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Lou Ferrigno Talks Bodybuilding, Hulk, and Arnold Schwarzenegger | GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025 Q&A
May 26, 2025
Lou Ferrigno—bodybuilding icon and star of The Incredible Hulk—took the stage at GalaxyCon Oklahoma City 2025 for a Q&A panel covering highlights from his legendary career.
From his time as the Hulk to stories about training and competing in bodybuilding alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ferrigno engaged with fans and reflected on decades in fitness and entertainment.
📍 Recorded live at GalaxyCon OKC 2025
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[Music] and uh we're delighted to welcome to the stage Lou [Applause]
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Faringo good morning everybody i want I want to ask you Lou
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something you played Luca Brzi Lenny Montana recently in The Offer um which
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is really interesting because of course Luca Bratzy is a famous iconic character
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from The Godfather less well known to some people he was played by one of
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Columbbo's monsters can you talk a little bit about getting that role and
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maybe sort of any research you did and um and Al Ruddy of course the great
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Aluddy well it was funny back in 1970 I think 69 i remember a bunch of friends
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of mine they were having a conversation talking about the Godfather i said "The Godfather never
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forget the conversation they were talking about Brando and Lucy Brassie." So it was funny fast forward many years
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later so they told me that they would be playing Lucy Brassie i said "Of course it was interesting that he was a
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hitman." I think he married his own mother the guy was Ruth but he was very indebted to Columbbo so they honor the
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plays apart because most people don't realize how the Godfather was made all the threat the
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studio the fraud was and stuff but you see the series you understand that it
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wasn't a piece of cake to go on to get made basically a difficult film because they had to deal with it with the negativity with the mafia Satra but they
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finally got the movie made one of the greatest films of all time Franc got hired so I I was decided to play grassy
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because I didn't watch it when I was kid never forget trying to memorize his line
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i said "Man this is a big guy tremendous guy i wouldn't want to mess with him." So here I am lucy University
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was that something that came to you for an offer or ironically was it an offer
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where they cast you or was it something you had to audition for well I auditioned for it because they contacted me because today when you do an audition
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you can do another computer but I put a black suit white black tie and then just in front of the computer and and just
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read the line to auditions for it my manager talked me into it i said was depressing because you know Paramount
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Studio but then I heard about the script i said I I have to win this audition no
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funny to my home and three and a half hours away from LA that's the beauty about it they they hire me on the spot
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because uh that camera is very close to me and that's uh well presumably you
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have murdered everybody but it was very close to me otherwise thank you
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not yet um you wouldn't like it when he um but uh so you have a very well
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doumented early career obviously unlike a lot of people because of course
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pumping iron shows you you know uh can you talk a little bit about you know
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some people have yearbooks some people you know have uh you know slideshows you have a whole movie about what that time
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in your life was like when you look back at it now what is your feeling what is
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it how do you feel about that and just the fact that you've sort of shared that with the whole world you talk about the
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docu drama pumping iron okay what happened though this I was about maybe um 20 21 22 they came out with a book
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called pumping iron with the best seller you got to remember back then when people saw bodybuilder people were
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considered like freak because the general public didn't know what bodybuilder was especially like me
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sports and ner the way we look was very could be very intimidating so I remember
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Charles G and George B came to me and they said we want to make this movie called popping from the book and we want
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to show the relationship like me being there the quiet guy the kid next door
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with the arch rival so it was a beautiful chemistry because back then everybody has different
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personality but the be the interesting thing is at the time of competition first choice was $1,000 that was my meal
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intake for like three or four week but today first choice is uh is almost
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close to a million bucks but I remember at the time I was competing with all we were just sitting there looking at each other and here's a man from Austria i'm
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from New York i was dealing with the speech issue the hearing issue and we were hoping to go somewhere get some
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recognition so when the movie came out it basically opened the door to a lot of people it educated the public what
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bodybuilding really is it's a very difficult sport you get in shape the heavy training but even still today when
