Sound Bite: Kevin Sorbo
That’s just the thing, whenever you have a conspiracy theory you can’t prove it or disprove it, so there’s really an open book with this. You can say and do whatever you want. Technology maybe they’re like the Japan of governments where they come up with things you know, because we know in Japan there’s stuff we haven’t got here yet like technological-wise, that there’s waiting every 6 months the cycle to make more money off of us and that’s sort of what they have, you know there’s the thing about reptilian skin where the bullets will bounce off and um there’s uh but they’re all trained from the most extraordinary martial arts, weapons, everything so it’s gonna be heavy action but it’s also gonna be sci-fi element and a dramatic episode, I mean element so you can’t really say that it’s just sci-fi, there’s sort of a mixture of everything.

Sound Bite: Kevin Sorbo
Well I don’t perse, and doing that kind of stuff for the web before I’m still like pretty green with the web. I know how to get on, that’s about it, but they do want to tease um uh we are going to start putting little, we’re gonna shoot some little bits of other things that are gonna lead up to, that won’t even be in the movie itself but will show people that this is something cool and will be ready for and we just had Lance Hendrickson has joined the cast, CW Howell has joined the cast, so it’s gonna be interesting to see what happens here.

Sound Bite: Kevin Sorbo
It’s called A World Fit For Kids. I joined in 96. Hercules was entering its 4th year then and I was getting inundated with a lot of people asking for charitable help whether it was pediatric AIDS, you know all great things and important things but I felt so many people were already involved in that, I wanted to get involved with a charity that was, kids were basically healthy but living in an unhealthy environment, so I found this company through a friend of a friend called LA Fit for Kids, we started talking, we changed the title to A World Fit for Kids, um uh it’s sort of a double-mentoring program where we trained inner-city teens to become mentors to children within their own community basically saving 2 lives at the same time but we also incorporate you know righting childhood obesity, we have physical fitness, uh anything that they want to be a part of that if they like chess, if they like basketball, if they like dancing, whatever it may be, we make sure they have access to that afterschool hours and I deal with over 12,000 kids in LA county and LA county school district has a 54 percent dropout rate, we have a 100 percent graduation rate for kids in our program, so once again it comes down to money it comes down to you know we have like geez 125 people on the payroll, uh we’re non-profit but certainly people that work in the office work on 80 hour weeks they pay for their work so that is the only place that money goes in terms of paying people so they can sustain a living and still be a part of this program and we just kicked off with a big golf tournament in Vegas about a month ago and we had Frank O’Harris from the Pittsburgh Steelers, we had uh Dr. Jay you know we had um oh my gosh we John Ratzenberger from Cheers and many other things he’s been in. We had Patrick Warburton, we had a lot of actors that showed up to support in it and golf in it. It went really really well. We had a ? with Gary Valentine and we had a music night and we had just a mixture of many different things besides the golf and Planet Hollywood was kind enough to host and we’re doing it again next year.

Sound Bite: Kevin Sorbo
I think you know you come to this town, I didn’t know anybody when I moved out to Los Angeles. I didn’t know a person. I knew I wanted to be an actor as everybody does out in this town. It doesn’t matter where you go, what line of work people are in, they’re all like oh I want to kinda get in the film business and a friend of mine gave me some advice before I came out here and said remember it’s called show business not show show. And I’ve always remembered that. That it is a business and you have to treat it as such. You have to get yourself in the right acting classes, get yourself, don’t be, I go crazy when people stay with the same acting coach for like 20 years or something, you know. Move on, take what you can get from that person, go on and try somebody else. Little pieces here and there, do the local theater around here. I think people still have interest in it. People come out here and they wish there as more theatergoing on and anything pound the pavement, get yourself out there. People think people, their door’s getting knocked on by Steven Spielberg, it doesn’t work that way. My commercial days, I was very fortunate. I did made a good living doing commercials which enabled me not to have to work any jobs which put me in place where I could do the theater, I could do the good acting classes, I could hone the craft and then spend the time pounding the pavement and getting out there and making phone calls and knocking on the doors of casting directors. You gotta play that game, it’s just part of the town. It’s part of the business and part of the way it’s set up and the weird thing is I used to go to acting class I could see who was there basically just to be lazy about it. maybe they’re there trying to get laid, pardon my French, or they’re there because they want to be good at their profession and there is a difference and you just gotta, you gotta focus on what you want and where you want that to be because I remember my um my old commercial agent. I used to bug them all the time. I’d hear about stuff from other guys, say hey how come I’m not in that one, how come I’m not in that one. And they go Kevin, we’ve got other clients. You realize your other clients don’t give a damn about me, I don’t give a damn about them. For me it was give me the opportunity to be rejected. That’s the way I looked at it. Just get me in the door because I’m good in the door. Just get me through the door and uh I think you have to have a belief and I haven’t had a belief since I was 11 years old and I’m gonna make it and knock on wood I’ve been lucky.

Sound Bite: Kevin Sorbo
Well I mean from the coolest thing I’ve ever done within the business happened right away with Hercules. I got to work an entire year with Anthony Quinn. He played Zeus so from a professional point of view, to work with somebody who’s done 270 movies and 6 Academy Award nominations and 2 wins, to be able to spend an entire year, season, it was 9, 10 months we were down together just there in New Zealand, and every week having dinner with the man and you know knock up his brain for anecdotes and stories and you know people he worked with, it was an amazing education for me and also the fact that here was a guy that at the time he was in his late 70s um that still wanted to rehearse, he still had a passion about his craft at this stage in his life when he didn’t have to do anymore he still loved acting. And he would talk about the scenes and break them down like an acting coach would and look at the exposition and says, this is bullshit, we don’t need any of this, and take stuff out and then he really made me listen because he would say, he would go, I’m not gonna say any of this, this is shit. I’m not gonna say this. I’m gonna say maybe this or I know, I’ll say something that makes sense and then you’ll listen to me and think of something, right sweetheart? Now go because I’m still a firm believer in the script. I certainly will fight with writers if things don’t make sense and I find holes and I’ll say please fix the holes, but like the written word that’s in front of me and I respect the writers’ craft so I was just so amazed at what he did and unfortunately I picked up some of his habits. I know I’ve made a few writers mad through the last few years but you know he makes sense, he makes sense, so that was probably one of the probably one of the coolest things that’s happened to me.