“When you’re a child, you always dream about something like that.
It’s like living the dream.”
His diagnoses proved to be an advantage.
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“I think the industry for the last 10, 20 years has discovered the CGI for everything.
They are using it for everything too much,” he remarks.
“Yes, I’m fighting against that.
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Not hard ‘cause I think some realized they have something special [when it] looks real.
But you don’t need the CGI.”
That video started making the rounds in Hollywood and simultaneously drummed up buzz.
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“We rehearsed his part in his hotel room after my work day was done.
I filmed him on my iPad and we went through some of his basic movements.
To Botet, these roles are more than just monsters they’re three-dimensional characters.
Oh boy was he right.”
With the xenomorph inAlien: Covenant, Botet focused on the beast’s “strong and fast-growing” body.
Other times, a role is about fear “how much fear the creature has to have.”
“I want to do everything in the movie world,” Botet says.
At the same time, he’s “not rushing.”
“Maybe next year, maybe in 10 years.
Yes, I think I would enjoy changing the things,” he thinks.
He wasn’t even thinking about that.
“[Muschietti] knows exactly what I have and he needed me,” Botet explains.
It’s going to be very fun to see."
