![]() ![]() I would apologize at lunch and they’d say, ‘No, it’s amazing. I would charge people and literally make people fall over because they thought I was going to attack…. “I would stare down people until they were uncomfortable. They were like, ‘Oh my gosh, It’s Dwayne Johnson!’ And I was trying to scare the crap out of them, because I’m like, ‘When they say action, I might kill you,'” Liles says. Because gorillas don’t know any of that.”īy the time Liles arrived on set, he had gotten good at shedding his human side he met Johnson the day before shooting, but for the most part, he says that the action superstar only saw George on set. The society things of keeping eye contact and smiling and nodding and what’s polite and what’s impolite.’ We have to get rid of all of that. “He told me from the get-go, ‘I don’t want you to pretend to be a gorilla,'” recalls Liles. ” We are going to shed all the things that make us human, that make you Jason. But the most challenging thing he learned to do was to forget the things that made him human, a goal he and Notary accomplished through silence and meditation. Hiking with Notary (famous for playing Kong) for hours while wearing arm extenders led to “more pain” than Liles had ever felt in his life, thanks to soreness that kicked in on day three. The two worked together on Netflix’s Death Note, and Strause advocated for Liles to play George.īefore filming, Liles spent months studying gorillas, and then moved on to three weeks of training with Kong: Skull Island‘s Terry Notary in the Santa Monica mountains. ![]() Liles, who is six-foot-nine, got the role in part thanks to Colin Strause, the film’s visual effects supervisor. Leave it alone if it’s not messing up the makeup.'” “Makeup would come over and try to clean me up. It was exhausting,” says the actor of staying in character. Not to that extent where it’s 24/7, but there were scenes where it was hours and hours - crying, snot coming out of my face - and just holding it and staying in a panic attack. Box Office: 'Avengers: Infinity War' Passes 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' With Record $258M U.S. ![]()
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