A year ago, Sam Worthington broke up with his girlfriend of two-and-a-half years, Natalie Marks. The relationship was notable because Sam and Natalie had been together through his Hollywood rise, and once Sam seemed to be brokering a place on the A-list, he dumped her. It was also notable that Natalie was a self-described “stylist” yet she had increasingly horrendous style, including a really terrible case of bangs trauma. Anyway, Sam has a new girlfriend – her name is Crystal Humphries. These are photos of Sam and Crystal at last night’s LA premiere of Man on a Ledge. Some sites claim that this was Sam and Crystal’s red carpet debut as a couple, but they were at a screening of Man on a Ledge together last week. So, yes, this is the first big premiere red carpet, but they’ve been seen together before now.

I think Crystal is a pretty, normal-looking girl. Sam’s type doesn’t seem to be “bombshell” or “mind-numbingly hot”. He likes normal-looking, accessible, girl-next-door types, and considering how Sam is towering over Crystal, I think he must like ladies who are very petite. I’m just saying… Sam isn’t a very tall dude, so Crystal must be tiny.

Anyway, they make a cute couple. Sam has grown on me a bit, although I still think he’s a meathead. CB would probably still let Sam get it, though – I wonder if she approves of Sam’s new girl?

PS… I’m also including photos of Elizabeth Banks from last night’s premiere. She looked GREAT.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

As many have said before, Hollywood is really trying to make Sam Worthington happen. I used to be opposed to it, but after I saw his understated, dramatic supporting part in The Debt, I’m not so opposed to him anymore. Sure, in interviews he can seem like a meathead. But he might be a meathead with some quiet talent, a meathead who is making some interesting career choices. Take his new movie, Man on a Ledge, which we saw photos from last year. The basic story line: an ex-con climbs out on a ledge and claims that he’s innocent, and he was railroaded, and chaos ensues. It’s one of the rare “modern” stories that Sam has been a part of thus far in his career, and while I’m sure it will be billed as a star vehicle designed to make Sam “happen” – it actually looks like a decent ensemble. The directed added quite a bit of weight in the supporting cast, with Ed Harris, Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie and Edward Burns. Here’s the new trailer:

I kind of hate to admit that the trailer gave me some goosebumps. Things that I like: the production value can be seen – it looks like a smart, expensive film that actually filmed in NYC (which it did); I like the hints at the storyline, and I like that I can’t figure out the entire thing from the trailer. And I have to say, Sam doesn’t look too bad either. I can’t figure out if the character is supposed to have an Aussie accent, though. I actually think the character is supposed to be American, which… Sam has problems with.

So, will you help Sam “happen” and see this film in January? I might.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Australian actor Sam Worthington seems like he came out of nowhere through the monolith of Avatar, but he’s actually a long-term success story who spent over a decade trying to make his way before he got his big break from James Cameron. After Avatar, Worthington immediately went into workaholic mode with Terminator Salvation and Clash of the Titans. After that came The Debt and a romantic drama, Last Night, in which he stars with Keira Knightley (strange pairing, right?). Currently, Worthington is doing preliminary promotional rounds for Texas Killing Fields, which also stars Jeffrey Dean Mortan and Chloe Moretz. In this Men’s Fitness interview, however, Worthington doesn’t discuss his upcoming movie or fitness, but he does reveal a few little-known tidbits, including how he climbed out of obscurity and homelessness as well as recovering from the sting of barely losing the James Bond role to Daniel Craig:

On Acting: Acting and its attendant responsibilities may seem like a craft, but it’s really a vocation. “Ultimately that’s what it is,” Worthington says. “A job. A wonderful job that I’d never put down and I’m extremely lucky to have. But it’s a job.”

On Transforming His Career: After spending his 20s struggling maintain consistent work and “p-ssing money up against the wall” when he had it, Worthington arrived at age 30 unhappy on both professional and personal fronts. He was still single. “I had to figure out who I was by myself,” he says. His solution would be too dramatic for any manual.

