Andy Weir

Like, so there are multiple rocketeers like operating the puppet.

The puppet was created in conjunction with James Ortiz, who is the lead puppeteer and the voice of Rocky and,

Um, he's a theater guy.

He recently did, um, Audrey 2 and Little Shop of Horrors, uh, in the Little Shop of Horrors revival.

So he's been doing like theater puppetry.

This is his first film ever.

And it's huge.

What a film to have for your first.

To talk about, like, it was his idea to do the kind of puppetry where it is like all these different guys on rods on individual legs.

Right.

So they did that for a lot of the movie.

But there are certain sequences like when they're in a space where you can't fit.

Yeah.

You know, all the puppeteers, what you in our notes called the volume, but what James Ortiz called the don't go crazy room.

Yeah.

Um, and, like, they can't all fit in there, so what they did is they had an animatronic Rocky that was connected to a puppet that they were operating off-camera, so they would still do the puppetry off-camera, and then the animatronic Rocky would, like, do it as well.

And then there is a digital Rocky in, like...

some of the, like, orb moments and stuff like that.

But also James Ortiz talked about how he sometimes would get in a hamster ball, him himself, and run around set and bump into things and just, like, record his dialogue.

I think this is one of the greatest on-screen creations that we've ever seen.