In the world of Mixed Martial Arts, Randy Couture has done it all. He is a three time UFC Heavyweight Champion, a member of the UFC Hall of Fame, he’s done announcing for the UFC, he has opened his own chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture which is also the same name of his popular clothing line, he’s even retired and come back to beat “The Maineiac” Tim Sylvia for his championship title.
Couture is now taking full advantage of the opportunities that have come from his accomplishments and popularity in MMA. He is now making his mark on the world of entertainment. He is currently taking on the role of Sargon in the newly released DVD “The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior”, the prequel to 2002 “The Scorpion King” in which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson starred in.
In this role Randy – normally seen as the good guy in most of his fights – plays a nasty general who eventually becomes king but looks to become something more than human.
“You kind of have to find in yourself that character. Visualize yourself that character; visualize yourself as that person,” Couture said in a phone interview, “these experiences are a tribute to some little part of you that could see yourself acting out, being that way to be able to portray the character accurately and kind of tell the truth in some ways and that is always the challenge I think with acting.”
Although he liked the role there were two specific parts in this film which concerned him, “One was the love scene. It was my first kind of interaction like that in a movie and the second was at the end of the movie where I basically die and you see people die on film all the time and you kind of want to pull it off, you don’t want it to be corny and kind of over the top.”
His transition to acting has been well received by his fans of fighting, and Couture says that due to the ability to be disciplined and focused that many athletes’ posses, it makes for a good transition. “I have been coached in one sport or another my whole life and you have to take direction and kind of listen to what you are being asked to do and then hopefully be able to react to that,” he said.
But Couture’s main love is still fighting and says that at 45 he realizes that he can’t to it his whole life. With all the projects he is involved in, he would drop it all in preparation for a fight, which also goes for the possibility of fighting the man many consider to be the toughest fighter in the world: Fedor Emelianenko.
“Once that fight is real and signed on the dotted line everything else will go away, nothing else will exist except for getting ready for Fedor. Ill train for him and prepare for him like I have all my other fights so it will be a 10 week no-nonsense training camp. Not too much will get in the way of eating, sleeping and training for that fight once it’s real.”
“I like fighting, I didn’t set out to fight to kind of be a celebrity or any of those things either,” he said, adding that he will apply himself the same way into acting, “we’ll see what happens.”
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