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Tall Actors Giant Life
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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(Or the other reason Actors are 'snobbish')
Today received an email from a reader of my site claiming that he loved all the movies I starred in....
"what f'n movies" was my first thought, I have not starred in any movies yet, I have acted in a few, some decent roles but no starring roles (yet). Then I realised that this guy is in a country that will have had the DVD release of maybe 1 movie that I have worked on in Thailand....
WTF? then....
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Friday, 31 October 2008 |
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Yesterday I was contacted by Producer Maurice Vaughan about a show of interest in his upcoming movie: Extinction.
A brief discussion was had and I am now reading through the futuristic sci-fi action movie script...
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Bodybuilding and Muscle Gain
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 |
I found this photo the other week of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of Conan the Destroyer, I was surprised and shocked to see Arnold look like a small boy next to Andre The Giant and Wilt Chamberlain...
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Saturday, 18 October 2008 |
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Yesterday I recieved a call from German Eric, my stuntman friend:
"Have you been to the casting for the WWE movie yet?"
"No, as usual no one has told me about the details"
I knew a quiet a while ago that the WWE were making a movie here in Thailand rather than their usual place of Queensland, Australia but I did not know which movie it was nor when it was casting.
As usual all the super bright people here who are supposed to be my representation (and take a 30% commission on any work they can send me to) did not have to cranial capacity to think WWE = wrestling, maybe we should see if we can get the only wrestler in Thailand into the movie?
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Tall Actors Giant Life
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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
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I just realised that I have not done a blog on most bloggers favourite subject - "my blog: my life is so boring I am going to blog on what I ate today"
Yes I am being rude, but really as a blogger who cares what you had for breakfast.... what? OK then, your mum cares but we don't....
...so I am going to blog (very little) about what I ate, do a mini review then do my typical rant that some find interesting/entertaining/annoying...
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Acting Movies TV Film
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
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Film student projects, amateur video shoots, Indie films (Independant films), no budget and deferred payment movies - all basically volunteer movie projects that you can work on.
Personally I have worked on a few different types of these already, firstly for experience and secondly for footage and thirdly to make contacts.
But there is now very little chance that I will work on any of these again any time soon....
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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YES! Drona is releasing in 2 weeks time, more showreel for me.
Today I scoured the web for information and it seems that my name is all over the place in connection with this Drona movie, great, it will be nice to see if the website traffic from India suddenly increases in 2 weeks time... I certainly am hoping it will.
Also I found the new theatrical trailer and a couple of released photos, so I can display these without breaking my NDA.
Conan Stevens As An Asura (Mythical Demon)
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Saturday, 13 September 2008 |
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My first cover story since Drum Media in Sydney in 1998.
Pretty exciting for me, even though the Australian media dismisses me as a nobody and of little to no interest to the Australian audience as I am not on Australian TV, even though I cannot get an interview or article in Australia and no PR agent wants to represent me, those that I contacted and spoke to were disdainful and some where even somewhat condescending to me, when even some unnamed (you know who you are) management at the Sydney Dance Company outright said I was not of interest to the media....
Here I am Front cover and a 3 page internal story in a magazine that has a 24,000 member distribution....
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Saturday, 13 September 2008 |
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No, not me.... Dolph Lundgren.
I found a quote a few days ago after watching a 'recent' Dolph Lundgren movie shot in China, called Diamond Dogs, after my own movie experience in China and hearing some behind the scenes information on what happened at the movie set I just had to watch the movie and see how it came out.
Not a particularly inspiring movie, very standard storyline, something I would have loved as a wannabe macho 14 year old boy struggling with hormonal changes and a new identity caused by this. Judging by what I heard the budget to be and the money they would have received from sales of distribution rights my guess is that the movie was a success by the only real measure producers and investors are interested in - financial.
This got me wondering about Dolph Lundgren's early career and how he got into movies in the first place....
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Tall Actors Giant Life
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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Recently I have been getting a fair few emails from people asking me to help them get into movies it is a pretty standard format:
Hi Conan, my name is x (1. we met at y or 2 I found you online), I am a really good writer/actor/fighter and I really want to get into movies. Can you help me?
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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Political and civil unrest have been prevalent throughout Bangkok now for over a week with parliment house blockaded and the Government meeting in a different location.
A State Of Emergency has been called several days ago and the military put on standby.
Will this turn into another coup like the 2006 coup ...
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
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It is looking very likely that I will be working in 1, and possibly in 2 overseas movies early next year. At this point I cannot say anymore but as soon as I am able to write more I will.
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General Stuff
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 |
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My old (1 year and 3 weeks old) Compaq laptop died last week, leaving me without effective internet access. Sure enough my Nokia N95 has the ability but the keyboard and screen size makes it tiresome, not to mention having to manually go through all the incoming spam rather than letting Thunderbird handle it all for me.
I have purchased a new Toshiba laptop with a 3 year warranty so hopefully this one will be designed to last a bit longer.
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Motivation Inspiration Success
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 |
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Today I recieved a message from a reader, the entire message was "I WANT TO BE YOU!!", my first thought was
"No you bloody well don't"...
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
I had a damaged MySQL table that failed to load the full sized photo when a photo thumbnail links was clicked.
With the simple and handy tool 'phpMyAdmin' I just went in to the database, cheked all the tables found the index for the galleries damaged and then ran the repair option on it, then for good measure I ran optimise table on all the tables.
