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But the role of the mysterious Chief — whom we first got a glimpse of in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in a scene when Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) comes across a 1918 photo of Wonder Woman and Chief — is certainly his most high-profile to date.

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Wonder Woman is getting rave reviews, and not just for its blockbuster scope and dizzying action sequences. The Toronto Star also singled out the acting, in particular the chemistry between the Gadot, Bremner, Pine, Taghmaoui and Brave Rock, saying the ensemble brought the film “eccentric charm, bravado and gravitas.”

Brave Rock received red-carpet treatment with his co-stars at a high-profile première at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles on May 15. The glitzy night was a far cry from the often gruelling five months he spent in England on the secretive set.

“It was really tough,” he said. “When you’re doing 30 takes and you’re running through the trenches, and every time you take a step your foot literally goes into the ground a foot down. And with the gear — I’m wearing probably, I would say, 100 to 150 pounds on me — that was really tough.”

Still, it all helped with a camaraderie that developed between co-stars during the shoot, which Brave Rock said was easily rekindled on the red carpet.

“It was a lot of night scenes and it was really tough,” he says. “The weather was tough and we were all very tired. But it was a time when it all had to come together. Sometimes in was four o’clock in the morning. The crew and filmmakers, the sets they were building were up in three days and looked like they had been there forever. It was just amazing to see the magnitude of the production.”