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A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, Hook stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook.
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- 05 Mar 2014
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What does Rufio look like now? Source: YouTube
RUFIO! Rufio! Ru-Fi-OOOOOOOOOOOOOh!
Back in 1991 Dante Basco starred as the tri-hawked leader of the Lost Boys in Steven Spielberg’s Hook.
Out of the thousands of kids who auditioned for the part, Spielberg said he cast Basco because he was the only one who genuinely scared him.
Dante Basco as Rufio in Hook. Source: Supplied
After Hook, Basco continued acting and has appeared in TV shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Entourage and CSI: Miami. He’s also starred in a number of films and has voiced characters in video games such as Terminator Salvation and Final Fantasy XIII.
Two years ago Basco made headlines when he said there was another Hook movie in the works.
“Actually there’s a film in development, the Rufio film, where a hotshot group of kids from the East Coast graduated and they wrote this whole script, the prequel to Hook and it’s the Rufio story,” he said at the time.
Unfortunately the film remains just as lost as the lost boys.
Dante Basco is all grown up. Source: Getty Images
Rufio in 2014. Source: Getty Images
Basco, who is now 39 years old, did however make it up to Hook fans earlier this year when he recreated his famous fight scene from the movie for CineFix:
Hook fight scene
In October, Basco paid tribute to his Hook co-star Robin Williams and said working with the comedian changed his life.
“I was lucky to work with him (Robin Williams) as an actor and witness first hand the magic of what made him a legend — the wit and other worldly improv skills — as well as see him single-handedly put the morale of a movie set, easily hundreds of people, on his shoulders and kept everyone laughing as they worked long hours for what seemed like months on end,” he wrote in on his blog after Williams’ death.
