Cooper provided the voice for Rocket Raccoon in the Marvel Studios movie, but a different actor entirely played the role on set: the director’s brother, Sean Gunn.
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Of all the characters in Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, a walking, talking, cursing, bomb-building raccoon named Rocket — featuring the voice of Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper — ranks pretty high on the scale of Things You've Never Seen Before in a Superhero Movie.
There is one crucial element of the character, however, that you definitely won't get to see in Guardians of the Galaxy: Sean Gunn, the actor who actually played Rocket on set, under the direction of co-writer-director James Gunn, Sean's older brother.
Except that you will see Sean Gunn in Guardians of the Galaxy, just as a separate character entirely.
Let's back up a bit. When James Gunn was in the process of casting Guardians last year, he had his younger brother Sean — a character actor best known for playing Kirk on Gilmore Girls — read various roles opposite auditioning actors. "I always had my fingers crossed that I'd be involved in some way," Sean Gunn told BuzzFeed. "But I didn't know what it was or how it was going to work out."
Then, a week before filming was set to begin in London during the summer and fall of 2013, Gunn got the call: He'd been cast as Kraglin, the right-hand man of the morally suspect smuggler Yondu (Michael Rooker). And he would be reading Rocket's lines on set.
"It was like, 'OK, we want you to do this, and this, and can you leave a week from today, for five months?'" Gunn said with a laugh. "On one hand, it was like, Wow, that's crazy, and on the other, it was like, Awesome, yes, I can't wait."
Complicating matters: Gunn, 40, dove into the situation without a full grasp of what, exactly, he would be doing as Rocket. "The way it was explained to me, I was still partially confused by [what I was supposed to do] until I actually got there," he said. "I didn't know if … I was going to be off-camera the whole time, or if I was going to be in the [motion-capture] suit with the balls, or exactly what it was." He chuckled. "I was just kind of like, I'm going to show up for work and whatever it is, that's what I'll do."
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