It’s Semi-Official – Vin Diesel Talks Voicing Groot In Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

Rumors that actor Vin Diesel was to be in an upcoming Marvel movie surfaced when the actor said send a message via Twitter that he was going to have a meeting with the people at Marvel. This message was accompanied by an image of him standing in front of comic book cover featuring Giant-Man, aka Ant-Man. The image and message was more than enough to send us and the fans in rumor frenzy. We was going to play Ant-Man, then it was Vision, then an anonymous source revealed that the actor was going to be in an adaptation of World’s Most Wanted (which we dismissed), then a couple of days ago the actor changed his Facebook profile picture to Groot, which he immediately took down. Well this was as good as an official confirmation, but still he could be teasing the fans.

Well, today in an interview to Hero Complex, the actor pretty much confirmed that he will be playing/voicing Groot.

And without any delays here is the interview:

“Hero Complex: OK, so why Groot?

Vin Diesel: I’m an actor. I can do whatever the … I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do — as far as Steven Spielberg and his advice — is to defy expectations. So if everybody thinks you’re going to go for this one thing and you flip it entirely and go for the strangest Marvel character, it’s interesting. And when something is interesting, it’s inspiring.

Why did you post a picture of the character on Facebook this weekend?

Diesel: I get inspired by things. So if somebody sends me a book of conceptual art that’s the best character design work I’ve ever seen — I’m not kidding, I see that and I want to be a little cryptic and I want to say something positive. Even if it’s as cryptic as an old, dated image of a character.

Marvel is notoriously secretive about its movies, and you’re very open. Isn’t it mad you’ve been dropping hints about “Guardians”?

Diesel: The last thing they are is mad. I’m pretty open, but I have been secretive about this. I went to Comic-Con and I got blasted while I was on the Hall H panel for “Riddick.” Someone asked a Marvel question. I couldn’t say anything because of that secrecy.”

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