The Last Voyage of The Demeter Javier Botet Dracula Character

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In this featurette, star actor Javier Botet who is considered one of the best creature performers in the world talks about his character Dracula along with a behind the scenes look into the costume’s design. Check it out.

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00:00 [dramatic music]

00:01 - I am Javier Botet, and I'm playing Dracula.

00:05 - Okay, and action!

00:06 - Javier Botet is an amazing creature performer,

00:09 one of the best in the world.

00:10 - And move.

00:10 - He will stop at nothing to bring anything

00:13 and everything to his role.

00:15 - My body is so aesthetic for horror creatures,

00:19 and because of my flexibility,

00:20 I can do a very weird movement.

00:22 - We call him Dracula.

00:24 - Since we had Javier playing him,

00:25 we should play to his strengths.

00:27 So we've covered him, but we haven't really changed that much

00:30 of him, we're still using him as a basis.

00:32 - The cheeks, the nose, lips, it was like five hours.

00:37 - The devil is real.

00:40 - It's very important to have an actor of his quality

00:43 because the other actors can then relate to him.

00:45 - I kind of avoided seeing Dracula,

00:47 and I really genuinely got afraid.

00:49 - The way he moves, it was so frightening.

00:53 - Search the ship everywhere.

00:55 [dramatic music]

00:56 - The man, the man.

00:57 - It was hard, so when I see a frame with the rain

01:00 and everything in the creature,

01:02 it's like, okay, everything worth it.

01:05 - May God have mercy on us all.

01:07 [dramatic music]

01:10 Oh my God.

01:12 (dramatic music)

01:15 (whooshing)

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