“I loved the movie.
Accomplished the only word I can think of to describe it. I felt very
happy to see it and the laughing during the jokes felt very good. You may like a guardian more than the other
ones and when you get them all together everyone wants to go see it.”
Guardians is the story of childhood’s greatest heroes –
North (Santa), the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman uniting
to defend children from despair in the form of Pitch Black – the Bogeyman. It’s visually stunning within an emotional
landscape that is original and asks tough questions.
“What makes it special to me is the colour that they used,
it’s so colourful! Amazing, amazing colours! The dream sand, Pitch’s sand,
black and shiny. I like purple and
black, I like all the colours they used, on Santa, the Tooth Fairy, it’s all
amazing. It is colourful like a kid
likes to see like Foot Loops. You want
to bite it, it’s so colourful. They use
colour for that reason. And Pitch is so
different his face is like Snape in Harry Potter, a twist.”
Filmmaker Rod Lurie chose Dakota to star in Resurrecting the
Champ in 2007 when. He was deeply
impressed by the then eight year old actor.
Says Lurie, “I cast Dakota essentially off of an audition tape that his mom
had made of him. We had been through so many kids, so many kids and I was
pulling out what little hair I had left. When his tape showed up it was kind of
a miracle. He wasn't only able to traverse all the emotions needed for the
character - he seemed to understand the emotions as well. He reminded me
instantly of little Justin Henry from Kramer Versus Kramer. He also knew everybody else's lines. I
remember one scene in which one of the actors forgot their lines and Dakota
would whisper them to that actor.”
Dakota says his role in Noah is emotional, but he doesn’t
want to give anything away. He does
however share his technique for meeting the emotional challenges on his films.
“I think of bad situations which is not really a good thing to do but I think
of them and it brings out great emotions. It’s not a pleasant thing to think of
generally but it’s what I do, like with my dog in a bad situation or something
happens. Something that happened in the
past and it makes you cry.”
Dakota’s acting career began young. Almost right out of the womb, you might say.
“My mum put me in acting. I did my first commercial for Canadian Blood Services
when I was two weeks old.” And she’s still
calling the shots, allowing Dakota to make no more than two or three film a
year. “That’s it. I gotta keep in
school.” But he does get the odd Friday
off for publicity purposes!
Goyo’s an enthusiastic student and his friends don’t bug him
about being in the movies. “I don’t bring my acting career to my friends they
treat me like a normal kid and I appreciate that. It’s a lot of work because I have to mix in my
school and family and friends. When I’m
on set I am very disciplined but when I’m at home in a regular kid.” He’s happy to be home now but says “I love
traveling and the airports one of my favourite parts of making movies.”
As for the kind of role he’d like to do in the future, he
names one of his favourites. “Have you
ever watched Will Smith's Pursuit of Happyness with Jaden Smith his son? To do that would be an amazing experience. I love how he brings that emotion he makes
you cry ten minutes into the movie. I
like how it becomes happy at the end and your emotions run through the entire
thing.” Among his credits are Thor, Reel Steel, TV series work and he’ll soon be seen in The Legend of William Tell and Dark Skies. Among his ambitions – to direct.
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