Avatar star Sam Worthington recommends RALPH as essential dunny reading.
You appear as a huge blue alien in 3D flick Avatar. Do you actually believe in extraterrestrials?
Yes. I can't be ignorant and arrogant enough to believe we're the only things in the whole universe.
Would you be up for a porn spin-off called Blue Balls?
I like the idea. That could be about the adventures of [Sam’s wheelchair-bound character] Jake Sully, who hasn’t had a bit in a while. My belief about how
he came to be in the wheelchair was that he was a military guy in Venezuela who was shot while he was getting a bit. So he’s always standing to attention. He actually gets more poon when he's in the wheelchair than before. Jim [Cameron, director] would say, "That's not true. That didn't happen." And I'd go, "Nah, mate. He's full mast all the time."
You used to show up to acting gigs hungover. Have things changed since you got to Hollywood?
I used to think it would help my acting. In my 20s, I’d rock up hungover, and since it hurts to bull----, my acting was always true. I’ve found that if you try that when you’re in your 30s, you can’t function at all. If I’m being chased through the desert by a giant scorpion and having it come out of my pores, it's too much hard work.
OK, so no booze. But did you ever smoke anything on the Avatar set, so you believed you were actually on another planet?
I think Jim may have smoked something. He had to. You’ve seen the planet. When he first showed me the script, I said, “I don’t know how you’re gonna do it. There’s this six-legged, armour-plated horse with human hands and an anteater tongue. What have you been eating? What’s going on in your head?”
As a former bricklayer, have you got any advice for the brickies out there wanting to make it as actors?
Get out of bricklaying and find a chick to get into drama school with. I look at acting like bricklaying. It’s one brick at a time – one job at a time. And the mortar in the middle is your mates.
Is there a particular men’s mag brickies should be reading on the dunny?
I’d be an idiot not to say
RALPH, hey?
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