Throughout the manufacturing of “Livid 7” in 2013, Vin Diesel posted a (now-deleted) video to his Fb web page (by way of Insider) that confirmed him “practising” to play Groot in “Guardians of the Galaxy” by strolling round on stilts, so as to make him really feel like a seven-foot tall tree — one thing he repeated on the London premiere of the film (seen above). Funnily sufficient, he even talked concerning the position with “Livid 7” co-star Djimon Hounsou, who additionally seems within the first “Guardians” film. Fortunately, this is not the one proof of Diesel utilizing stilts to supposedly get into character as Groot. A sequence of B-roll clips will be discovered on YouTube the place the actor walks strolls right into a recording room on stilts so as to document multi-lingual variations of the “I Am Groot” line from the film. Test it out:
In fact, when you hold watching the clips above, it appears standing on these stilts did not final greater than a single day of recording. One other spherical of traces being recorded reveals Diesel a lot nearer to the bottom. It might seem as if Diesel was simply having some enjoyable relatively than really doing one thing that helped him get into character. However that did not cease many leisure shops from assuming that Diesel would use the stilts as a part of a motion-capture efficiency earlier than cameras had began rolling. As we all know immediately, Polish actor Krystian Godlewski wore a movement seize swimsuit on set to symbolize Groot and supply one thing for the remainder of the actors to have a look at whereas filming.
Contemplating the truth that Diesel is famously a lot shorter than “Quick and Livid” co-star Dwayne Johnson (which can have been a part of their well-known beef), maybe the stilts on the set of “Livid 7” have been one thing being examined as a method to make Dom Toretto a extra intimidating presence within the high-octane franchise. Groot could have simply been an excuse for Vin Diesel to determine his dominance on a set stuffed with beefcakes larger than him.