Dave Bautista, known as the unorthodox yet powerful Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy series, has reflected on his time in the MCU as the third film closed out the trilogy for the band of misfits. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (via ComicBook), Bautista has signed off playing the character, however, misses “the family environment.”
“It’s hard knowing that we will never be on set together again. Me, Chris, Zoe, Pom, Karen, Sean Gunn, James Gunn — it’s never going to happen again. It’s hard to live with that. I also never really had closure on that part of my career,” Bautista says. “Even though it’s gone and in the past, I never got to say goodbye to everyone. I never got to go to the premiere and have fun with everybody and cry and say goodbye. I never got that.”
The last shoot for Bautista on Guardians came during the Holiday Special, which was filmed concurrently alongside the third film. “So our last night filming was here in Hollywood, and we wrapped at 3 or 4 in the morning. And then I literally had to run to the hotel, get my bags, jump on a jet and fly to Philadelphia to start Knock at the Cabin two days later.”
“So I never really got to say goodbye to everyone. I got rushed off set to another film. I was then on another film, and I didn’t do press or make the premiere for Guardians 3. So there’s just a huge part of me that feels like there was no closure. I never really got to say goodbye to that character and that cast, and there’s always going to be some sadness involved when I start thinking about that.”
In other Marvel news, the Daredevil: Born Again revival teases to contain “some of the most brutal action” from the series to date.
