‘The Last of Us’ has an actor in common with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Harry Potter…

‘The Last of Us’ has an actor in common with Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Harry Potter…

Surely you haven’t noticed… Because you can’t see his face (hint)

    The Last of Us‘ is breaking all records since its premiere on HBO Max and It has become the series so far this year, without a doubt. Its legions of fans do not stop talking about the series and every day dozens of news and curiosities emerge about what is already one of the best video game adaptations in history.

    In the last chapter to date, 1×05, we had the opportunity to see for the first time Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay) facing a swollen in ‘The Last of Us’, a new evolution of the clickers that many already knew from the video game. But what almost no one has noticed is the actor who gives life to the monstrous creature inside the prosthetic suit.

    adam basil It is the name of the action specialist behind the fan’s mask. And, even if it doesn’t sound like it, you have seen him (many times without realizing it) in several of your favorite movies and series. For example, in Marvel movies being the minotaur rintah in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ and the Tom Hardy’s stunt double in ‘Venom’; or in Disney live-actions like the double of Will Smith’s Genius in ‘Aladdin’ or the Beast from ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

    But he has also participated in movies from the DC universe (‘Wonder Woman‘), Star Wars (‘Rogue One‘), Harry Potter (‘fantastic beasts and where to find them‘), Mission Impossible (‘fallout‘) and in the James Bond saga (‘no time to die‘).

    On television he does not fall short either. You have been able to see Basil (at least glancingly) in series as popular as ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Doctor Who’ or ‘Vikings‘. And you had no idea.

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    And the fault lies with people like barrie gower, the creator of Vecna’s body prostheses in ‘Stranger Things’ and the fan in ‘The Last of Us’, which completely cover the face of the stuntman. The artist explained to Variety how was the design of the new monster for the HBO series: “We had a complete copy of his body on which we modeled the swollen prostheses in plasticine.. We make it with foam rubber and foam latex, which is very light. It’s almost like an upholstery foam, a very spongy type of material. All of that was molded and cast in separate sections: top half, head, arms, legs. We had a team that fabricated all of these pieces together. We had a zipper in the back and around the waist. Beneath all those dangling mushroom folds I hid zippers and buttons.”.

    With an approximate weight of 40 kilogramsthe fan suit needed to be visible at night, and to do this Gower and his team used gels and viscous lubricants. “The suit would be very soft, but also very slimy and wet,” she says. “We covered it with this gel-like solution, which gave shine to all the mushrooms, to the small spines and to the spiky hairs pierced on its body“.

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    Basil may reappear in ‘The Last of Us’ in the form of a bloat or as even more terrifying new threats, but even if he doesn’t, it won’t be long before you’re back to enjoying his quiet work in the shadows. The specialist has also been part of the team of stunt of the next ‘Fast and Furious 10’, which will be released in May. Oh, and he’s also worked on ‘Indiana Jones 5’. Not for uncle.

    Source: Fotogramas

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