At one time, Dave Bautista was best known as a WWE wrestler, despite appearing in a string of Hollywood movies and wanting to establish himself as a serious actor. It was in the role of Drax the Destroyer in the MCU’sGuardians of the Galaxymovies that Bautista finally heralded his arrival as an actor and a movie star.
But despite his success as Drax, and feeling slightly aggrieved that no character fromGuardians of the Galaxyhas gotten a Disney+ series yet,Dave Bautistaadmitted in an interview with JoBlo that he would personally never want to do a miniseries for Drax, due to the intensive amount of time spent in makeup.
As Bautista points out, the world of theGuardiansis a rich, expansive place, and it is strange thatDisney+is not set to feature miniseries about any of the characters from the franchise so far. But despite not wanting to make a show about Drax, Bautista explained that he does want to take on television at some point, in the hopes of bagging more dramatic roles than his big-screen action hero persona currently allows for.
“I want to do a television series. I’m dying to check that box. I really want to do-there’s something, a project I was pursuing for a long time and we just had this struggle to get it done. So, I’m looking at other projects right now. I do want to do a television project and then I have, uh, I think I have my bigger projects lined up, but I have my bigger projects lined up, but I wanted to just fill in those smaller things. I also still want to step back and do more independent stuff, which is also a struggle for me because I look like an action hero. A lot of times the deep, dramatic indie films don’t want to cast me. And I get it, my look is distracting, but at the same time those are the performances that I prefer. So, hopefully more indies; dramatic indies. And then a Television series.”
