I really cannot pinpoint any particular theme. I suppose it just appealed to me overall. I mean wasn't it every young boys fantasy to be a knight of Camelot and travel about xenophobically slaying monsters and rescuing damsels in distress whilst living out moral dilemmas based on your strict code of conduct?

*After a week of thinking about it* I guess it was the romanticism of a nobody overcoming the unexpected and major challenges and succeeding to become a reluctant hero. What did you love about it that drew you more into the world of fantasy and myth?Ĭonan: You know I really cannot say. Kel: You've mentioned you read The Hobbit (book) as a young boy. A lot of it has been fun, a lot of it was to do with maturing as a person, and learning about how life really works outside a safe urban environment in an economically and politically stable country of homogeneous population. The career path was a lot slower than I initially thought, and to be honest it has been a bit of a meandering course through life to this point. Kel: For those who might not know a lot about you, what's the Conan Stevens story in a nutshell?Ĭonan: A very skinny teenager I started in the gym after watching 'Conan The Destroyer' at the cinema with friends, these friends decided to become professional Bodybuilders and asked the 16 year old pre-Conan what he was going to do - the answer 'I'm too tall to become a Professional Bodybuilder', a 2 minute pause while I thought about it, though I subconsciously knew the answer already, â€œI want to become a Professional Wrestler, then use the fame to get into movies, like Hulk Hoganâ€ remembering of course back then Pro-Wrestling and Hulk Hogan were prime time TV in the days of limited TV channels, and it was still called a sport.Ģ7 years later I've almost achieved that skinny teenagers wild dreams that others, many others, laughed about.

Over the last few weeks I've had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderful Conan Stevens (Bolg) about his life and career.

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