Ralph Ineson on Playing Galactus in 'The Fantastic Four' & Seeing His Character For the First Time | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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At 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' premiere, Ralph Ineson describes how different it is to play a character like Galactus. Plus, he tells THR what it was to see Galactus for the first time.

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00:00You're playing one of my favorite characters of all time, and I've waited for a screen-accurate, comic-accurate Galactus forever,

00:06but portraying something that's a force of nature, that's a concept, that's not really making choices, but just hungers,

00:13how do you as an actor get into a mindset where it's just feast?

00:16Yeah, you basically just concentrate on the physicality and finding the voice,

00:23and try and kind of think away any kind of humanity.

00:25He has to have a kind of calm authority and power, but that can't be from any kind of anger or malice.

00:34You know, it has to be calm, but just terrifying because of his perspective of how insignificant humans are.

00:41That's what's scary about him, is that he's just, you know, spiritually, mentally, physically, just billions of years beyond humans.

00:49So, yeah, it's kind of hard to get your head around.

00:51Playing an entity itself.

00:52Yeah, yeah, it's not like going, okay, so how many kids does he have?

00:55You know, although you normally ask a character.

01:00The what's my motivation is complicated.

01:02Yeah, it is. It's a different world when you're doing Galactus.

01:05Now, Robert Eggers is such a visual director, and I love his work, and I love your work with him.

01:09And Matt Shackman's work here, it looks so visually stimulating, so stunning.

01:13What was it like seeing Galactus, which obviously has to be, you know, some practical,

01:17but so much augmented in post, to see these visual directors?

01:20When you go from being an actor on set to seeing the finished product,

01:23what was the Galactus reveal like for you as an actor?

01:25Well, it was kind of in ADR, so I was watching, replacing some dialogue, and a line comes across the screen,

01:33and when the line reaches the end of the screen, that's your cue to say the line.

01:38So I'm looking at the shot, and the camera's floating across this, like, massive Death Star, kind of industrial landscape.

01:44I'm looking at it going, okay, but where's my character?

01:49And then as it goes, you just simply burn out, and then it reveals my cheek.

01:52At the end, I'm going, oh my God, that's my shoulder!

01:55And I thought it was this huge industrial landscape, but the way that they've managed to do this scale,

02:01it's astonishing, yeah.

02:02So, yeah, in ADR, I was like, oh my God, you've done it.

02:06That's how it works, yeah, that's really impressive.

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