“I looked in the mirror and didn’t like what I saw,” he says. “So I sold the mirror.” In fact, he sold everything, from the mirror to his house. He pulled together the proceeds, jumped in his car, and headed “for the snow.” Worthington was in the mountains between Sydney and Melbourne a few weeks later when he received a call. His agent wanted him back in Sydney to tape an audition for an unnamed American project. “I worked out if it was worth spending the gas money,” he recalls, “and decided that it probably was.”

On His Attitude Towards Failure: Worthington was ready for rejection. He’d been in the United States before, as one of three final candidates in the 007 franchise’s search for Pierce Brosnan’s replacement. “It was me, Daniel Craig, and another guy,” he says. He never told anyone, and the story hit only when director Martin Campbell told the media how close Worthington had come to donning the tux. “I wasn’t going to tell them about my failures,” Worthington says. Failures mean nothing, he believes, no matter how illustrious the context.

On Changing His Fate After the call [for Avatar] came, the work began in earnest. His shifts ran up to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week. In Australia, Worthington had never forgotten the work ethic of his childhood, even when it clashed with the party ethic of young adulthood. “It didn’t matter if I’d been drinking all night; I’d still be there at 6 a.m.,” he says. “But that doesn’t work now, and it certainly didn’t work on Avatar.”

“They say that in your 20s you’re trying to work out the man that you want to be, and in your 30s you discover who he is. And warped and all, beer gut and all, brain damage and all, you just kind of go, ‘Well, this is it, and I might as well try to polish it a tiny bit.’ I’m stuck with who I am, but I can be man enough to iron out the creases.”

On Taking A Break: “I haven’t taken a break in 4 years. It’s been a nomadic existence. Now it’s time to enjoy the fruits of my labor for a little bit.” So he’ll take a quick breather and then return to work—just as he’s done his entire life. “Yeah,” he concedes. “I don’t think I’ll be gone for long.”

On Patience: Worthington points out that his and other Australians’ overnight successes usually come with a backstory of slog. “Naomi Watts says she’s a 10-years-in-the-business overnight success,” he says with a laugh. “And what about Geoffrey Rush? He was almost 50 when Shine hit.”

[From Men's Health]

Until now, I’ve not had any strong reaction towards or against Sam Worthington, but this interview has made me really like his attitude. He’s sort of the anti-James Franco, you know? And currently, Franco isn’t exactly known for his humility or seeing acting as work but only as “art.” Methinks it’s time to turn the tide back a bit and recognize that
“art” is merely a cliché employed by the likes of Franco and Lady Gaga for their own purposes. Enough of the spoiled, pompous actors and singers and more of those who recognize entertainment not only as a job but one that they’re extremely lucky to have.

Still, do I think Worthington would’ve made a better James Bond than Daniel Craig? Oh, don’t be ridiculous.

Photos courtesy of Men’s Fitness

I think CB still likes Sam Worthington, and I’m actually starting to come around on this meathead. He doesn’t seem like a bad guy, he’s just kind of rough around the edges. He has potential. He’s no Fassbender, but he’ll do in a pinch. And these new photos of him – he was out to lunch in LA with David Spade, of all people – are pretty hot to me. You know I like ‘em scruffy. Sam looks better scruffy. I can’t even hate on his shorts!

Anyway, Sam is the cover boy for the September issue of Men’s Health. He talks a lot about his body:

Sam Worthington says the training regime for ‘Clash of the Titans 2′ has left him feeling like a “tank”. The actor has been working with Rodney Johnson – the trainer who got Christian Bale into shape for ‘Batman Begins’ – to get into the best possible physical condition to reprise his role as Perseus in next year’s blockbuster. Sam – who has been in Wales shooting the sequel – has now revealed exactly how Rodney helped him bulk up for the part.

He said: “Before ‘Clash of the Titans,’ I was doing five or six hours of training a day. I’d get up, train for two hours, eat, then have a short sleep. Then I’d get up, train again with heavy weights, eat and sleep again. By the time I finished I was a tank.”

The 34-year-old star’s intense schedule allows him to pile on muscle, burn body fat and build definition and he says he often feels more like a “boxer” than an actor.

