Last week we at Fangirlish were able to interview the exquisitely handsome and ridiculously charming Kellan Lutz about his upcoming starring role in The Legend Of Hercules. Did we mention how unbelievably genuine and sweet this guy is? We predict big things for this hunk!
On his most memorable scar from filming Hercules:
Riding a horse you get a lot of chaffing, which I learned and that’s not quite fun when you’re wearing a skirt and you don’t have jeans on. So I have on my ass 2 lines of scars that I had to put a lot of bio oil on to kinda get those to heal as fast as they could. So ya, they’re my most iconic. You asked for it.
On Keeping his body ripped and preparing for Hercules:
I live an active lifestyle, I just enjoy being outdoors and I’d rather play basketball or snowboard than be in the gym. I have fun in the gym, I am very creative, I compete against myself, I call it funning out, not working out. Soon as it becomes work, I don’t like working, that’s why I choose projects that are fun to me that my heart’s invested in. So preparing for the role of Hercules I always felt like as a little kid I always had middle child syndrome, I grew up on a lot of land with a lot of farm animals so I had a lot of alone time and I was able to use my imagination to create the world of Tarzan, of Mowgli, of He-Man, of Hercules, of the Ninja Turles.
I’d always be the hero that blew the fires out, it was a wierd lonely time
that I created my fantasy world in my head, and Hercules was always that original hero for me, and now that I’m an actor, I never had a dream to be an actor. I found this passion that I get to relive and fulfill this childhood dream of bringing this character to the screen. I was very well prepared for it because my education and knowledge of Greek mythology was already there I had already studies a lot of it because I enjoyed it. I really loved the Iliad and The Odyssey, I read those before they were mandatory in school to read. That fantasy world was just amazing to me because they’re all myths, and much our story of Hercules its one of the tales, there’s a plethora of tales that you could give and bring to life about Hercules that why every Hercules story can and should be different and there’s no right or wrong answer.
On learning to sword fight on screen:
Preparing to ride the horse and to work with the sword fighting I had Liam McIntire as my brother in arms who played Spartacus, I love that show, I knew he was a good guy because Renny (the director) had great discernment with who to cast, everyone I worked with on this movie was family to me, really from day one was very easy going and all had the same motive to make the best movie possible. It was amazing and I am so proud of everyone’s work. But Liam being the fighter that he is I went to him as humbly as I could and said ‘look brother, I don’t have time to learn will you help me?’. We would just battle each other and then he taught me how to use the mirror in my place to just draw 8 lines and stand there in front of it and act like I’m the bad guy, just to get the flow of it, it’s like a dance. The funny thing was he taught me what to do (with your empty hand), as your stabbing people you don’t think about this hand. Most the time they look like spirit fingers,its not a good look, cause you watch the playback and you’re like “what do I do?” you don’t realize it, so what we do is we take a little piece of metal to hold in our hands, cause its really hard to remember to do that (clench the empty fist) but if you are holding on to something that no one else can see, you get the strong strikes. That was a really great secret that he taught. He helped make me me into Hercules. I was very well prepared, I didn’t feel any pressure. I was living my childhood dream and I just embraced it.
