Dave Bautista has made no secret that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 will be his final time playing Drax the Destroyer, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t fully invested in making the movie a huge success. While promoting his new movie Knock at the Cabin, Bautista hyped up the latest addition to the Guardians franchise, calling it the best of the trilogy. During an interview with Uproxx, the wrestler-turned-actor said:

Over the decades, trilogies have been well known, in the main, for delivering some of their weakest entries with their third part. However, Marvel Studios have certainly bucked that trend with movies like Captain America: Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, and Spider-Man: No Way Home delivering their sub-franchise best with those third movies. This looks to continue with Ant-Man and the Wasp and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 this year.

“It’s very emotional. It’s emotional, it’s dark, and it’s deep and it’s inspiring. I think this is going to be a special… Obviously, I haven’t seen it and I always feel like that every time. I thought Guardians was going to be the best, or Guardians 2 was going to be the best. And after reading the script and after being on this film and filming it, it’s just so much better. It’s just so much better, so much deeper. It’s so much more personal. And there’s such a massive inspiring message to this film, but I think it’s going to be the best Guardians. I think unlike a lot of franchises, we’re leaving with our best. We haven’t been watered down as we’ve gone along, but I think we’re leaving with our best film.”

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Similar to the death of Tony Stark and the end of Steve Rogers’ story in Avengers: Endgame, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 is set to deliver the final act for several members of the ragtag group of heroes. With Bautista’s exit guaranteed, the actor expressed his disbelief at how much of a headline-grabbing story it has become. He said:

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 arrives in cinemas later this year on May 5.

“Yeah, it’s weird. I don’t know why it’s like news. So this is my seventh film as Drax and my third Guardians. It was like our trilogy. That’s kind of what we all signed up for, to do a trilogy, and I think this is going to be the last version of our Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s hard (to walk away), but it’s time. It’s the perfect exit. We had those perfect kind of character arcs and such a storybook ending. I constantly relate it to the way I ended my wrestling career. I ended it on a storybook note, and I would never go back and tarnish that. And it’s the same with this with Drax. I just got to end the perfect way. I would never sign up for another job as Drax just to get a paycheck. I would tarnish that, and I won’t do it.”