“I just do that a lot, and the arms are doing all the killing and smashing and breaking. “My basic physical move as Doc Ock, as the actor, is just this,” he said as he glared intensely at the Zoom camera and made a menacing noise. “I then remembered that it’s the tentacles that do all the work!” Molina realized, though, that the nature of the role would save him. “I don’t have the same physicality that I had 17 years ago,” he continued. “He looked like an old guy! That’s what that’s what worried me about doing it again.” “They made Robert De Niro’s face younger, but when he was fighting, he looked like an older guy,” Molina said. Molina also cited Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” as an example of digital de-aging - and its limitations. Jackson played a younger version of his character, Nick Fury. to look as he did in 1991 and in 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” also set in the 1990s, a de-aged Samuel L. In 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War,” Marvel Studios used CGI to de-age Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Jackson?'” Molina said with a laugh. “He just looked at me, and said, ‘Did you see what we did to Bob Downey Jr. He said that he asked Watts how they were going to deal with the fact that at 67, he’s aged since the 2004 film.
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In their early conversations, Molina said, Watts told him that the movie will pick up Doc Ock’s story from “that moment” in the river, which in a franchise that include multiverses, time-travel and diverging timelines seems…plausible enough. In the movie’s climactic scene, Peter appeals to Otto’s good side, and he drowns himself and his reactor in the East River before the city is destroyed. On the orders Harry Osborn (James Franco), the tentacled, unhinged Doc Ock’s obsession with perfecting his experimental fusion reactor sets him against Peter/Spider-Man and Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), and endangers all of New York City. In “Spider-Man 2,” Molina played scientist Otto Octavius, who was poised to be a mentor to Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker when a lab accident turns him into the the murderous Doctor Octopus, or Doc Ock for short - so named for the four mechanical arms fused into his back. When the actor asked Jon Watts, the director of “No Way Home,” how the movie would bring Doc Ock back - since, as he pointed out, “I died” - Molina said the director told him, “In this universe, no one really dies.” “It was very interesting going back after 17 years to play the same role, given that in the intervening years, I now have two chins, a wattle, crow’s feet and a slightly a slightly dodgy lower back.”
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