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 Steven Strait
Interview By: Dan Deevy
“You haven’t lived until you've lived in loin cloth man, it’s very liberating. Incredibly freeing!”
A greater endorsement for the virtues of the loin cloth, I do not need. He’s a good man and I trust him, so thanks to a lesser known corner of amazon.com mine is now on order.
I first met Steven Strait over three years ago and I knew then that he was going to be a huge star. The combination of his good looks, undeniable charm and affability mixed with an incredibly solid work ethic and true acting talent make him a force to be reckoned with in the world of young Hollywood. And to top it all off, none of this has gone to his head which is truly the most unique thing about him.
At the amazingly young age of only 21, Steven has already acted in many different genres of film beginning in the family superhero film, Sky High with Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston, followed by his musical turn in Undiscovered with Ashlee Simpson and Kip Pardue where he not only played the romantic lead, but also did the soundtrack for the film and then finally the ab-tastic supernatural thriller The Covenant where he played the leader of a fraternity like group of gorgeous guys with mystical powers.
It was only a matter of time before he’d be starring in a big budget action adventure film, and that opportunity came with Roland Emmerich’s 10,000 BC. Far from a cake walk though, the film demanded a lot of the young star beginning first with transforming him from the muscled Covenant star into the fast, lean warrior hunter, D’Leh. For most, this would have been near impossible, but Strait’s background afforded him a little bit of an advantage.
“I grew up doing martial arts,’ he begins, “and I boxed for many years too so dropping weight and gaining weight was something I was pretty familiar with. I lost about 30 – 40 pounds in about a month and a half before boot camp. I had just done a film [The Covenant] where I had to put on a bunch of weight to do the wire work and I had to lose all of it. So basically they had me on this dietary program that was limited enough that it would get the maximum amount off, but also not be completely and utterly detrimental to my health,” he jokes. “I was eating rice and celery and just running; run and run and run. Then we did the boot camp to bring everyone together. But to be perfectly honest with you, some of the shooting in the film was way harder than any prep we had done.”
In addition to getting his body in shape for the role, Strait also had to go through hours of prep time each day before filming even began. “It was ...
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