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you watch people watching you get motivated you want to go to the gym because you're talking about 50 years
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ago were you surprised how much that movie caught on
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and how popular it was at the time and obviously led to a career in entertainment i mean at the time you
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were pursuing a career in bodybuilding but you didn't know this would lead to entertainment was that a did that
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transition catch you by surprise did you know what public in the post production stage they went bankrupt
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if you see the making of the film one night at the Whit in New York City they
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had armed with all the bodybuilders to get told to raise money to finance because they went bankrupt but they
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finished the film but was interesting that at the time I did it I want to have a career as a bodybuilder because I went
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to university twice but but the beauty about public that when I moved to California to train for the 1977 Mr
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olympia competition I received a phone call to audition for the Hulk they wanted to replace an actor named Richard
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Kio mr kio played the original Hulk who stepped into he didn't fit the part so from puppy client they realized that
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they're going to move for Victor because he f the hole but one thing led to another richard Ke was very tall and
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lanky but he wasn't a big guy um so what was it like when you met Ken Johnson and
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and what did he tell you because obviously back then in
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77 the perception people had of comic books was like well they'd seen Batman on the TV show they thought it was all
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pulpy and campy and Ken Johnson wanted the show to be about something but he
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wants you to be a big green monster week after week what was that your your reaction did you jump at the opportunity
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did you have concerns well when they they I heard about the audition they called me i went down for
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the audition and they said "We're going to paint green." I said to myself "They're not paying to be green i want
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to get paint i want to go for the audition." So they talked me into it i'll never forget when I saw Ken Johnson
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Bill B together they were under a lot of stress because they they were talking about shelving the pilot because they
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had to reshoot the entire pilot again but I remember that time of the audition I showed you the different move the
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animistic uh behavior of the hoe drive me home the phone rang ken said "You
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better come back to the studio come over the hill." I went back down he takes me to a motor home he said "Could you show
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emotions could you show me can you cry this and that stuff?" I never acted in my life so I'm sitting at the other side
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of the bed trying to pretend I'm the Hulk and then finally he took me upstairs to be the executive then they
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gave me the green light to film so the next day I got into the makeup i was filming like 14 to 16 hours a day to
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finish the title the first scene I did was turn it over the car remember the very beginning scene okay that was 4:00
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in the morning i mean I didn't know anything about acting about makeup about stage light about script anything i just
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thrown in there it was It was horrific but it was great because when they
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finished the first time with the makeup I looked in the mirror i said "What am I doing my competition is five weeks
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away." And I'm looking at this monster in the mirror at the at the time Spider-Man and Captain America failed as
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a TV series so I said did the chance have to take so I gave up training for the M Olympia to focus more on the pilot
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it was a big huge gamble but now if you look at 50 years later 47 years later we
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had the Marvel universe but thank the Hulk the original pilot what was the moment that you realized that you were a
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part of something special i mean or did that even occur to you was it just a was it just a gig well I realized when I was
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filming they told me all the villains like Frankenstein Dragon of the Wolf Man they would love my people so that gave
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me confidence realized that what made the Hulk interesting with the Dr jeff was a high fashion i feel all the ego
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that I realized that the wonderful chemistry caught on especially when it came out every single country in the
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world embrace the character can I can I jump back to pumping iron just this once
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because I think that the the dynamic between you and Arnold specifically is
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very interesting to watch because if you haven't seen it find it watch it it's
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brilliant because you can see Arnold putting up a big front you know he's he's posturing a lot and he's trying to
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psych everyone else out and he particularly picks on you a lot because
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he you know calls calls you Big Louie and and he tries to he tries to put you
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down a bit but you realize that's because he's nervous about you and he's
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threatened by you and it's a very interesting dynamic that is so much fun
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to watch well that would help to get the movie uh to receive a lot of attention because if you had that conflict it
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would be about barbell dumbbell working out squatting and you got to watch that kind of film to say not for me but the
