'In the beginning, I was a bit scared.” DemeterMovie’s jbotet on how he built his career playing some of horror's most popular monsters, from ‘Mama’ to ‘Alien: Covenant’:
. "It was always my wont to create a creature movie here, to portray Dracula in a way we haven't really seen much. It's not really described much in the novel, how he looks when he's out on the boat. We just know that he has the ability to change into all kinds of shapes. So, we were free to create this demon as we pleased."
Audiences will witness a dramatic change in the Dracula creature over the course of the film as he gains strength by feasting on the blood of the Demeter's crew. "One side [is] the old fragile man, who's over 400 years old, who is now suffering from a lack of blood, and he's become almost like an addict," Øvredal says. "When he regains his powers, through killing the crew one by one, he then becomes the demon.
Botet is talking over Zoom from his home in Spain while one of his two cats wanders around in the background. "He's Selva," the actor points out. "Selva is 'jungle' in Spanish. And the other guy is Akira, like the comic." Amiable, garrulous, and clearly in love with the filmmaking process, Botet could not seem more different from the fear-inducing ghouls he specializes in playing onscreen. "He's just the sweetest guy, he truly is," says filmmaker.
You could say that the 6 feet 7 inches tall Botet was born to play the kind of elongated or otherwise outsized creatures that pepper the filmographies of Wan, Øvredal, and Del Toro, the latter of whom cast him as multiple ghosts in. As a child, the actor was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder which increases growth in limbs and extremities. Not too long ago, it would likely have shortened his life by decades.
"Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder," he explains. "It makes you so flexible in the joints, very long. In childhood, you grow so fast if you have Marfan. The doctor told my father, 'Your child probably [will] never get 20 years.' I was so lucky because medicine has changed so much. Now, the expectancies of Marfan life, it's so big, it's like 75 or even more. But, yes, I need to take care, be responsible, and go to the doctor yearly.
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