James Gunn talks people pleasing, dysfunction and wanting to make everybody happy

James Gunn has just tugged at heartstrings by getting honest about his people-pleasing past self.

The entire thing was shared during his interview with Rolling Stone that featured a number of topics, from his past to the creating of Batman, as well as Superman.

While starting off his introspective chat with the outlet Gunn said “I think on some level, everything I had done came from a pleasing place.”

“Came from that kid in a dysfunctional family trying to make everybody happy by dancing around.”

And “literally that’s what my f****** career was; not in total, but it was a neediness on my part. A need to be loved,” he explained too.

But in terms of the most transformative part that came as a result of his exit from Marvel, which happened due to some old tweets he made Gunn explained, “one of the most interesting things for me is my relationship with actors. How I got good at working with people like Chris Pratt is because he came in and I’m like, ‘Stop. You don’t need to juggle.’ Same thing with John Cena. ‘You don’t need to juggle for the audience to like you. You’re a f****** movie star. You just be present and be yourself and show that natural vulnerability that’s a part of who you are as a human being’.”

“And that speaks to people” he admitted too before clarifying that his human instincts do still creep in from time to time.

Gunn also added near the end that, “I’m not perfect on the other side of it.”

But “it’s not like I’m not still doing things to validate myself in some way. That’s still a part of me being a f****** imperfect human being, but my basic life choices are not made according to that.”