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story line the human the love among the the combines the characters that you
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know that to today like my good friend but back then you know he would do anything he can to win he's trying to
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play the metal pitch i mean I wasn't in my best shape for the competition because I was training for the superstars but because of the filming I
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figured that you know be a great advantage for myself but the whole time that that's why he's a Terminator that's
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who he is and he he told you to win you know when you want to win a competition
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you have to do have to do especially it's not like uh you're playing back basketball or tennis it's a solo sport
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right so it's diff it's a different scenario to create the environment for
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winning for yourself exactly and you would you were uniquely positioned to
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deal with sort of I would I don't know if abuse is the right word because you had dealt growing up in Brooklyn with a
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lot of issues with bullying because of the your your hearing issues at the time
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um did you feel that that gave you a strength not just a physical strength but an emotional strength which really
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helped you in the competitions well close the birth I lost like 85% of my hearing that affected my speech i tried
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to convince people that I didn't have a hearing problem but a speech problem because people put me down they used to
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call me deaf little de so I realized I got to the point that I had a very
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severe love and hate relationship with my father because when I was born I'm not the perfect son rejection so I
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didn't want to have his paint pain anymore so basically I said to myself I have to fight twice as hard than the
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average person to succeed so something got into me i that's why I to read the
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whole comic book of my Superman comic to escape my imagination the pain I was on was a rejection i was told you can't you
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can't you don't have a game you can never be a police officer you can't do this you're not bright enough i mean set
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so when I read the comics I got very obsessed with power you see kids say
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it's all about power that led me to bodybuilding fitness but thank God gave me the wonderful genetics to be aware
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bodybuilding champion but that passion to me gave me that drive i knew was an antidote for my pain i said to myself
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it's such a good feeling i said even though all the naysayers said to me why you working out you're never going to
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make money as a body you're never going to be in the magazine or you talk about barbell dumbbells looking at men naked
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men with ping trunk oil up look in the mirror i didn't care because at that eventually I go around eating like a
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body like eating different kind of food especially growing up in Italian neighborhood i mean water eggs salad
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just with a little olive oil and vinegar everybody else eating pasta so that but that evolution just
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went on and then what I now it's all about passion that's why every one of you if you have a passion embrace it
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because that that's what makes you powerful it doesn't matter if you're a businessman you want to sell shoes i
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mean electronic equipment something that you're passionate about that's the most powerful thing to have and especially
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I've learned to compete with myself when you compete with others you lose you
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want to maximize be the best you can within your own capacity with yourself that's what makes life better so let's
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talk about the being in a solo sport aspect of it because when you're in a solo sport obviously there are people
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who train alongside you you don't train as a team but it's really about you and
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your willpower and every day getting up and doing something new and different to advance your personal goal in your sport
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but there have to be days when your body says "I really don't want to." And you
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have to find a way to convince your body to summon that will to do the thing that
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you need to do like how did you contend with those days how did you get past those moments or did you not have those
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moments when your body said maybe not today well I would just sit for example
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lay back and say to myself when I go on stage to compete if not if I'm not 100% at my
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best is my fault so I would get up and say to myself I'm tired i go do what I
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have to do to train no matter why because that's what it takes to be a world champion like if you take Michael
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Jordan every time he played practice game he played just as hard when he played in a competitive game the same
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thing and the beauty about a starter sport you got to remember one thing you take Tiger Woods that man's hitting a
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golf ball in front of the whole world it's all about isolating yourself i mean you got eyes on him everyone making
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billions of people it's only him hitting the golf ball because he has to isolate himself and block everything out that's
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why I start a sport that's what it take i mean especially when you're not a team sport but mostly so sport like bodybuild
