If you're going to pet him, mind his wings. And I just remember Chris, our VFX supervisor, had to remind us that his wings are there- that's where his feathers are. “I remember there's one scene where Simu was petting him and it's the first time we see him. “It's one thing to work in a green environment, but when you're interacting with something that in itself is acting, I mean there were scenes where we had to make sure that Morris could see, and that he was propped up on the steering wheel,” notes Awkwafina. For the first time in her career, Awkwafina also found herself interacting with a green-screen creature, though it took some getting used to at first. Morris was very sensitive, and it was a pleasure to build that rapport.”īut Sir Ben isn’t the only one to get up close and personal with Morris. And very soon, it was like having a real little animal with me and a pet rather than a green blob on the end of a pole. And I did build a rapport with the handler and helped him time certain gestures and movements, to which I could respond. “Morris is sometimes on the end of a very long pole. “We had a Morris handler ,” Kingsley recalls, remembering his days with the faceless creature. And Sir Ben, admittedly, really, really felt very comfortable with green blob Morris.” He would actually just breathe life into him naturally while Morris was sitting on his lap, or when he was conversing with him. “Sir Ben became very attached to the green blob that was Morris on-set, and he just wouldn't let go of green blob Morris. “It was actually fairly easy to imagine Morris because of Sir Ben,” Cretton states. To see that relationship blossom over the course of this movie was a joy to watch.” The returning MCU actor quickly became the go-to Morris person on set. As Cretton continues, “Sir Ben became a master of Morris and knew Morris better than anybody. However, it wasn’t hard to imagine Morris there considering that Kingsley took such a liking to the character. Morris is black and brown, kind of a classic dachshund.”īringing him to life on-screen took the work of Cretton, the VFX team, and the cast and crew on-set to visualize the creature, who looked more like a green blob than anything else while filming. “ Morris moves a lot like Morris and sounds a lot like Morris. “The spirit of Morris is definitely inspired by my Morris, who I love very much,” Cretton explains. Telling, Cretton reveals Morris is based on, and shares a namesake, with his own family dog, a 15-year-old dachshund. And while he might have a fantastical backstory in the world of the movie, Cretton pulled from his real-life to flesh out the little round, furry being. Once down there, they come across Trevor and Morris, and learn that the creature actually hails from the secret, village Ta Lo- that’s why Wenwu has kept him alive for so long. Shang-Chi, Katy, and Xialing (Meng’er Zhang) meet Morris halfway through the movie, after they, too, are thrown into the dungeon at Wenwu’s (Tony Leung) compound. One day Destin pointed and said, ‘That thing is cool, it should be in the movie.’ And that was the birth of Morris.” “We were still in the early days and somehow a drawing of the Chinese deity called a Hundun, a God of Chaos, ended up on the wall. “Whenever we are in the development days on a movie, we put together a little war room, and this particular war room was covered with concept art, and comic pages, and inspiration for what a Shang-Chi movie could be,” producer Jonathan Schwarz tells. Introduced as the only companion to the imprisoned Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and Katy (Awkwafina) are absolutely aghast to see the creature - meanwhile Trevor is just happy to know he hasn’t been imagining the little guy all these years. Who’s round, cuddly, has four wings, no visible eyes, and steals every scene he’s in? Why, it’s Morris, the creature along for the ride in Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings.
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