He said: “You’re living like a boxer. The training is fast and furious, that means the results come pretty darn quickly. Rodney got Christian from the size he was in ‘The Machinist’ – where he couldn’t even do one press-up – to the size he was in ‘Batman Begins’, in less than four months.”

Although Sam has appeared in a number of action films in the last three years, including ‘Terminator Salvation’, ‘Avatar’ and ‘The Debt’, which have required him to embark on grueling exercise regimes, he admits he doesn’t really enjoy hitting the gym.

He said: “I don’t get a kick out of it, and I don’t enjoy it. But I do see the results.”

[From Men’s Health, via Sam’s Fansite]

Even though I get that Sam and Christian Bale were working with a professional trainer, I still have doubts as to whether it’s good for your body to make such drastic changes so quickly, especially when you’re going back and forth from emaciated to ripped. Plus, as we saw the other day in those photos from the Pittsburgh set of The Dark Knight Rises, it seems like Bale hasn’t bulked up for this one – perhaps because he’s punished his body too much already.

Also – remember how Sam dumped his Bangs Trauma girlfriend? I never even learned her name, I just called her Bangs Trauma. Anyway, he’s got a new piece – no one knows her name yet, though.

Photos courtesy of Fame & PCN.

Well, CB will be happy. She adores this meathead for some reason. Tabloids are reporting that Sam Worthington is now a single man. Apparently, he and his girlfriend of two and a half years have broken up. She’s the chick with the bangs trauma. She’s a stylist, apparently. Anyway, folded into this story about their alleged split is a tale of Sam’s increasingly douchey behavior. He sounds like a pill.

They appeared to be one of those couples that would always stick. But the long-standing relationship between Avatar star Sam Worthington and his fashion stylist girlfriend, Natalie Marks, appears to have come undone. The 34-year-old Australian actor and the pretty brunette, 24, have split up after nearly three years together.

According to reports, the couple have not been seen together since last October when they were spotted watching a basketball match at New York’s Madison Square Gardens. A source close to the pair said that for those who know them it was no surprise.

‘It has been on the cards a while, I believe,’ an insider told Australian newspaper, Daily Telegraph.

And it seems that Sam may not be taking the split so well. Witnesses at a recent annual Australian event were astounded when the sci-fi star displayed some shocking aggressive behaviour. At the G-day LA event in Los Angeles, when instructed by organisers to wait before walking the red-carpet , Sam reportedly slammed his fist into a photo wall and screamed profanities. He then walked into the Hollywood Palladium through a side entrance, seemingly to avoid the waiting press. Inside the bash, his angry manner persisted when he continuously left his seat and swore. But the actor’s belligerent behaviour didn’t appear to dampen his generosity.

Sam raised a bid from A$20,000 (£12,500) to A$50,000 (£31,250) on a four-night stay at a luxurious resort in one of Australia’s most exotic locations, the Great Barrier Reef’s Hamilton Island. The actor won the prize, with his cash going towards charity.

After partying with the who’s who of Aussie actors, Sam then moved a group of revellers to his hotel room at the infamous Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard. The apparent celebrations continued until the next morning.

Sam, who was born in Surrey but moved to Perth in western Australia as a baby, had been dating Natalie for over two-and-a-half years. The couple met while Natalie was working for his Australian-based management agency, Shanahans. Sam once confessed that his former flame kept his feet on the ground, admitting: ‘She keeps me in line – she makes me do the washing.’

Sam is currently preparing to film Wrath Of The Titans, the sequel to Clash Of The Titans.

[From The Daily Mail]

Dude, does he think that he’s Russell Crowe? All piss and vinegar and shrimp on the barbie. Ugh. I mean, the charity stuff is nice, I guess, but all of the other stuff is just like… settle down, dude. Most people don’t know who you are. Stop trying to be the next Russell Crowe, in crappy personality only.

Also – so Sam is single now. Who should he hook up with next, besides CB? Blake Lively is up for it, you know. He’s not an Oscar winner or anything, but he’d still be an upgrade for her. I could see him with ScarJo too – two meatheads, joined together in love. Sam is even ScarJo’s type, I think.

