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Dead’s Michael Rooker Joins Guardians of the Galaxy  After Chris
Pratt, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is continuing its streak
of hiring actors from beloved TV shows by casting The Walking
Dead’s Michael Rooker. He'll play Yondu, an expert hunter and
tribesman of the first planet outside of Earth's solar system
colonized by humans. He eventually helps form the Guardians.
Oddly enough, for a time Yondu also operated without a right
hand, just like Rooker’s Merle. Is this why he got the part?
It’s hard to say, but it couldn’t have hurt (unlike the metal
arm itself — as Rooker has said, that thing hurt like hell).
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