“I was on the way to the gym and my manager called me,” Bautista recalled. “And he said, hold on for a second, and he wouldn’t tell me until he got my agent on the phone, and he said, ‘Congratulations, Mr. Drax.’ And I literally just broke down. I drove home, I was just a mess….It was a big deal to me and I can never explain to people how big this was for me. It was a life-changing thing for me. It was hard for me to leave behind wrestling but I worked and struggled and worked and struggled and auditioned and auditioned and finally got the dream role of a lifetime.”
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Guardians of the Galaxy will be in U.S. theaters on August 1. A significant presence at Comic Con International: San Diego is likely, but director James Gunn has rejected the notion that the film may be screened at or around that event.