Thanks to LaineyGossip for the heads up!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some newer photos of Sam Worthington working on Man on a Ledge over the weekend. I’m bringing them to you because I know you bitches love some Worthington. Especially CB – I offered these to CB, and she was all “meh”. Honestly, though, Sam’s styling for this film is really working for me. While I once thought he was a dumb, short meathead, I’m now seeing the hotness. After all, I’m going to need someone to replacement-crush on after Gerard Butler leaves the douche building with John Mayer.

Also in these photos (and in the film): Ed Harris and Kyra Sedgwick (in Uggs!). Can I just have a word about my Kyra Love? She’s awesome. The Closer is awesome. I love her so much, and I love that she’s doing smaller film roles in between shooting The Closer. She can act her ass off, and I love that she’s had this whole second-career resurgence in her 40s with The Closer. I wonder what Kyra thinks of Sam? If she thinks he’s a meathead too, I’ll love her forever.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Sam Worthington is one of CB’s crushes. I hesitate to call Sam one of her “forever dongs” just because I think Matt Damon’s dong is The One. But CB definitely has a problem, and that problem is thinking Sam Worthington is some kind of hot piece of man meat. Should I make fun of her for this crush? Gently tease her, perhaps? I wish I could, but girls who get turned on by Gerard Butler’s moobs ’n mullet have no right to cast aspersions on ANYONE (“People who worship at the altar of Butler dong shouldn’t throw stones.”) Plus, there are a couple of things about Sam that I actually think are okay.

Take these photos are of Sam filming his new film, Man on a Ledge. Shockingly, Sam does not have to wear a loincloth, carry a sword, or be dependent on CGI for this role. He’s playing a normal guy, wearing normal, modern clothes. And it’s not bad, is it? He actually looks rather nice and attractive… accessible, even. In these photos, you can’t even tell how short he is. And I’ll give Sam credit – he has that movie star ability, where his face really changes in different lights and different angles. Like Blanchett, or Meryl Streep. In one angle, he’s a normal guy. In another angle, with a different light, he’s gorgeous. In yet another light, he looks like a Neanderthal.

In case anyone is interested in the plot of Man on a Ledge, Cinema Blend summarizes:

Worthington stars in the film as a cop threatening to take his own life, with Anthony Mackie as his partner, Jamie Bell as his bank robber brother executing a heist across the street, Elizabeth Banks as the psychologist trying to talk him down, Ed Burns as the rival hostage negotiator challenging her, and recently added Ed Harris as a businessman with some kind of role in Worthington’s suicide attempt and Titus Welliver as the detective in charge of the crime scene.

[From Cinema Blend]

Hot damn, that’s an interesting cast! Anthony Mackie, Ed Burns, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell! Elizabeth Banks is… meh. Just in dramatic roles, I do like her when she does comedy. I’m getting an Inside Man vibe from the plot, like there are a lot of moving pieces to the plot, and like it could be an interesting action/drama. We’ll see.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve been baffled by recent interviews with Sam Worthington. Sometimes he comes across as one of the biggest dolts to ever become a working actor. Other times he seems rather funny and engaging. Is this all a plot to keep people guessing? I have no idea. And I’m starting to care less and less about the whole business, quite honestly. Worthington sat down for an interview in Parade to promote Clash of the Titans, and he comes across as… full of himself, I think. He mentions that he thought Harry Hamlin (star of the original Clash of the Titans) was “fey” and “could have butched it up more”. He also laments actors complaining about their on-set injuries, saying: “You have to watch actors that talk up getting hurt. I think any actor that talks up the amount of bruises they got is a bit soft.” Eh. I guess he’s trying not to be jaded and “Hollywood”. But he comes across as bitchy, in my opinion. As I was reading this, I honestly wondered what my reaction would be if some of this stuff came out of Jessica Biel’s mouth. I would probably rip her a new one. So is Sam the male Jessica Biel?

Wearing a skirt into battle.
“The upside is that it’s very well ventilated. Look, Russell Crowe wore one for Gladiator, Eric Bana wore one for Troy, Mel wore one for Braveheart. I think it was the next logical step in my career. I think it’s something every young Australian actor has to do, isn’t it? You earn your chops for putting on the dress.”