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on stage you got to be tan you got to be uh the best condition of your life day the competition you got to have a
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coaching routine you got to have the right music I mean any flaws you have you lose points that's why many times I
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would say to myself if I feel a little lazy I would say to myself it's only me you have to take action nobody else
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going to pat you on the back and say listen you can get you can get a support group but only you can make that move
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only you can make that decision To be a world champion you have to love pain to be a world champion i don't mean
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physical pain i mean the pain I mean that doesn't come easy in life like if you want to be a great actor good actor
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you have to study and work your ass that's what it takes that's what my story can you tell us uh during the
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production of the Hulk uh and the day that Mr rogers came to
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visit uh because that is one of the most memorable episodes that he did lifting
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the veil off the magic of the Hulk and taking some of the fear away from kids
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how was that for you well I used to watch the show when I was young when he came to the stand I was the Bill said to
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me Rogers coming i said "Are you kidding me?" When he when he came down of course he wears his sweaters and he talked in a
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very soft tone he was a wonderful uh mentor when he came to the motor home just being him in the motor home I mean
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I was like ecstatic i was think this is fantastic because I remember watching him on TV by myself you know with these
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all these different handicaps myself and wish I could be someone and suddenly you fast forward 10 years later he's with me
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in my motor home it's a beautiful moment especially that he captured the personality of the creature side of the
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home not the menacing side yeah and it's it's strange how he is exactly the same
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in person as he was on television yes there was no difference and it's just so
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seeing that with you and he in the motor home is so magical and it it brings a
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tear to my eye thank you you you mentioned earlier that they had a lot riding on the Hulk um that the show
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could have easily been the pilot could have been ca cancelled or never aired
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because unless they found the right guy to play the Hulk and um Bill Bixby and Kenneth Johnson that there was so much
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writing on you um and you pull it off and it's it's remarkable because of course when we think of the Hulk people
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think of you um and uh I wonder if you can talk a little about the experience
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of working on that show over the course of several years of course your friendship with Bill Bixby who was such
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a wonderful man who died way too young and uh even though you didn't share many scenes together for obvious reasons you
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worked together and he was a really terrific um mentor as well as you know as an actor well you know it's funny
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when I film the Hulk it's not just the makeup i had to contact them that people dig i had to do 100% on my own stunts
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going through window walls and everything being retouched it's probably one of the most difficult things I've
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done but Bill gave me all the confidence because when I came on the set Bill did different TV series like with Ed my
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favorite magician so he's one of my favorite actors i remember I was on the set i watch him i study him because he
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said to me one time I never forget the day you came on the set the first day you were looking at all the walls of the
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studio the big uh uh uh camera truck driving by like a little kid another
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world and he took me under his wing because Bill was a wonderful acting director so he's almost like a second
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father to me because when you film a TV series you spend more time on a series than your spouse your wife and like
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sometimes 60 hours a week so I learned so much from him because he told me what
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what it's like to be a professional be on time beyond this million line because so many actors today they get lazy and
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that you they they appreciate respect their craft like the way Bill and I did
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and back then of course shooting with film there's not usually multiple cameras back then it's one camera
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shooting on film which you said about not having a stunt double how do you find a stunt double
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for impossible so um that the amount of time and work that you put into that and
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creating a character i mean that's why I think when they did the later Hulks and you have a cameo in all those films I
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mean it's because there's so much reference for what you created that you know you didn't need CGI you just needed
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Luffer you know it's funny when I made the comic when I was young always the lefth hand corner said written by Stan
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Lee now I read all comics before I discovered muscle magazine Body Boy so I
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had tons and tons of magazine i remember one day they said to me Stanley's on the set i said "Stan please." And you know I
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coach him i remember when I first met him I was really taken back and I said to him "Well if you I wouldn't be here."
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But he had a kind of a funny voice i go "Why don't you work out sometime what you walk with?"
