From OMG! Yahoo:

What’s the craziest thing that happened on the set?
The time I asked the director [Aram Rappaport] if I could walk across the street for a foot massage at an Asian foot massage parlor and he said yes, then 10 minutes later my phone was blowing up and the [assistant directors] were looking everywhere for me. Apparently, I was in the next scene.

How often do you talk to your former “Twilight” co-stars?
I talk to almost all of them when we run into each other or are in the same cities. But Ashley Greene was and is definitely my best friend of the bunch. We had the same agent before we got the movies, so we were already friends beforehand.

OK, time for the serious questions. How do keep your abs so ab-tastic?
If I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question! Truth is I work out and do sit-ups. Boxing helps big time! I also try and train with the 8711 stunt team [the team that's worked with actors for movies such as "The Bourne Legacy" and "The Avengers"] down close to where I live in L.A. They are the best at making my body hurt from teaching me new Mixed Martial Arts moves. There are no shortcuts or secrets. I eat healthy for the most part, minus some candy now and again. I have a sweet tooth.

You’ve been cast as the lead in the upcoming remake of “Hercules” directed by Renny Harlin of “Die Hard 2″ and “Cliffhanger.” How will you step up your workout for that role?
I’ve been doing two-a-days, which is workout slang for working out twice a day, morning and late afternoon. The director doesn’t want me to get too big, so just trying to put on a little extra muscle and lean up as much as I can. And again I did some extra training with David Leitch from 8711 who’s a big stunt coordinator. He’s awesome.

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From CraveOnline:

Hercules is the role of a lifetime, but you knew The Rock is doing a Hercules movie too. Was there any pause for you about embarking on another one?
No, no, and I love The Rock. I grew up watching wrestling. He’s such a great actor. I wish them the best. They have a great cast but the story is completely different. He’s much older and our Hercules is the man’s journey from him being a boy to a man, and it’s very real and human. Our character goes through being lovestruck and then heartbroken and then anguish and loneliness, sadness and remorse. It’s really a story about a man, a man and the journey to get back to his love. So it’s not a man with super powers. A man not understanding the strengths that he does have and he’s in denial because he doesn’t believe in gods at first and doesn’t believe that he’s the son of Zeus and just really feels rejected by who he thinks is his father. It’s just really going through the story of what a normal boy would go through and the situation that he’s forced into.

I saw a picture of The Rock’s costume and he’s unrecognizable with long hair and a beard. What is your look going to be?
You know what, I wish I had the long blonde locks. I was really fighting for that just because I always envisioned Hercules as that but we have so many fight scenes that are beyond epic. And riding a horse, if it’s not your natural hair, it’d be a lot of work and we don’t have time for that. So my look’s just, I have short hair in this. It’s very cropped and manly.

Will you have any mythological powers at all?
Well, even Renny [Harlin] himself, he’s like, “Kellan, I don’t want you getting bigger. Just get your abs to pop more.” I’m like, “All right, cool.” And I like being bigger. Even I saw Hercules as this giant guy, but the powers that he harnesses, it’s not like he’s throwing bears into the sky or really fighting off any of the monsters like Clash of the Titans or anything like that. It’s really just Gladiator pretty much.

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From ET Online:

ETonline: What attracted you to Java Heat? Kellan Lutz: The script. I really love action movies; I love being physical, I love being the hero. But there’s not a lot of good ones that are well-written, so when I read Java Heat, it piqued my interest. I was excited to work with Conor Allyn [director/writer], who had such a great, clear vision. Plus we got to film in Indonesia, where I’d never been.

ETonline: How did you like Indonesia?
Lutz: I was pretty busy working, but our movie shot on 35 different locations, so it was a blessing to be able to see the countryside and the palaces while filming. It’s a really beautiful place, but to see the poverty in that way blew me away. It’s tough for them, but they always have smiles on their faces even though some of them have so little. But the government really opened their doors and said, “You wanna crash a car on our streets? Sure! We’ll lock the streets down!”

ETonline: The action is really amazing — how did the required physicality compare to your past roles?
Lutz: I’ve done some really cool action movies, I have to say, and it always puts a smile on my face to reminisce about the fight training I’ve done, or learning how to use a trident. But doing a movie where you’re using practical explosions and put fire gel on yourself and feel that blaze all over your body while shooting guns, is just incredible. And everything I learn for every project gets put into the next one. Like for Generation Kill, I learned you are supposed to tuck your shoe laces into your boots because otherwise it’s disgraceful. My brother is in the Army, so when my brother says, “I noticed your laces were tucked in, good job bro,” it makes my day. The causal viewer may not notice, but I take that stuff into every role I do, and it makes me smile even if no one else notices. That education is one of the great things about every new role I take. I am applying previous work to every new character.

ETonline: Syrup is about how you market a product. When it comes to your career, how much do you think about what each role means to the overall trajectory of your career?
Lutz: I’m very hands-on in my career. I think I read more scripts than anyone on my team because I want my heart in every role. Twilight was such a blessing because it opened so many doors and we get so many scripts thrown at us as a result. But I really don’t want to take a role for the money or because someone tells me it’ll make me famous. I don’t care about any of that. I’m blessed to have the ability to be choosy and patient. You know, it’s tough turning down work, especially when your team says it’s a great independent [film] that will balance out your action work, but I just have to listen to my heart. It’s tough to be unemployed and wait for a year, like I did for Tarzan, and then another year, like I did for Hercules, but you feel better at the end of the day because you know it’s right. Life’s too short and I really want to enjoy what I’m doing, otherwise there’s no reason to do it. Simple as that.

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From offtothefilms.com:

At the Dallas International Film Festival, Off To The Films had the opportunity to interview, along with a roundtable of additional interviewers, to interview Kellan Lutz.

Q: What got you involved with this project (“Java Heat”)?
Kellan Lutz: For three years going back. You know what, I believe, you know, you have agents and you have managers and they are actively looking for new job opportunities and they read tons of scripts and then you have a director, in our case Conor, who has a short list of actors that he could see play the lead role of Jake and the two worlds come together. You know, I’m not sure if Conor reached out to my people or if my people had read the script and, you know, submitted myself for the role of Jake, but it ended up me taking a meeting with Conor and I read the script, I loved the script, so I wanted to do it right away and then Conor, I don’t think he knew much about me, so he wanted to meet me in person… So I met with him and I fell in love with him and he’s a really amazing director. You know he’s great to work with, but just a really great guy, so that’s why we’re friends to this day. I don’t think you really become friends with directors too often, but, you know, it kind of just worked out and, you know, we both loved each other for the roles…

Q: This was a very physical role for you. Did you have to train, especially, you know, to shoot guns?
KL: Well, I love action movies. I love being physical. That is one of my strong suits. Crying on camera? Probably not one of my strong suits. Some people are just good at different things. You can always work towards it, but I’d rather play towards my strengths, which are more physical, action-packed roles and, you know, with training in the numerous movies and projects I’ve done, especially military-based ones, I just have a draw to it… But for this movie, there was no special training as far as anything that just like I’ve known before and it was really just a giant choreography session of like learning the dance of the fight scenes and then, “OK, now jump out the window. OK, now run on the roof. Now jump down. Now hit the guy. Now jump on the motorcycle. Now flip him off.” So it was just, it’s just fun.

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