it did do, was it’s very difficult for the whistle. A whistle’s all in the front right where the stupid teeth are. After using them I told them, we got to fix these because I got to whistle.

And so they did, and they did pretty good and I had to relearn a little bit of where I focus. Where I focus the sound for the whistling and stuff.

We asked them to share who was their favorite character besides their own. Rooker immediately turned to Gunn and says “you can say me if you want!”

SG : I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t. I don’t know. I like ‘em all in different ways. I love Drax. I just loved sort of the journey that I’ve seen Dave take from his audition for the first movie through this, like, I think, magnificent performance he gives in this movie. I guess if I had to choose, I’d say Dave, but I, I love all the characters in the movie.

MR : I’m going to go with Rocket and Baby Groot are my favorite, you know. But that being said [Rocket is my friend right here and we worked together day and night doing this. He does all the, all the vocals and all the voice stuff for Rocket on set.

And I mean, several times. When we’re doing a scene, it takes like, four or five times. Four or five good ones to layer all that, all that stuff and you can probably talk a little bit more about that layering stuff.

SG :Yeah. Yeah, yeah. We have to do several takes for anything that Rocket is a part of. We do a reference take. We’re in there and we make sure we get one or two good ones of those and then we have to do one with a light. When I’m doing the lines from just behind the camera. Got to do one that’s totally empty. Yeah, all that. All that kind of stuff it’s a whole process.