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And then eventually you end up having a couple cameos on my series like for example one of my favorite
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shows the Hulk where Bill of the jewelry and the lawyers you know don't get me
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started with lawyers the lawyer staying pounding on him pounding on him and suddenly you see him become the hulk and
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he grabs the lawyer like it's great because every all our demons our anger
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is brought out to see doctor lawyer your name but it's fun excelsia exactly
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and of course you leverage the success of the whole playing other you know sort of iconic characters look Hercules was a
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movie you did I think it was in 83 for the infamous Golden Globus shot I think in Europe um can you tell us anything
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about the crazy Golden Globus and you know what that experience was like for you it was a lot of fun for me because
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immediately after the Hollywood cancelled they offered me Hercules i've always wanted to play Hercules because I followed the original Hercules TV we had
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a chance to film Italy the catacomb but I I was so excited because the character
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was not green and they can see my definition better on
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the screen because on the hope with the paint it will hide my definition so it it I enjoyed that film and and I've done
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the Magnificent Gladiator Sinbad it was fun gave me a chance to get into the
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into the feature film the TV series to reach out franchise and and then also
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you know the Hulk was still a part of your life in addition to the other TV movies they did you were often asked
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early on with the Marvel to do the efforts the distinctive growls and animalistic sounds the Hulk made and
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then um you know you returned for these two cameos as well in the Hulk movies can you talk a little bit about you know
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sort of being the then elder statesman of Alum well I eventually did the divorce and
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everything then the animated cartoon and then eventually I did a divorce for the
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movie itself and then also the Walkman family then I end up doing adventure time because I've always wanted to do
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the voice of the Hul the series but I think you know being young not deep enough but now I know how the Hulk
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things can feel but I don't know if you know if you ever do a voice it's very difficult because you're by yourself
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it's not like doing the scene only you it's a solo squirt
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there you go i like that word um and you know you may have sworn to
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never go green again but yet somehow you got talked into doing a green Orion
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slave master in one of the Star Trek fan films can you tell us how that happened
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and how you got convinced to hit the green paint again well what's interesting I was a huge fan of the
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original Star Trek theory of course William Shannon and Captain Kirk one of my favorite characters that show me two
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years but the Orion base they were green right so there was
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this friend of mine I went to his name was Big Mac he had an online TV series
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Star Trek continue he came to me he said "There's a wonderful character you can play called Samaha." I said "Really?"
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Because of that he's dead when I paint green i said "Here we go again." I flew I fly
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to Florida he had a set on the on the floor i remember I went through the whole makeup process i had five little
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fan blown on me because humidity I went trying not to sweat without a ball cap
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but what I love about the character this slave uh trade up he's rich in animals
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ferocious but I had a chance to play that character to show the evil side it was fun because even now that's why Star
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Trek all these years became such a huge phenomenon but I never forget the original mysterious go i used to watch
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William Shatter it's great that William Shadow is still here with us in 94 autograph i mean think about it back
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then you know when he said Star Trek he's living out of the car yeah okay
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incredible a long way but he showed uh this was at the time before Star Wars
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at the time the first science fiction space and um so you know you've you've
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played all these different characters but it seems in the last couple years one of the most popular characters
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you've played as yourself you keep recurring as Lu Farigno in various capacities can you tell us a little bit
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about getting pigeon holed as Luke Ferringo in the movies and TV well I did a movie run in Dangerfield and
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Douise so one night the producer from King and Queen were watching the show they said "Why not bring Lou as a show
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as a guest?" And they gave me the script and play yourself i said fine but in real life people say they make Hulk
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jokes they call me the Hulk you know I could do five G movies now i still be known as the Hulk
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so they incorporated that into the series and it's wonderful because the people see it like everyday life i could
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do the same thing every day it's nice but the thing about King and Queen in front of a live audience you know when
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you do comedy it's very difficult because you can't barely be funny you have to adapt to the character and the
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audience knows that you only have one or two takes with the actors I wor with it was so privileged like Kevin James Lee
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Remedy I mean Jerry Stiller it was a wonderful experience because I was on the show with the name but then it
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became a recurring role but then after that became the movie I love you man it's the same thing they're trying to
