Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Is Killer Croc

[Matt.S99]

The only thing I wish they did was give him those animalistic eyes in the posters.
But besides that, it's perfect.

 

[TheRedWraith]

I really love those teeth they just make the whole thing really look impressive.

 

[Sawyer]

hnnnnnnnnnnngh

 

[harryoscop]

I'm personally a fan of the more animalistic/modern designs but Croc looks scary and the makeup is fantastic.

 

[Abudefduf]

Stuff from the new articles. Some minor spoilers, I guess.

In front of me is Killer Croc—a real, flesh-and-blood iteration of the Batman villain—and he is absolutely terrifying. Imprisoned in a dark, swampy, underground cell, he sits somewhat contemplative as a stark fluorescent light illuminates his grim surroundings. Suddenly, a sound is heard overhead. A gate opens. And then, somewhat comically, a goat carcass drops from the sky, splashing in Croc’s watery surroundings. This stirs him, finally, and he gets up and starts over towards the resting place of his dinner. He’s walking, but he seems to swim through the air, moving his head and shoulders in a sinuous motion as he saunters over to his prey. He arrives at his destination and proceeds to rip a leg off of the animal, taking his first tasty bite in what is surely the highlight of his long, solitary day.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje had to practice a lot in the mirror with his Killer Croc mask to figure out how intensely he needed to push out his facial expressions

When creating the look of Killer Croc, Ayer and Akinnuoye-Agbaje wanted to ground him in reality as much as possible, so many of the skin tones are blended with the actor’s real skin tones.

The full body Killer Croc makeup took six hours to put on.

For research, Akinnuoye-Agbaje went down to the everglades in Fort Lauderdale to watch and videotape crocodiles. This lead to him developing signature moves for his character when he launches into his prey.

Akinnuoye-Agbaje developed a specific walk for Killer Croc that is sinuous, almost as if he’s moving through water.

During filming, Akinnuoye-Agbaje deliberately kept himself away from the cast so that they would be wary of him.

Killer Croc has a Bronx accent. Akinnuoye-Agbaje worked with a dialogue coach.

We ended up in a giant warehouse with a tiny plywood box in the center of it. One one end, sewer stones covering the entryway indicated it was the cell of Killer Croc. Walking around inside is slightly claustrophobic. And dangerous as half the room is water. Tiny details about Croc’s incarceration include a shelf full of cats made of silverware and an impressive collection of bone art. Croc is an artist.

Akinnuoye-Agbaje talked about wanting to make his character of Croc more real, something we’d seen allusions to early in Croc’s cell. Instead of a monster, Akinnuoye-Agbaje wanted audiences to see the man beneath the disfigurement. To me, it sounded as if he was playing the character close to his iteration in GOTHAM ACADEMY.

“I discussed with David Ayers the director, we sat down and talked about it, how we wanted to reincarnate the first vision of Croc in the movie. We wanted to ground him, really make him real. You’ll see that with the color of skin-tones that were used, which were blended in with my own, so that it was almost as if it was a disfiguration, a man that inherited a disease that gave him croc like features and looks. We wanted to ground that. One of the reasons they went to a lot of detail in how to craft the mask was so that I could really do as many natural facial contortions as possible. Also, we decided not to use contacts so that you could really get to see the being, the soul, beneath the mask. We found that that really helps draw you into him as a being, as a creature.
He’s somewhat tortured and abused from his childhood. It dictates his reactions, from him wanting to go underground. He’s always been ostracized and ridiculed for how he looks. What he’s done is embrace that. Instead of saying ‘I’m ugly’, he’s says ‘I’m beautiful’. Instead of going underground as if he’s hiding, he says ‘this is my kingdom’. He’s kind of reversed some of his childhood abuse into allowing him to become what he is, which is really the next threat to take over Gotham. That’s really what his ultimate goal is. One of the reasons is probably because obviously power, respect but people liking him. And if you don’t, you’re going to have to if he’s got power. So all of those elements play into it.”

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje looked to a real-life cannibal for inspiration

"There’s this guy that I’d play [video of] every single day," said Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. "It’s a Japanese cannibal named Issei Sagawa, who ate a French model. As sick as it sounds, the moment I start to play that video, I’m in the form of Croc, because it’s really important for this creature to be thirsty for flesh, even when he’s around the Squad. They always have to be wary and be aware of the fact that, at any moment, he might get the hunger and just take an arm off. Does he do it because he likes it? Does he do it to send a message to his enemies, like instill fear? Whatever reason he does it, he does do it."

