{"id":856873,"date":"2026-09-22T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856873\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T18:22:11","slug":"sean-gunn-has-retired-as-rocket-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856873\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Gunn has retired as Rocket Raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest bit of\u00a0actor news<\/a>\u00a0that should remind us to be good to our bodies, Sean Gunn says he\u2019s done standing in for Rocket Raccoon in the Marvel Studios franchise.\u00a0Speaking on\u00a0<\/a>The Brandon Davis Show<\/a>, the 52-year-old actor discussed the physical challenges of squatting in a green leotard at crotch-eye level alongside the likes of Dave Bautista, Zoe Salda\u00f1a, and Chris Pratt in the Guardians Of The Galaxy\u00a0movies.\u00a0\u201cDoes that hurt after a while?\u201d Davis asked, to which Gunn had a little chuckle. \u201cYes!\u201d the actor said, in a nice and very comfortable-looking cardigan. \u201cEveryone thinks it\u2019s my knees, but it\u2019s really my feet and my ankles\u2026 I\u2019m in a catcher\u2019s crouch, and I\u2019m pivoting a lot on my points of contact with the ground. I\u2019m doing a lot of pivoting in my ankles and feet. And over the years, I think it had a little bit of an effect on my physiology.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

No doubt, Gunn had the tougher job as Rocket Raccoon compared to top-billed Bradley Cooper, who voiced the feisty yet misunderstood trash panda from the comfort of a recording booth, while Gunn taxed his cartilage over the course of three successful movies. \u201cMy knees are fine, but since I turned 50 a couple of years ago, I am retired from Rocket,\u201d he told Davis. \u201cNot that [Marvel has] called, but if they did, I don\u2019t think I could do the motion reference for Rocket anymore. I\u2019m too old.\u201d While there are no announced plans for the Guardians\u2019 future (Pratt says his status as Star-Lord remains \u201cfluid\u201d<\/a>), Guardians Vol. 3<\/a> ended with Rocket Raccoon leading a new team, including Will Poulter\u2019s Adam Warlock, Vin Diesel\u2019s Groot, and, yes, Gunn\u2019s other Guardians character, Kraglin. So while Gunn may be through playing Rocket, his days with Marvel may not yet be over.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not like Gunn is through with the cape-movie scene altogether. His role as Justice Gang benefactor Maxwell Lord could pop up sooner rather than later: There are rumors that Gunn will appear <\/a>in the HBO Max series The People V. Gorilla Grodd<\/a>, and there\u2019s presumably still room for him in his director-brother<\/a>\u2018s DC Studios sequel, Man Of Tomorrow. Gunn just better play it cool if he ever finds himself in a room with Ted Kord, is all we\u2019re saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can watch Gunn\u2019s comments in the video below, beginning at the 32:15 mark. Remember to stretch every day, people! You\u2019ll thank yourself later.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest bit of\u00a0actor news\u00a0that should remind us to be good to our bodies, Sean Gunn says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-856873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}