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steal my house I hate the guy that say guy you see in the movie I put him in
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char but but we go through that everyday life that's why about imperfection
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and one of the things you you you did for a long time too was as a personal trainer to many celebrities um including
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Michael Jackson can you tell us a little bit about that maybe some of the more interesting experiences you've had as a
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trainer well Michael can't train in the jar and Michael can't drive a car can
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you imagine having an accident with Michael Jackson i'm really sorry i know anyway the doctor called me Dr
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steve Hoffman super nice guy plastic surgeon he said Michael needs training
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uh to get over his uh you know stretching stack and that stuff so he
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bring Michael to my house i remember Michael I I admire his passion for music he my passion for physical fitness we
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became good friends because Michael feels safe with me but he would come to me 10:00 at night one night he came to
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me he had gloves on he had a maxi and a hat 10:00 at night because of my gym back in my house he said I said what the
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max he said "I want people to stare at me." I said "Michael my dog would even know you're here it's 10:00 at night
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there's not a person on the street." But but it it was great because
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we were very very close i trained on and off for years but you know it's amazing i trained Mickey Chuck Norris i trained
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so many different celebrities it's nice because you get to see the other side of the person what they really like it's
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interesting especially they come to me they know they have to produce results because I don't train people and to take
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the money i demand results so they wouldn't like you when you're angry
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exactly you know you know what's great about training when you work out you can't
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take your anger out of the waist to bother with the dumbbells they're going to hit you back so if I have a client
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I'm training and they're being mean towards me taking their frustration I just they increase the weight 10 more
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eight seven six come on four more
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that's great well I know you guys have some questions so if you want to line up by the microphone over here um we'd love
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to hear what you you have to ask don't be shy
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really don't be shy look he's really nice you don't need to be scared
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hello how are you good can you Okay you can hear me uh so I have read somewhere
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when you first started deciding you wanted to get stronger you used a broomstick and a couple of buckets of
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cement is that true yes wow i did get different I get different pill i used to
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fill some sometimes the pair one/3 one half i made different barbell and I put
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the boom stick in the middle but the hardest thing for me when I used to do pair with the broom with the broomstick
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sometimes the pair would spin and then it would fall off the stick trying to keep the balance because I can afford
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weight it just shows you how bad you want to have barbells and dumbbells that's when I improvise that's awesome
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thank you thank you you know there's a woman here uh she's a huge fan of mine she's my future wife i want you to say
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hello to her she's one of my biggest fan she loves the Hulk her family finds out it's so exciting lisa is there
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[Applause] yeah we can share a lot of different stories about the home and she had uh
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she liked everything she seen about the hope she collected so Lisa is Lou as nice offstage as he is
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on stage she's nice man everywhere i'll pay you later
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yes sir i was just going to ask you if you were still friends with Shatner in real life and also swords oh yeah i see
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shack from time to time and honor I played a chess with him about eight months ago i went to his house because
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you know we reminisce of that whole time and especially I think you know 20 what
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to accomplish what I've done like now we look back our careers where we came from we had nothing when you grow over the
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years like we become competitive different sports different challenges like be 73 you talk about the
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accomplishment and you appreciate how much you've done for life for the world and everything but it's fun but sh is
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another one especially his age now 94 go space he come down he's still signing
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autograph i mean I heard when he went to space the next day he was signing autographs again i mean I mean think
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about this that's incredible especially that when he started they they have
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comic cons they have like convention but like comic book convention now what you have you call comic con that's pop
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culture you bring family bring kids those days you have your comic convention like for example you take Adam West the original Batman he would
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go on stage as Batman and and and very poorly because Broadway was still autographed because those days they were
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desperate to make money but now because there's a pop culture through convention you can actually enjoy make a good
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living and interact with the fans because especially you're talking about decades of fan base it's amazing
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thank you sir you're welcome
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hello um so I know the Hulk show was you
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know kind of before my time not not just I want to be rude about that but when
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you were asked to do like the voice over for the MCU um the Hawk I know you did a
