Kong: Skull Island actor John C. Reilly says visual effects ‘delight’ him as a viewer

Actor John C. Reilly’s castaway character in Kong: Skull Island, a scruffy long beard named Hank Marlow, brings to mind Dennis Hopper’s crazed jungle cameraman character in Apocalypse Now.
Hank also looks like how the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island might appear after the proverbial “three-hour tour” turns into decades of being lost.Such comparisons certainly apply, Reilly allows over the phone from a tour stop in London. But he suggests a left-field one he thinks is more on the money: the wily orphan girl Newt in Aliens, played by Carrie Henn, who helps Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley fight deep space invaders.“Like Newt, Hank is someone who’s been left for dead who has survived somehow and who has been driven half crazy by the experience — but who is going to survive, no matter what,” Reilly says.“Hank is also the character who gets to call out the elephant in the room (about the dangers of Skull Island). I love characters like that, those people who are apart from the rest of the group with a unique point of view.”All of which is another way of saying this versatile artist is not going to be overlooked, even if he did sing about being “Mr. Cellophane” in Chicago, and even if he is competing for eyeballs in Kong: Skull Island with CGI monsters and human co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson. (The film opens wide Friday, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.)The 51-year-old Reilly certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed, in a 27-year screen career that has seen him do memorable characters both comic (Walk Hard, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers) and serious (Magnolia, The Thin Red Line, The Aviator).For More details http://ift.tt/2mHsl0W #VFxCareers #VFxPaint #VFxRotoscopy#VFxCourses #MultimediaCourses #MultimediaCareers#AnimationCareers #AnimationCourses #RotomakerAcademy