Roy L. Dennis

I've seen a couple of scenes.

There's this scene where he's interacting with this other girl and she's looking at him like fucking Rocky Dennis in mask.

That's like an endearing, oh, look at this deformed little boy.

And I'm just like, what are we doing here? why are we giving them this like emotional backstory to these monsters like why why is it that every time that we're trying to revive these franchises even with the fucking uh uh uh uh nightmare on elm street that they did with uh with uh jackie yeah yeah where it's like well he was a pedophile but he was kind of misunderstood and the people were mean to him he's just like what are we doing What is this? Like, why are we trying to reframe these monsters into like...

habits.

It says here, I wrote down this trivia, that William Ragsdale had auditioned to play Rocky Dennis in Mask.

Wow.

They lost to Eric Stoltz, right? But they remembered how good he was.

Yeah.

Now, he could be showing her a photo of...

Rocky Dennis from Mask.

Yeah.

[laughs]

... uh, what, a Rocky Dennis, like, m- uh, acromega- megala- Elephant Man mask? Or, like, was, you know, was she hanging out with Cher? Um, [laughs] I just...

[laughs] Oh, no.

M-A-S-C. [laughs]

It's the one, it's based on Roy L.

Rocky Dennis.

A boy who had craniodiaphysial dysplasia.

I feel like I did pretty good there

An extremely rare genetic disorder known commonly as lionitis.

Dude, this guy looks like a freaking lion over here.

due to disfiguring disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes and um rocky dennis that crazy son of a just kidding um it's not his fault he can't control what he looks like dude you got to play life with the cards you're dealt dude that is one of the things about life as well as it's kind of like destiny dude it's like You just play with the cards that you have.

You're like, that's his starting point of life is he has this disease that makes everyone stare at him all the time, wherever he goes.

Yeah.

He played Dozer, uh, which is a biker with a severe speech impediment who, uh, befriends Rocky Dennis and his mother in the movie Mask.

Oh, okay.

The 80, the '85 movie, the movie from '85-

He becomes The Fly.

Also shout out to Rocky Dennis in the '80s movie Mask.

There you go.

Uh, I put Darkman, Sam Raimi's Darkman, which, uh-

Oh, God

... you look like Rocky Dennis a little bit.

[laughs]

We have a medical, uh, professional in the hallway ready to take a look at it.