That’s about all he took from the star of the original Clash.
“No disrespect to Harry Hamlin, but I think he was a bit fey and he could have butched it up a bit for want of a better word. I’d never seen any other ancient kind of movie in which the star has a buzz cut. I just wanted to look a bit different since my character’s been on a boat all his life as a fisherman where he doesn’t have a chance to get his hair done. So I just shaved my head.”

Classics for the young.
“I looked on Perseus as like a troublesome teenager. Teenagers kind of have problems with their parents. He’s got the biggest parent of all time, his dad is Zeus, the god of gods and he’s got a bit of beef with him. I thought that’s something that every kid that goes to see the movie can relate to because it’s a growing up kind of thing. I have a nine-year-old nephew and the message to him is, you don’t have to be a god to succeed. You get together with a group of people who are like minded and fight for a common cause.”

Pass the Band-Aids.
“We did quite a bit of stunt work, but you have to watch actors that talk up getting hurt. I think any actor that talks up the amount of bruises they got is a bit soft. I’ve got a nephew that gets more bruised than most actors when he plays in the back yard. But we had our days when we might be limping a bit. I play tough guys but I’m not a tough guy in real life.”

Time for actors to understand that being blue and animated is still acting.
“There was kind of an ignorance as to how we did it in Avatar. Now Jim Cameron is showing a lot of behind-the-scenes footage. Even though it’s animated with motion capture, it is our performance a hundred percent. So actors don’t have to fear being replaced by technology. Motion capture is just a tool. Acting is essentially just using your imagination to find the truth in imaginary circumstances. The special effects just take you back to the essence of what acting is.”

There will be an Avatar 2.
“Jim has talked to me about different story points. I can’t tell you more than that because the security guys would come flying through the window. Jim has to find the challenge in the next story. It’s a bit like Clash of the Titans, you don’t just do it unless you can kind of improve on it. I think Jim is working to improve on Avatar and that’s where it’s at.”

And he’s not on a star trip either.
“I didn’t set out into this profession to become a star, but the ascent has been very rapid and I’m still pinching myself. I was at the Oscars with Jennifer Lopez and I felt like I was in a dream. But you just try to keep grounded. It’s the good thing about being Australian, I think. We have a sensibility to keep our feet on the deck. All the tinsel of Tinseltown doesn’t really bother me.”

The story behind those red sneakers he wore on the Oscar red carpet.
“The ones they gave me made me look like a hobgoblin. J-Lo would have tripped on them, and I would probably have fallen off the stage and ripped her dress. It would have been ridiculous, so I just kind of went with what was comfortable. I bought a pair of red ones for a few bucks at Payless, which was the closest store. I didn’t give a crap how they looked because they were comfy. But I guess the word spread, which is kind of cool. They sold every red pair they had. Now I guess I’m kind of the Payless poster boy.”

[From Parade]

So is he the male Jessica Biel? Not really. Jessica Biel would have found some way to mention how gorgeous she is and how she deserves an Oscar. Maybe the similarity is that both Biel and Worthington are trying too hard to sell a certain image of themselves – in Biel’s case, the too-beautiful Oscar hopeful just looking for the right part. In Worthington’s case, he’s trying to convince us he’s the truth-telling tough guy who never needs to “butch it up.” I stand by my assessment of Sam – there’s something off-putting about him – to me, at least. I know CB (and many others) enjoy him. But I did like the Payless story. And I’d really like to know how a man putting on dress shoes with a tuxedo somehow equals “hobgoblin”. Is he talking about how short he is?