So now the site should be working fine again.
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Tall Actors Giant Life
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
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Alright Saturday night - night when people with real jobs go out and get drunk!
What is Conan doing? What is there to do in Bangkok on a Saturday night - actually that has to be one of the dumbest questions of all time - you can do ANYTHING....
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 |
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I just wrote a massive article on the movie preview and the f'n website timed out and did not save the article, I am not writing it all again, suffice to say I met some interesting people who could be some very interesting future contacts and I was happy with my 10 seconds on screen - also the movie will not be released internationally as it is far too Thai (cultural references).
Hanuman Bad Guys + Conan + Hot chicks (Behind)
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Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
Chickenpox, or Chicken F'ing Pox to use some handy Australian punctuation slang, or "The illness of the infants?" as my good Parisian friend Anthony said...
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
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First the Hanuman The White Monkey Warrior movie poster and now the Hanuman action movie trailer, and also another poster for this local produced movie, and an accompanying music video.
In the trailer I can be seen very, very briefy at the 54 second mark with the group of prize fighters (I am the biggest one of course) but am also wearing a ski mask so my face doesn't show.
In my final take I throw the hero across the room and then yell at him, to add dramatic effect (and to get my face onscreen) I pulled off the ski mask spat on the ground (in contempt) and yelled obscenities at the Hero now laying face down across the room...
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Walking along Sukhumvit yesterday I noticed that the Treasured Island DVD is on the streets, apparently it has been for a while but this is the first time I have seen it.
Treasured Island is the English release title for the French movie I'lle Aux Tresors that we filmed in Ao Nung (near Krabi) and Trang in the south of Thailand, as you can tell by the beautiful beach and island scenes...
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Hanuman, by Panakorn films has a solid release date finally - 12th Aug 2008, only a few weeks away, with the premiere showing one week before. You may recall I first cast for this back in Aug 2006, then the working title was 'The Big'.
Cool. Finally I am getting showreel footage, and some measure of fame.
Ads and posters are up around the city and in cinemas now with the date firmly set...
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Not to be outdone by yesterdays Chandni Chowk To China trailer release, today I find that Drona has released it's trailer too... and they have changed the release date to 2nd Oct, 22 days before Chandni Chowk To China is released.
Conan in Drona
At this point all I can say is that I play the above character and fight with Abishek Bachchan (Drona) at a pivitol point in the movie.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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The Chandni Chowk to China movie trailer has been released already. Seeing as we only finished filming Chandni Chowk To China a couple of months ago this is a quick trailer release and with the movie slated for release at Diwali (festival of lights oct 28, 2008) in India...
Conan (as Joey) in Chandni Chowk To China
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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You meet these people in all areas of modern life, often you will notice them most when they possess a small amount of power over your life and they are going to exercise it to show you who is boss.
Sometimes these people, cannot achieve their dream of being able to affect your life so they just talk down to you as if you were some lower form of life.
These self important people really need a good kick up the backside to teach them manners, unfortunately in todays western society this sort of aggressive violence is looked down upon, so what can you do instead?
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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On my recent trip back to Australia for a week I noticed a few things that seem completely out of whack compared to my current life in Asia.
The constant negative fear mongering news was one thing, but the other even more scary thing was the modern western diet, even those who think they are eating healthily - it's enough to make a healthy person sick....
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Professional Wrestling
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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Popular wrestler, former WWF Raven is to star in a new Australian based Horror movie.
How do I know this? Am I a personal friend of Raven? No, but I have met him, even wrestled at the same show.
So then how do I know that Raven (Scott Levy) will be starring in this new horror movie....
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
It is now 2 years since I started this website, time flys fast. It only seems months ago that I was partying my butt of with Enzo at Q Bar Bangkok most nights with Stars in my eyes and vodka in my belly.
This time last year I was happy with the progress of my site, it was bringing in enough to survive upon and I was getting contacted for acting work.
So how has it all turned out in the last year....
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Monday, 30 June 2008 |
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Last week I was called by a new agent who approached me via my website several weeks ago, Stephen. As you can tell Stephen is not a Thai name and he has ideas about running a talent agency in a western fashion, which is more suitable for me for many reasons.
Also Stephen, unlike previous farang 'agents' (read rip off merchants) has spent considerable time in the Land Of Smiles, 12 years in fact, is fluent in Thai, understands local ettiquette and customs and fits in with Thai society and most importantly here he is very polite.
So Stephen calls me in for a casting for a TV Commercial...
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
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Last time I had a photo of Ray and I together was way back when we first started writting the Bangkok Adrenaline movie script.
That was way back on 24th Sept 2006, when Ray and I got together for our first trial day of scriptwritting.
So here we are again, 21 months later after the successful reception at Cannes of the Bangkok Adrenaline movie and we are both looking towards the future, what will come of this?
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 |
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DRONA, the Hindi film I travelled to Mumbai to shoot is finally starting to leak details into the public domain and I can report on DRONA in more detail without breaking my NDA.
From the times, when time itself was a newborn baby, the universe has kept one
secret carefully camouflaged within its folds. A secret, which if unraveled,
could unlock the destruction of mankind and the entire cosmos.
Today,
only one man can protect the universe's precious secret and thus, save the human
race from absolute annihilation...
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