r/interesting • u/RuinRevolutionary374 • 22h ago
MISC. In Backrooms, instead of being fully CGI, Pirate Clark was played by 7’7” Robert Bobroczkyi, a former college basketball player. Spoiler
Note: The peg leg and the facial animation was CGI in the film.
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u/SlippinGymy 22h ago
He also played the offspring in alien Romulus
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u/LPulseL11 22h ago
Oh shit that was hella creepy
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u/big-dick-back-intown 17h ago
When I saw it in theaters someone audibly gagged when he showed up, like loud as fuck
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u/cracked-tumbleweed 11h ago
I said NOPE….louder than I meant to🫠
Great time tho.
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u/Conscious_Pipe_605 9h ago
Same, but I think I said "Fuck that" instead. It just slipped out the moment that thing came into view lol
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u/AndVank212 21h ago
I've never seen my friends squirm more until that scene in theaters, it was hilarious
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u/Greedy-Pilot-4538 21h ago
He's def found a niche in the industry
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u/reginaldwrigby 19h ago
It’s an amazing story honestly. Real Sports (rip) covered him years ago and highlighted his insecurities, which apparently are common in pretty much all people above 7”, as well as the extreme pressures to be acceptable at basketball. Look at him now, Mr Hollywood
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u/Artikay 19h ago
I still have not seen Romulus. Is it good? Is it a stand alone movie? I can't remember much about prometheous or covenant.
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u/Ok-Fishing3376 19h ago
Romulus was great! You can definitely watch it as a standalone there’s not much that’s relevant to prometheous/covenant
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u/InstructionDeep5445 19h ago
Pretty good & solid Alien movie with some nostalgia factor if you love the old movies
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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 21h ago
That dude’s body proportions are nuts. He doesn’t even look real.
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u/thetrickyginger 20h ago
I don't want to roast him, but dude looks like a Stretch Armstrong that lost its elasticity.
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u/TheGame81677 21h ago
Is that guy healthy? That’s the thinnest person I have ever seen.
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u/GardenDwell 21h ago
he's 7'7", he definitely has to have some kind of medical condition in the first place and physics is actively working against him having a healthy figure. that's probably the heaviest his body can possibly be
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u/TheMorgueDonator 20h ago
Apparently his height is naturally caused by genetics(his father is actually 7'1"), though he seems to have scoliosis, can't gain muscle or weight(he has tried), has joint issues, and has to eat 8k+ calories a day.
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u/Lucky_Reporter256 20h ago
8k is insane. That sounds truly miserable
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u/WtfThisIsntWii 19h ago
That was Michael Phelps’ intake when he was actively training for the Olympics. This dude is eating the same amount to just kinda walk around.
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u/Accomplished-City484 10h ago
Isn’t that just hunger though? It’s not like he’d have to force feed all that
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u/guydoestuff 16h ago
meanwhile i barely eat 1500 at times. sometimes way over yes but a lot of the time i hardly eat and no im not a wafer im 6'2" ish 266 lbs. just a lot of mobility issues thanks to being disabled.
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u/Accomplished-City484 10h ago
Sorry to hear about your mobility issues, I’m a similar height and weight and started going to the gym but started getting shin splints so trying to work around that. I wanted to focus on diet next, do you use an app for calorie counting or do you just already kinda know that stuff?
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u/poblazaid 21h ago
Have you seen Javier Botet ?
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u/electricalserge 13h ago
Javier Botet's height is due to Marfan syndrome. Bobroczkyi's height isn't due to a condition or genetic disorder like gigantism as seen with most extremely people. He was simply genetically predisposed to be extremely tall.
His father was 7'1 and mother was 6'1.
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u/A-Giant-Blue-Moose 20h ago
There's comes a point when the heart struggles to get enough blood where it needs to go.
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u/JonnySmallPotatoes 21h ago
I wonder how many calories his body needs a day?
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u/chinese_sweatshop 21h ago
2000 calories wow that’s quite a lot
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u/Westafricangrey 17h ago
To operate at that height he’d need probably 4 times the daily intake of a normal person. I’m bulking in the gym & I feel like I’m force feeding myself at 2800 calories a day
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u/Cantstandya-777 22h ago
While I didn’t really care for the movie, I hope he keeps taking parts like this. He really is perfect for these kinds of performances.
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u/Exact-Photograph-652 21h ago
His alien Romulus role was insanely well done, I hope he keeps taking more roles like this
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u/LessBig715 22h ago
Looks like he has a prosthetic leg in the first pic
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u/omyomo 20h ago
He's got a green sock and shoe so it can be edited out. The monster in the movie has a peg leg.
