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 “I never really appreciated how much I love bathing so much until after this movie,” he laughs. So what was it that compelled Steven to go through this arduous physical challenge that spanned the globe? “Roland first and foremost,’ he admits. “I’m of the generation that grew up with his films. I saw Stargate when I was nine years old and have been a huge fan since. And also the fact that I read the script and I thought it was incredibly original. I think stuff of this size these days is based on a comic book or it’s a sequel or a prequel; not that that’s bad I love those films too, but the originality of this I really liked a lot. And essentially, it’s a love story with all this action and adventure around it and I just found that incredibly unique.” Becoming a prehistoric war hero sounds like an incredible machismo enducing ego boost, but the CGI’d nature of the creatures he came up against left Strait feeling a little exposed at first. “Initially you feel a little silly,’ he admits, “I’m not going to lie. You’re out there in the middle of the desert and you’re poking and proding at the air in front of like 300 people, but obviously Roland has done films like this before, and you just let your imagination go because there’s no constraints on what you’re acting with; it’s all your imagination so once you get into the motion of it it’s actually kind of fun.” Although Roland has worked with CGI’d creatures and environments before, 10,000 BC charted some new territory even for him. “I think for the first time in this film, we shot most of it on locations, so there wasn’t all that much blue screen; they just plugged them in in post which was incredible,” he says. “When we were shooting the mammoth sequence, for example, there was nothing there. No blue screens, nothing to react off of. They basically said, ‘you react off of what you’re imagining and we’ll just work around you,’ and that was liberating in a very strange way,” he chuckles. So after the experience of playing mountain warrior who slays pretend prehistoric beasts is there anything left in the world that can embarrass this guy? “No,’ he guffaws, “Nothing. You have to get over that initial phase because you’re in very little cloths, it’s freezing outside and you’re poking at nothing while screaming and yelling, but you have to have a sense of humor about it just to have fun with it. You also have to take it in perspective. It’s like, how many times in your life are you going to be at ... |
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