With the new Fantastic Four First Steps film now out (read our review HERE) and getting good reviews its actor Ralph Ineson’s Galactus problems that have caught the eye. Ineson first came to attention as the appalling Finchy in The Office but since then he has gone to become part of a stable of actors who works with director Robert Eggers but his role of Galactus was far from comfortable to play.
‘I knew that superheroes wear superhero suits’ said Ineson, ‘so I immediately assumed it would be practical, not realizing what a naive thought that was. I didn’t realize how rare it is to try and do something on the scale of Galactus in a practical way. But from when I first met Matt, he spoke about it as if they were going to build a suit for me to play the character practically. It’s a great gift for an actor to be able to do that, and whilst I also did some motion-capture work, the majority of my stuff was practical and in costume. So you really feel the part when you’ve got that kit on yourself.
But that costume turned out to cause him issues adding, ‘Well, it wasn’t that the costume was so uncomfortable; it was more the fact that I’m 55 years old. My joints are falling apart, and that costume made my knees flare up from carrying the extra weight, so I occasionally had to get a massage at lunchtime. I was incredibly well looked after.
Ralph Ineson’s Galactus problems were dealt with in an unusual manner. ‘There’s an [Orson Welles] quote: “A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” And bringing a character like Galactus onto the screen is a similar thing. I liken it to a Formula One team with a pit crew and hundreds of scientists and data analysts. In this case, they’re designing the suit and building the whole suit for my pit crew and I to then take onto the set and drive. The way you have to shoot Galactus is as a miniature, and then you blow up the footage. It stays in perfect focus once it’s expanded because we had excess bright white light on set. So wearing the huge suit and the helmet and the gauntlets and all the gear whilst filming in that bright white light was extremely hot, and my pit crew had a whole routine so that I could stay cool enough. Galactus can’t sweat, so I had to keep my body temperature down, but also do these quite physical things under the bright light.
He went on top explain, ‘I’d do a couple of takes and sit down whilst they were resetting the camera, and I’d have one person on each gauntlet and another person on the helmet. Somebody would then put an air conditioning unit up the back of my armor, and people with fans were in front of me. We’d all watch for the assistant director to give the 30-second countdown before everybody had to put everything back on me. So it was exactly like a pit stop for a Formula One car.
…and those were his Galactus problems
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source: THR
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