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u/LessBig715 20h ago
Yeah, he is really thin though. Did you see the movie, I was thinking of renting it, but it’s $20. If you did, how was it?
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u/Mrsam_25 20h ago
You know there are 456 movies i like other than backrooms and they're much cheaper to rent especially the ones from .nl (Netherlands) those Europeans make them cheap.
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u/AgentCirceLuna 16h ago
The use of ‘vibes, maxxing, locked in, cooked’ and such to describe settings and description pisses me off.
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u/FireHammer09 20h ago
I loved it.
Not a lot of movies lately just go all in on making their set design so unnerving and the movie gets a lot of atmosphere and creep factor from the uncanny valley on how something as basic as rooms and furniture should appear.
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u/probloodmagic 22h ago
You ever think about how big dogs die younger than small dogs because it's harder on their hearts to pump blood to their whole body and then get sad. Anyway
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u/ggfchl 21h ago
In some films, you see dwarves (think Peter Dinklage) casted. Not too many films you see 7+ ft tall people.
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u/tickingboxes 21h ago
*cast
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u/Little_Challenge_160 19h ago
Your wright butt I'd doesrnt make you knot a gnerd for takin da tyme 2 pointe I'd outs
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u/islaisla 22h ago
This movie is AWESOME
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u/whineyinternetkid 22h ago
Wait till you see the thousands of youtube videos exactly like this
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u/Chirrrpy 21h ago
Wow, tall! He could get that limb off my roof. And the high up grocery store chips
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 22h ago
So he was doing blackface the whole time?!
/s
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u/weirdgroovynerd 21h ago
I know who I am!
I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as a...
... pirate!
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u/izza123 21h ago
I liked the movie until they introduced the facsimile people and the Clark monster. Tanked the tone imo
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u/NoLibrarian5149 18h ago
The Next Matthew McGrory (RIP) it seems…
Really tall dude that takes on interesting roles in quirky movies.
Ran in to him out in the suburbs when my daughter was really young (late 90s/2000) when he was standing outside a store in Exton PA. I only knew him from the Howard Stern Show and the Marilyn Manson video at that point.
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u/michelobX10 22h ago
Damn. He looks freaky even without the mask.
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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever 22h ago
He’s apparently just the result of having two very tall parents (well… dad. But mom is 6’2”), not a hormonal or other condition. But I feel for the guy. He struggled to put on muscle mass and it kept him from advancing in basketball. Him running looks really uncomfortable for him.
I’m glad he can do this stuff, though he’s also multi lingual and has a degree in cyber security I believe, so chap sounds like he’s gonna be alright!
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u/BVRPLZR_ 21h ago
Tall folks like this don’t end up lasting very long unfortunately. The heart just gives up eventually. The guy that played Tiny in House of 1000 Corpses died of heart failure at just 32
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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever 21h ago
Yep. Reckon that’s one of the blessings for people who worry they’re too short.
32 is way too young… :-(
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u/Zealousideal-Trash5 21h ago
Anyone else intensely dislike how human they made the monsters in an effort to create an emotionally driven narrative?
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u/Peanut_007 19h ago
I actually thought it was a much more cohesive idea then just having random monsters. The monster is just what a person looks like when you jumble all the parts of their life together without any real structure.
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u/Zealousideal-Trash5 19h ago
It wasn’t just random monsters though, it was the concept of a creature from an extra dimension or another universe all together. Sure there were simplifications for budget reasons in the source material but we could have kept that spirit of true otherness.
Ambigous monsters ask more questions than they answer and that’s part of what makes horror so wonderful - the not knowing.
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u/Ornery-Sleep3584 20h ago
Shoutout to practical effects, this looks way more unsettling than any CGI tall guy ever could
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u/AFerociousPineapple 17h ago
I know he was hired for just being a big human but he did do a good job and I hope he keeps getting roles, he was genuinely unnerving in Alien Romulus
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 21h ago edited 21h ago
I still haven't seen it yet but thanks for spoiling it, dingdong.
Wtf
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u/RuinRevolutionary374 21h ago
I totally forgot to mark the spoiler tag. Really sorry. Hope you still like the movie whenever you watch it.
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u/LiitleGreenMan 20h ago
He also played the long limbed alien in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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u/splashaddikt 22h ago
Seems racist
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u/maynardd1 21h ago
Seems stupid..
I mean you, of course
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