Wingard did give a little bit of insight into the character by teasing, “What I will say is I’d want to play with that [action figure] if I was a kid!” so it certainly sounds like Stevens is once again doing what he does best — being the coolest and most charismatic person on screen. Wingard also clarified a little bit of additional information about Kong’s arm. “And though Apex isn’t in this story in a literal way, we kind of hint that Monarch absorbed a lot of the Apex technology after the last film,” he said. “The glove Kong is wearing, it’s somewhat insinuated that’s Apex technology.” So perhaps the “hand” Stevens was talking about is literal, and he’ll be involved in some way with giving Kong some extra strength.
“We meet Trapper being extremely up close with Kong,” added Stevens. “So for that sequence, they had a giant piece of Kong’s … [laughs] I was going to say a giant piece of Kong’s anatomy, but that sounds really wrong,” he joked. “They had a real bit of Kong that I had to interact with. That was kind of wild.” Okay, so Stevens wasn’t probably dealing with King Kong’s King Dong, but the Freudian slip was too funny not to highlight.
Honestly, King Kong’s King Dong probably wouldn’t even be that large, regardless of his gargantuan size. Most apes actually have pretty small dangles because genital sizes have evolved to increase the possibility of mating, and large gorillas and apes have never had an issue making the beast with two backs. But some absolute legend on Reddit did do the wiener math and we’re probably looking at a six-footer all things considered. There, I saved you a very cursed Google search.
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” hits theaters on April 12, 2024.