I was so disappointed when I went through these photos of the London premiere of Clash of the Titans. Liam Neeson didn’t show up! Liam plays Zeus. Ralph Fiennes didn’t come either – he plays Hades, God of the Underworld. The Kraken didn’t come either! DAMN. You know who we got? Sam Worthington and a parade of people who I neither know or care about. I mean, sure, Mads Mikkelsen and Gemma Arterton were both in Bond films, so I vaguely know who they are. And I adore little Nicholas Hoult, but it’s not like he’s some huge, established hottie. I wonder why Liam and Ralph didn’t come? Did they not want to overshadow Worthington? Figuratively, because they’re so wonderful, and literally, because Worthington is a tiny man. But he’s still hardcore, right? Sam gave a recent “hardcore” interview to Collider about his role in Titans (full piece here):

Question: With all these big projects you’ve already been a part of, are you working hard to keep a personal life separate from your work?
Sam: I’m not out here to be a star. I’m out here to help tell stories. If you want to be a star, go on “Big Brother.” I came out here to help the director facilitate his vision, which is to tell these escape stories. You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I’m a tough, heroic figure, but I’m a sensitive pussycat. When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well. But, I don’t look at any disassociation. I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that’s a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That’s my job.

What were some of the physical challenges of being in this film and fighting in sandals and a dress?
Sam: I didn’t wear sandals. I wore Nikes, and I painted toes on my Nikes. I was sprinting off and doing a lot bigger stunts while they had dirt getting in their sandals and they were tripping all over the place. I was the smart one that thought ahead. We were above the clouds as well. The altitude was ridiculous. I don’t know exactly how high up we were. And, the terrain of Wales sucked. That was the worst place I’ve ever filmed. I love the Welsh and Wales is a beautiful place, but not a f-cking slate mine with the rain going up. That was tough. That is the entrance to the Underworld. You know you’re in trouble when everyone around you on set is wearing a hard hat and things are falling off while you’re just standing there in your dress. And, shooting underwater was harder than I thought. Underwater is tough. I thought it would be easy. It slows everything done. It times everything by two. It’s weird. Screw doing The Abyss. I don’t know how Jim Cameron did it ’cause underwater is a hard place to film. That’s only 20 or 35 seconds of film, but that took us at least four days.

Were you familiar with the stories of Greek mythology before making this film?
Sam: I don’t know about in America or anywhere else, but in Australia we grow up learning the myths, like the Minotaur and the maze, and things like that. But, I didn’t really study Greek mythology for this film. This is a fun ride. It’s me in a dress with a couple of guys in dresses, with rubber swords, fighting monsters. It’s not a history lesson. I’m a big believer in that, so I didn’t really look deep into the old Perseus because he wore no clothes. I think that would have been quite horrific for young kids. We were well aware of them, but ours isn’t a history lesson.

What is your definition of a hero?
Sam: Heroic is not fighting. It’s actually getting back up off the canvas. Or, if someone else gets knocked down, you help them up. That’s how I look at it. That’s my definition of a hero. I wanted Perseus to be like a troubled adolescent. The whole movie is about family, in my book. He loses his adopted family, and he is a boisterous teen. I didn’t want him to listen to anybody. Out of that, he finds a heroic quality through finding another family, and learns to calm down and become an adult. Every movie I do has a lot of similarities. There’s a duality of man, whether it’s half-man/half-God for Clash, half-man/half-robot for Terminator or half-man/half-big blue alien for Avatar. I’m either screwed up, searching for something within myself, or I like those characters. If you have a character that has an inner conflict, like that duality can give you, and you put him in other conflicts, than you’re either a villain or a hero. Heroism doesn’t come out of what you believe you can do, but it’s how other people endow you with it. I think, by him learning to calm down and embrace this family, they then can claim that he’s a hero. That’s how I look at heroism.

How was it to work opposite Liam Neeson?
Sam: It was intimidating and I shat myself. He’s the big boy. When you’re playing with the big boys, you man up and shut up and you listen. Liam acts with such grace. He’s a gentle man and he’s an imposing force on screen. You literally go in there and it’s a learning experience. You observe what he can do on set, and he gives you advice on how to handle all this and the outside world with hopefully some sensitivity. Same with Ralph Fiennes. You just listen. These guys did Schindler’s List, and Liam did Rob Roy and Taken. Collectively, there’s 100-odd movies between them, so as far as an infant like me is concerned, you listen.

