

#Nickelodeon basketball stars serial
His personal horror pantheon includes 6-foot-2 Kane Hodder - best known for his portrayal of supernatural serial slasher Jason Voorhees in the “Friday the 13th” series. Since arriving in Los Angeles two years ago with no acting experience, the slender, loose-limbed native of the Boston burbs has played otherworldly grotesqueries in half a dozen movies and TV shows.ĭiLiegro follows in the thunderous footfalls of such immortals as 5-foot-11 Boris Karloff, the monster in “Frankenstein” (1935), and 5-foot-6 Haruo Nakajima, the quintessential baby boomer in “Godzilla” (1954) and 11 sequels. He stands 6 feet 9, which makes him one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and a man who dominates every scene. The 34-year-old DiLiegro is not the kind of actor who can be hired to play in the background of a scene: he can't blend into a crowd shot. Titled "Prey," directed by Dan Trachtenberg ( "10 Cloverfield Lane") and starring Amber Midthunder as the very human heroine, it starts streaming Aug. Having already amassed credits including "The Walking Dead" and "American Horror Story," DiLiegro now has the lead - or more accurately, the featured creature - in the seventh installment of the Predator franchise. It’s an inside job for which he’s particularly well suited. DiLiegro has quickly become one of Hollywood's top "creature actors." Sheathed in form-fitting, foam-and-latex get-ups, he appears on-screen in the guise of ghouls, space aliens and whatever a screenwriter can dream up.

Lately, his hands tend to be swathed in rubber gloves, sometimes balled into fists the size of honeydew melons, sometimes enhanced with 4-inch talons that would make Barbra Streisand envious.
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And those hands cradled a basketball like a protective father during the eight seasons in which DiLiegro played professional hoops overseas. “They’re butcher’s hands” offered Dario Cecchini, an eighth-generation butcher in Tuscany, where DiLiegro has deboned cattle pretty much every summer since 2016. He could hold an entire deck of cards - fanned out - without anyone seeing them.

Dane DiLiegro’s hands are as meaty as beefsteaks.