It took over three hours every day in the makeup chair to turn him into Killer Croc, and the actor wanted it to look as authentic as possible for the character’s first live-action appearance.

"Both David (Ayer) and I, we talked extensively about the look. Obviously there is a huge backlog of history and story of how he looked. But this was the first reincarnation of him in film. I was very insistent on making it very real. The color, you’ll notice, is my own skin tone so that you can see the graduation of this disease that he has. So you’ll see it meshed in with my own skin into the scales of what he later becomes, which is Killer Croc. There were different colors and shades, but again, we wanted to keep it very real and very much like this is a man that became a croc or inhabited crocodile features. But he’s not crocodile, he’s a man."

"I think for me, the challenge is to really displace the fact that I am wearing prosthetics for the audience and really have the audience relate to the soul of this creature-man," Akinnuoye-Agbaje continued. "That’s what both me and David were aiming for, the soul of this creature, and not to rely on prosthetics.

"I also went down to the Everglades," Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. "I went down to the swamps and watched [the alligators], took video of them and saw how they moved. You’ll notice that when Croc moves because that was a very important part. The moment I started to embrace the movement of walking through water, even though it was on land, really inhabiting the moves of a crocodile, the prosthetics just came alive."

Seriously, after all the work they did to bring him on screen, I hope he at least has some substantial screen time.

 

[Angel0fDeath]

 

[DeadStroke]

Stuff from the new articles. Some minor spoilers, I guess.









Seriously, after all the work they did to bring him on screen, I hope he at least has some substantial screen time.

Make up artist should be up for a nomination...

 

[Doctor Octopus]

hnnnnnnnnnnngh

It great how many scales he have. So detailed. Make him look like real live crocodile man.

 

[KillerWolf]

One thing puzzles me... they said they didn't want to go for contacts and in every other shot he doesn't have animalistic eyes, yet here he does have them.

 

[Guts]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH22kbUgfW_/

 

[Guts]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH41P_CA_z0/?taken-by=therealadewale

 

[Kane52630]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BH22kbUgfW_/

 

[Guts]

My theory is that this is Croc [BLACKOUT]making his escape after the bombs have been deactivated.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[WitchTrialz]

My theory is that this is Croc [BLACKOUT]making his escape after the bombs have been deactivated.[/BLACKOUT]

Or the supposed scene

Spoiler

of batman capturing him

 

[Victarion]

Is that too deep to be his cell at Belle Reve?

 

[metaphysician]

It looks awfully big for the cell, unless the above-water portion was only a tiny fraction of the total. Plus, that seems to be debris in it, which would also be weird.

 

[Rowsdower!]

He's clearly swimming through the polluted waters of Rio.

 

[Brian Braddock]

Make up artist should be up for a nomination...

Seconded. Even on the limited stuff we've seen and despite not having even seen the movie, I've been thinking the same. The makeup looks so intricate.

 

[Lencho01]

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[Kane52630]

From Greg Nicotero's instagram

https://www.instagram.com/p/BIfG8xbBRcc/?taken-by=gnicotero&hl=en

Killer Croc prosthetic make up concept design by John Wheaton. I supervised the design and execution of this character at KNB along with Carey Jones with lead sculptor David Grasso and painters Tim Gore and Alex Diaz, dentures by Grady Holder amongst many others. Character applied on set by Chris Nelson and Sean Sansom!!!! Suicide Squad opening next Friday!!!! #suicidesquad #knbefxgroup STAY TUNED FOR MORE PHOTOS

 

[brandeezy89]

We've loved that design as well. Looks exactly like the BTAS

 

[Hammer!]

This guy was very under appreciated as Kurse in Thor 2. Heavy makeup and costume, but he was able to capture emotion and individuality with his lumbering, yet precise mov menus. Hope he does good here.

Would like to see him cast in Black Panther, or any big role really, without prosthetics.

 

[harryoscop]

The CBM trend of the concept art looking better than the final product continues.

 

[Guts]

Even though the concept art is very close to what we got?

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Agreed it not look much different. Croc look great. Best look of all Suicide Squad.