Craig the Beautiful...
Fall Sci-Fi Mangazine HQ Scans courtesy of my site MultipleVerses.
So I read parts of this online interview when it came out w/ Sam Rami and Rob Tapert last month but somehow I missed the last part:
Someone asked you earlier what you saw in Bridget, so I'd like to ask what you saw in Craig Horner that made you think he could be an action hero?
Rob Tapert: We saw Craig on tape and we absolutely thought he was the guy, instantly. He had a quality, he was likeable, he was handsome. Then, in the world of television, we actually couldn't get him. We couldn't get a deal with him. It was just one of those things, for whatever reason, that we couldn't get a deal closed, so we went to the studio with other actors and they said they didn't see what they saw in him. We said he was down in Australia and we couldn't close this deal and they came back and said yes, he's the guy. They closed his deal and got him on a plane. We saw him and instantly fell in love with him and he's a wonderful actor to work with and he never took off his shirt the entire time we were doing that. We got on set and it was like, 'Oh my God.' He's quite ripped. He's a lovely individual. We brought him to Los Angeles, we got him in the room with Bridget and had a chemistry reading and we said that's our pairing.
Sam Raimi: He's a very good actor. He can make scenes very believable. He's older than the character he plays and he makes you believe he's only 18 years old, 19 years old. That's good. I believe he's somebody who I'm going to enjoy watching grow, because a character really matures throughout the course of these books. He is a boy who becomes a leader and a fighter for what's just and the equivalent of the only thing that can save the land. Everything comes upon his shoulders and I think he's got enough good qualities in him, in real life, and he will probably make the audience believe that he's taking that ride towards making a responsible person and that growth of character that's so important for me in the stories of Terry Goodkind.
[Source - MovieWeb]
LOL Rob and Sam have man crushes on Craig...who can blame them?
My Birthday is this weekend I want a present like that where it's beautiful on the outside then rip remove the wrapping and there's something that's utterly gloriously HOT lurking underneath. *Sigh* At least I'll have a new ep of LEGEND that will air on my Birthday - that and 24 Redemption....hot heroes everywhere!
Capping the scene above last night - was VERY distracting...I like that shirt of Richard's...BUTTONS ARE EVIL - BE GONE WITH THEM!