According to motion capture choreographer Terry Notary ("Warcraft"), previously the 'movement coach' for actor Jamie Bell aka 'The Thing' on director Josh Trank's "Fantastic Four" reboot, 'Ben Grimm' is basically "...a kid trapped in a rock..."
"There’s very, very little expression in the face," said Notary, whose credits also include "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes" and "Avatar". "Everything has to live through the soul and the eyes. Everything. The subtleties of the physicality when standing there...you’re a rock. You’re made of rock, so you can’t be super subtle but you can be if you sense that emotion coming out through the soul and the eyes.
"We had (Jamie) just holding this neutral expression and just pouring the soul out of his eyes while walking through this space, while obviously being grounded with weight and mass and gravitas that's so important and does take a lot of work. It’s not something that comes easy. You have to create this sense of thick space and you’re carrying yourself with different parts of your body depending on the emotion of the character and the development of the character.
"I mean, he’s a kid trapped in a rock..."
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