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A casting story worth knowing if you follow physical performance in film: Robert Bobroczkyi is 7'7", a former Romanian basketball prodigy whose playing career ended due to scoliosis surgery before it could reach the NBA level he'd been projected for. He's now two credits into what looks like a genuine creature performance career — the Offspring in "Alien: Romulus" (2024, directed by Fede Álvarez) and Pirate Clark in A24's "Backrooms" (2026, directed by Kane Parsons), which has become the most profitable film in A24's history at over $330 million worldwide. The comparison being made in coverage is to Javier Botet — the Spanish actor whose elongated physique made him the go-to physical performer for horror creatures across more than a decade of major productions. Bobroczkyi has seven additional inches on Botet and is on his second credit at 26. The practical case for this casting approach: at 7'7" with a slim, elongated frame, Bobroczkyi creates a silhouette and a quality of movement that digital effects still struggle to replicate convincingly. The physicality of how a body that tall moves — the geometry of limbs and the way they arrive — is something that stilts and CGI extensions don't quite reproduce. That's a production reason, not just an aesthetic one. He turns 26 today. The trajectory is worth watching. https://lnkd.in/gkx-kZXB