“I always act like a director, so it doesn’t seem to change that much, especially with Rooker, who is like this stray dog who’s always running off and about to get away and you have to be like, ‘Rooker, come back here, come back here, come back here.’ That’s sort of the nature of our relationship anyway.”

Movieweb recently had the chance to speak with Michael Rooker about the extensive commitment it took to just apply the makeup for this character, how filmmaker James Gunn’s style has been altered (if at all) to build this immense sequel, and much more.

Marvel head Kevin Feige says that Guardians of the Galaxy is the studio’s riskiest film since the original Iron Man. When we shared this with Rooker, he said he didn’t feel the same way.