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cameo prior to that but what kind of got you I I know there
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wasn't much but did you ever feel overwhelmed because you knew the Avengers was like a huge part of pop
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culture at the time and how did you kind of get into character and kind of balance yourself out for that role
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you mean uh Okay uh you mean you mean adapting to the role correct yeah just
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without huge it was going to be unless you didn't know how huge it was going to be and if you felt overwhelmed well the
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thing at the beginning you got to remember as an actor you have to be attracted to the character that's important because it's not just putting
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the makeup on i just want to make a different sound because I have to show a lot of feeling like pan mind without
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speaking but then I was so overwhelmed because I had no idea what it would want
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because in those days uh like today you have all these fine action plan the adventure in endgame like Anthony the
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finest actor in the world but the whole change because over the years what kept the whole life my physicality too
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traveling promotion especially with these different countries I mean still even today it's overwhelming especially
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like almost 50 years later that just more popular than ever especially the whole genre
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you're welcome and it's interesting you talked about um
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with Arnold that you have such a great relationship now it's because you also shared something that most people can't
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relate you went through this shared experience that only you guys can really understand what it was like at that time
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to live that life so um well you know it's funny father was a captain of the
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police department my father was a lieutenant we have both had straight up training that's why 20
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years ago I was talking to sheriff in LA i said I'd love to be a police officer he said why don't you go through the academy because I want to be the
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honorary i went through the academy the shooting the driving i became a certified deputy sheriff but it's funny
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how when you were young you had this different dream and sometimes people have dream and they just and they just
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just to think about my life for example any dream I had I go after it because it
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because that's what I wanted to be so it's interesting that I personally
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became a police officer because my father said I can never amount to anything there was it was almost like screw you i'm a police officer now
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you're a cop and I became a sheriff
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what did you think when they told you you were going to fight a bear when you were going to fight the bear in
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the TV series what do you think when you That that was a nightmare because the
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bear could get green makeup on his face you had to throw the woman we had to shoot the scene over and over because uh
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it was a it was a train bear like like a baby bear 600 lb but because of the makeup you know so that poor be wiping
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his face every day taking the makeup off it be that water for maybe like 8 to 10 hours the wig would fall off i look like
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a ball coat jacket i mean on and on the bear didn't
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have a stunt double no unfortunately no but I'll tell you one thing it's almost
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like with a wall that was like 7 feet tall weigh 600 700 lb it was a train
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fair i mean they say train but still I was a little nervous because I mean once
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one movement of the author could rip into pieces the only character on the series that
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was bigger than you
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hi this might kind of be a dumb question but I was just wondering what kind of music did you listen to like in the gym
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you know I really never listen to music because of my hearing situation because when I was young I go to a gym I
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couldn't wear hearing could not wear hearing aids because hearing aids today they're waterproof in those days if I
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had any preparation I couldn't hear so I would go to the gym i would be in a
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silent world that's why it gave me incredible focus to train work out now if I go to gym now like for example if I
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train home to Lisa she put all kinds of music on right you know you know upbeat
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music it's nice i can listen to it but it's hard for me to differentiate the words because of my hearing situation
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but I love music but in those days when I train the gym I did wear I did wearing a book but I remember sometime I see
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people in the gym listen to music music beautiful but for me I made the decision to use my own mental capacity to
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entertain myself so you can you can sort of say that your
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hearing loss was a benefit to you to help you focus on your goals if I didn't
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have this hearing problem I would be who I am today because I took negative to positive i took the high road because
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because I use other qualities of myself like for example sometimes you lose something you gain something i have a
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greater sense of smell greater sense of intuition about people everybody has a
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different view so you should have played Daredevil daredevil was in one of the movies
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lou I wanted to let you know it's a pleasure to actually get the chance to talk to you i was three when The
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Incredible Volcano and I watched it that was one of the shows my parents let me watch i
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really enjoyed that show you know I'm I'm a kid who grew up with Star Wars star Trek wasn't available in my area
