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And if youre anything like me, your first thought will be: God, that dude isshredded.
I meanweirdshredded so big and oddly proportioned that theres a clumsiness to Luthers massive body.
This guy is a human head on a gorilla body.
This is nuts, says Hopper.
And maybe he did the same thing, in reverse used simian DNA for Luther.
You go,Okay, were gonna build an ape suit, he says.
And then when you start doing it, you go,Wait.
What does an ape suit really look like?
But at the same time, certain things didnt work on actual human people in the same way.
Tom is very fit and everything, but Luther in the comics issohulking.
The earliest efforts at bringing Luther to life were much closer to the massive body from the comics.
It just became something kind of … malformed and unsightly.
The bigger we got, the more we found, proportionally, that it just looked so odd.
I tried disproportionate-looking models that seemed sort of deformed, as if the transformation failed a little more.
There were tests where I was like,He looks like a big, round ball.
Just kind of … round everywhere, Hopper adds.
Once the clothes went on, it looked about 30 percent bigger anyway, says Hargadon.
Every take, I was like,Ive gotta get this off!It gotcrazyhot.
It was painstaking and time-consuming, and we really didjustget them in time.
He hates the way he looks, and hes severely depressed about it, Hopper adds.
The rave, in which Hopper danced in the bare-chested suit for hours, posed a particular risk.
Tom had some pretty wild moves in that rave scene.
He had to drink a lot of water, a lot of liquids, because he was sweating constantly.
It was so hot, and I had no ventilation.
At the end of the shooting day, I took it off and it was justdrippinginside.
And, of course, there were earthier concerns.
I made sure I got everything done I needed to do before I got into it.
I didnt need someone cutting a hole into the backside.
Despite all those challenges, both muscle suits managed to make it through filming more or less intact.
Theyre quite expensive, so were very lucky they survived the whole season, says Blackman.
That kept me up at night.
I wont go into how much, but theyreextremelyexpensive.
I believe were making more ofeverythingfor the season coming up, says Hargadon.
What could be next?
Maybe well get to see one of those supermassive costumes after all.
