Zangief in Space?

Well, not exactly but I will be playing an astronaut named Luke Barger in the action space adventure superhero series called, "Major Ursus", for the newly formed BSS network. I've been describing the show as "Oz meets X-men meets Star Trek". I shaved off the classic Mohawk for the role but, wouldn't ya know, now it looks like pre-production for "Street Fighter Reunion" will be getting underway this spring while we're doing "Ursus". One of my co-stars, Frederic Heringes, the hunky bear actor who will be playing Luke's good buddy turned nemesis Roy Forrester on the show, has just informed me that the producers of a PBS documentary that he's doing have asked him to shave off his beard for their production so all the scenes between him and myself at NASA Headquarters will have to wait until his face fuzz comes back. Here I am, with all my hair grown back to play Luke in scenes with him and it looks like those will just have to wait until summer. Oh, well. I can still shoot my Luke scenes where he's living away from the world in his mountain cabin deep in the woods. I'll be wearing a long hair wig for those which means I'll be able to do those scenes and play Zangief on "Reunion" at the same time since the wig will cover Zangief's Mohawk. The flashback NASA scenes feature Luke with a full head of close cropped hair so I'll have to have grown all of that back after I shave off the Mohawk once again following the wrap of Season 1 of SFR. Sounds confusing but it's all pretty doable and I get to do two series at the same time.

Next up:

The state of my involvement as Zangief in the next Street Fighter Feature film. Stay tuned!