When it comes to playing Dr. Curt Connors – AKA the Lizard – in The Amazing Spider-Man , Rhys Ifans didn't want anyone taking away his ability to create the character.

"The majority𝐆 of the time I'm me, I'm a human, not a Lizard. That's hard enough. I did have the CGI suit for certain scenes,” he told Cinema Blend.

“The Lizard is nine-feet tall. There꧅ was one day that I went on set and they had a double, a big, big guy, playing me, as the Lizard. I looked at it and I went: 'No.' Following th🐻at Marc [Webb] let me know all the physicality you'll see in the Lizard is my own."

Once he had the dir💖ector's word that the Lizard would be all him, he was amazed at what the technology could do to help that: "I had a green suit on, and tജhen this cardboard head and these big claws. It was the most fucking insane...”

A cardbo✅ard head! It doesn't sound that high-tech but Ifans isn't finished ℱyet.

“Each and every time you see the Lizard, the technology is so advanced now that when the Lizard's eyes move, they'r𓄧e my e🌃yes. If I frown or show any emotion, they're my emotions."

The Amazing Spider-Man opens July 2012.