Marvels newest hero opens up about going gold and learning to fly.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3is a film about goodbyes but it also says hello to one notableMarvelhero.
Will Poulter as Adam Warlock in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’.Jessica Miglio/Marvel Studios
He’s also a bit of a moron.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Take me back to the very beginning.
How did you get involved in this movie?
Meet Blurp, a fuzzy alien creature from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.Marvel Studios
My mate Ethan put me on tape for it.
And then, I did hear something back.
So, they put you in gold makeup for your screen test?
I shouldn’t have even been thinking about that.
I should have been thinking about the lines that I had to learn.
But I was thinking,Oh, this is quite cool.
I’m in gold Nikes.
That’s pretty cool.
Adam Warlock basically wears Nikes.
He should get a brand deal!
Listen, I’m working on it.
It was full of ambiguity and nuance, and James was down to explore it all.
How long did the makeup process take you each day?
I think the hair and makeup was two hours.
The team are so incredible, and they move really,reallyquickly.
Spending time with those folks for a couple of hours every day was a pleasure.
I also wanted to ask about the flying because you do a lot of that.
How does that work?
Are you in a harness?
There’s kind of two or three ways it goes down, with different-shaped harnesses and wires.
You work in collaboration with the stunt team, obviously, and the rigs to make that happen.
It’s not always the most comfortable thing, but it’s super fun once you’re doing it.
My flying dreams have improved exponentially.
I love dreaming about flying now because they’re kind of like movie-quality now.
I was very much a low-budget flying dreamer, but after this experience it feels very, very real.
[Laughs]
Tell me a little bit about working with James Gunn.
What’s he like on set?
It was super surprising to me.
He has a sense of fun and looseness and play that is so, so enjoyable to engage in.
He’s such a visionary.
He knows exactly what he wants.
He’s so confident in what the best version of any given scene or moment looks like.
It allows space for play once he’s gotten what he knows he needs.
But there was tons of it.
I thought I was going to be in a scary, stiff, sort of slow-paced thing.
Everyone was engaging in their sense of play and imagination and really having a laugh around the way.
But James and our producers made sure that we all had a good time along the way.
Chris Pratt was also kind of chief to making sure that was the experience.
No spoilers, but Adam spends a lot of time with a tiny fuzzy creature namedBlurp.
How was Blurp as a costar?
But James showed me some pre-viz art to let me know what Blurp would look like.
I knew he was going to be super cute and slobbery.
Ugly-cute, if you will.
I love that Adam had a pet.
And it was fun flying with Blurp.
He’s my pride and joy.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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