Dave Batista Talks About His Role In "Guardians Of The Galaxy"

WWE Superstar Dave Batista recently spoke to SuperHeroHype.com about playing "Drax the Destroyer" in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy:

On Playing Drax the Destroyer: “I keep like not only thinking this but I keep hearing this over and over, that I was really born to play this part,” Bautista admitted. “I love putting on the make-up and everything and especially the fight. You guys don’t get to see the context, but the context is really the icing on the cake. They’re really cool, but I can just relate to Drax so much, it’s not even funny. I mean, even just the simple things that we have in common. I mean, simple, simple things like the tattoos and the tragedy, because I had a bit of tragedy in my life as well.”

On Some of The Comedy Relief in the Film: “When I first read the script, there was a few lines that weren’t in there, but it was regarding my distaste for shirts. And so I came to rehearsal one day and we’re reading through it and then one of the lines about Drax not really caring for shirts was in there. And I looked up at James and he was just sitting there laughing and I decided to say ‘I didn’t see this line in the script.’ He goes, ‘Cause I just wrote it in last night.’ So it’s all kind of little things like that that make Drax really interesting. I think a lot of that stuff, because he’s very literal sometimes he just doesn’t realize that he’s being funny, but he’s actually hysterical, you know? I think Drax steals a lot of scenes with that type of stuff.”