![]() “I’m not moving like a normal human being in any case. “When you’re playing these kinds of characters, because of the parameters of the makeup, the suit, or what it is you’re wearing, your biometrics are altered,” Steger said. Once he was suited up as the monster, though, he lived in his own little world that made it even easier to feel and act alien. Whether or not Steger is right about his musings remains to be seen since, so far, little is known about the Upside-Down and its denizens (if the monster is even from the Upside-Down). We have one-and-a-half to two pounds of alien, non-human cells in our bodies that we’re actually living in symbiosis with.” “Stranger Things” Millie Bobby Brown and Demogorgon Netflix So I was imagining, maybe I’m like, a colony. Slime molds are really fascinating organisms because they’re these small microscopic individuals, but they come together and create a whole unit, a whole other form. The DNA is closer to an animal than it is to plants, but it is something different, like some kind of a fungus or a mushroom. I imagine that perhaps the character is less of an animal or a plant, but more like a mushroom. “There were these basic things of the biometrics - I felt like I was from a heavier gravity. “I was actually from a different dimension as well,” he continues. I ask myself questions when I do characters like this: What’s the gravity like for where this creature comes from? Where does it breathe? What’s the nature of its consciousness? I mean, it’s obviously not psychologically human. He explains, “I read the scripts but I didn’t fully understand the cosmography, so I was kind of embellishing myself. ![]() ‘Alien,’ the early films of David Cronenberg.”ĭespite this direction, Steger wanted to create in his mind a biology and environment for his monster that would inform his performance. John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing’ is one that obviously comes up quite a bit. “They showed me the lines for the creature and we discussed different film influences that they were playing with. “I got a call to go meet with the Duffer Brothers, who I didn’t really know anything about at the time,” Steger said. READ MORE: ‘Stranger Things’ Composers Discuss Creating That Haunting Theme Song That winning combo created the man behind “Stranger Thing’s” monster, Hollywood’s go-to creature guy Mark Steger, who has both performed and choreographed movements for all things eerie in projects such as “World War Z,” “American Horror Story” and “I Am Legend.” In an interview with IndieWire, Steger detailed some of the influences and surprisingly complex biological inspirations that went into creating the Demogorgon. If Netflix’s “Stranger Things” has taught us anything (besides how to punch a hole through dimensions), it’s that childhood and creepy stuff go hand-in-hand. ![]()
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