There’s a reason why Dave Bautista wears his signature tinted sunglasses to movie premieres and red carpet events (and no, it’s not necessarily so he can look stylish). Chatting with Men’s Health in 2021, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor said wearing them helps calm the social anxiety he feels whenever he has to step out in public. He said it serves a sort of “pacifier” — a thing he does to help soothe his nerves. “When press junkets go on for days and days, I struggle,” Bautista, who has admittedly struggled with shyness and public aversion since he was a kid, explained. “When I was a kid, you could barely get two words out of me. I was just such an introvert, and I was attached to my mom’s leg.”
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Without his sunglasses, Bautista feels vulnerable and exposed. “But if I put on glasses and a hat, that’s my security blanket,” he said in another interview with GQ. “I want to cover up and have some protection.” Speaking about his social anxiety, the former wrestler said it took him a long time — “some 40 odd years” — before he came to terms with it. “I just got tired of feeling embarrassed about it and started owning it!” he told a fan on Twitter, adding, “And I wear sunglasses a lot! Trust me it helps!”