[From Collider]

Okay, so I might have to revise my opinion of Sam – he didn’t come across as dumb – like he has in other interviews. He actually seems like a halfway decent guy! Unfortunately for CB’s crush on Sam, it looks like he’s pretty attached to his girlfriend, Whats-Her-Guts McBANGS. Too bad! CB would have let Sam do some really dirty stuff “accidentally”.

Damn, Nicholas Hoult really has grown up to be very pretty, hasn’t he? Look at those eyes!

‘Clash of the Titans’ premiere in London on March 29, 2010. Credit: WENN.

I’ve never really been a fan of Sam Worthington. There was like a split second last year when I thought he could be a Gerard Butler-esque contender on my top ten “Hot Man Buffet For the Ages” but it died a swift death when I actually read a few interviews with him. The man is dumb as a box of hair. And as for his looks… well, he’s attractive in some ways (CB certainly thinks so), but he’s a lot smaller than you realize. He’s, like, barely taller than Ryan Seacrest. But CB thinks he’s hot and Lainey thinks he’s hot, so maybe there’s something wrong with me.

Anyway, Sam is the cover boy for the April Details Magazine (full piece here), all to promote his role in the upcoming Clash of the Titans. Now, maybe it’s because I’m so jaded about this dude that I can actually see through the exceptionally bad writing over at Details, but this is not a dude with anything of significance to say. And hand him off to a bad interviewer, and you have to slog through 1000 words before you even get to one full quote from Worthington. Here are some of the highlights, from what I could understand of this drivel and assorted grunts:

On why he comes across like an idiot: Talking about himself, laying himself bare for some notepad-wielding stranger, speaking his mind only to see “the stupid things I say” come boomeranging back at him in 12-point type—he hates it. “I’m still a very boisterous young man,” he says, in his bristly Aussie accent. “And I swear a bit more than I should. So I’m learning to temper it, you know?”

He likes to work: “I hate downtime. This is the first time I’ve had time off. I hate it.”

His childhood: “I’m not a great fan of people who say they put a sheet up in the backyard when they were 7 and entertained all the neighbors,” he says. “When I was 7, I thought I was a f-cking fire truck. Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out… then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.”

So how did the Fire Truck grow up to be an actor? A dreadlocked Worthington tagged along with a girlfriend, an aspiring actress, to her audition at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. For “moral support,” he says, he auditioned alongside her. He got in; she didn’t—and promptly dumped him.

James Cameron on Worthington: “It’s hard to find a guy who works for women and for men,” Cameron says. “With a lot of actors, women love them, but they don’t inspire men. I needed someone who could lead men into battle.” Worthington, he says, “was the one who went full Shakespeare.” They met, they clicked. “He impressed me as a tough guy,” Cameron says. “He had a flintiness about him.”

Why Sam doesn‘t like the word “art”: “Artistry has a kind of weird connotation,” he says, “because you can sound like you’re going straight up your f-cking ass if you say that.”

Living in hotels: “I like room service,” he admits. “They put a chocolate on my pillow. It’s kinda cool.”

What? “Most people could say, ‘I want to be on magazine covers. I want to have enough money to buy a house,’” he says. For Worthington, however, the goal isn’t nearly so tangible. “If it was tangible,” he says, “hopefully I wouldn’t be doing it, to be honest.”

On fame: “If you start walking around in a red chinchilla, thinking you’re better than everybody,” Worthington says, “you’re going to look like a dickhead.”

Is he a diva? “Well, I demand a lot,” he says, then backtracks, not wanting to position himself as some kind of diva. “I demand excellence in myself. I’m up front and quite outspoken, but I’ll give you everything.”

[From Details]

Ugh. I mean, I get it. The guy doesn’t want to wax on and on about “the craft” or his “method”. And I applaud that, truly. I get tired of reading interviews with actors when they won’t shut up about their craft. But, it just seems like Sam doesn’t have much to say beyond that. He’s just a working actor, happy to have a job, but not really experiencing anything beyond the work. He just doesn’t have anything to say. The majority of the article is quotes from other people talking about his “simplicity” (which is code for “stupid”) and his rugged-ness (which is code for “he’s straight”).

Details photos of Sam courtesy of Details online.