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till I was about 13 so I didn't have a chance to watch it um become a big fan
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of that obviously uh so when I was watching Star Trek continues I was watching it when I came out and when you
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first showed up in there I thought who is this guy i have no idea who he is they're showing an impressive entrance
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for him had no idea who you were till you spoke and I was like that's Lagna
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i'm I'm amazed i was so ecstatic to see you being episode Star Trek they already
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asked the questions I was going to ask but I'll ask you an additional break um a couple years ago we got to go to uh
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Kingsland Georgia where they had the set for Star Trek Continues um and they they
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had a fan event and apparently the actors who were involved uh would show up there got to meet Vic then um they
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relocated that would you have you ever done any of the fan events for the Star Continue sets or No would you do them in
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the future possibly for sure by the way Star Trekont.com is online for free the name
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of the show I did called um episode two Bani Bani yes check it out because you
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first see you don't know it was me because uh you know you see the character is interesting but but
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basically you had a goatee you had knees hanging off the goatee and off ears skull cap and everything i played my
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father um yeah we are going to catch up with
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you and get an autograph later i actually that's what I brought for you to autograph is the Blu-ray copies I've
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got of yep thank you so much well thank you Lou you've been a huge part of my life i want you to know I appreciate it
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thank you appreciate it thank you i've been a huge fan ever since I was a
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little kid and actually met you once before this is a a picture from the late 80s we were at Disney World and you were
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signing an autograph for me right here wow can attest to your kindness you were eating dinner and we waited for you
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outside the hotel and you took the time to sign autographs for me and my family so then you pounced
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[Applause] i think I think he was a little intimidated you know by my size i no
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doubt wow that's a great story thank you
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thank you so other than the bear that you had to fight which sounds fairly
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scary you know they made you do all of your own stunts were there any other moments where you're like "Oh clearly
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obviously I'm going to die today." Yeah yeah there's one episode I did when I
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had to face the
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bal fight yeah okay okay they brought all to the st it's a truth the boat
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broke now I was standing you You see this wall thing they believe it or not
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right they had a wall behind me where they keep all the cattle everything the wall had to be maybe about this high
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right so they had the two uh cowboys on two horses with rope the bind leg so the
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boat kind of laying down and you could tell those seen as they actually walk up
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as the Hulk and grab the horn trying pretending I'm holding the bolt down so
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on this they gave me the to go ahead so I'm walking close to the B completely
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drug completely and the two guys they think were holding the ball tight so I'm walking towards the wall suddenly when I
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went to grab the horn his eyes open and I and he started to almost l
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towards me still today I don't know how I went over that
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wall over the wall i remember cuz it turned out that terrifying but let me tell you this it's
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a good thing I made the movement because that ball went forward 6 ft he literally dragged both horses sure i could have
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been killed yes were you ever injured on set no that's
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amazing i've been injured off doing stupid things as opposed to really
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smart thing like pissing off a bull yeah well you get the last question i I
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remember watching when I was a kid in the 80s it was great was there ever
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um what what do you looking back on this show uh I know you did all your own stunts was there one that you just like
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absolutely it was like your absolute favorite stunt to do you know be besides the show showing the laser component
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match there was one show there was a father using his son he beat his son
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physically and you can see the hulk where he think he's doing the same thing to Bill Bing then you see in the
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gymnasium Bill becomes the Hulk and you can see the Hulk actually throwing the father against the wall the father
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trying to hit the Hulk and the Hulk was just basically just pushing push him to the fence father broke down and realized
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that he was having problem with his father but he he apologized to his son that's one of my favorite shows because
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the shows you about bullying him and you know you go left with the pip can't bull the hole
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thank you very much well we're so grateful he'll be at his booth answering questions signing autographs here all
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weekend so um we thank you for being with us and I know that you have an announcement i I do so uh it's a Galaxy
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Con tradition that no one gets out a lot no no no that's not the tradition tradition is everybody comes forward and
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we do a group selfie with Lou so you just come up to the stage and he's going to pose with you guys and uh you know
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don't leave or you'll make him angry thank you so much Lou it was great
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