Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Dave Bautista Has One Big Regret About Playing Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax the Destroyer

Dave Bautista has one big regret about playing the lovable Guardians of the Galaxy member Drax the Destroyer...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Dave Baltista's acting career
hit a whole other love of following his stint playing
Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel universe, most famously in
the Gardens of the Galaxy trilogy, and David's expressed he's
happy to be done with playing Drags, largely because of
the grueling full body makeup he had to endure daily,
but Dave now admits, out of all the characters he's played,
he wishes Drax's life had been explored more intimately, telling

(00:23):
Jake's takes probably the best story to explore would beat drax'es.
I picked Dracs because imagine if Drats could actually tell
his whole story. It's a bittersweet topic for me because
I always thought there was so much story to tell there,
and for some reason Marvel just didn't see it, which
drove me crazy. I think it would be super entertaining
because of the way Drax communicates, but also speaking of
with such passion about his family background and loss would

(00:44):
be fun too, the words of Dave Bautista, whose latest movie,
In the Lost Lands is on Hulu that's Direct from
Hollywood