Q&A w/ Cody Deal of SyFy’s Almighty Thor

SyFy’s upcoming made-for-TV movie, Almighty Thor, hits the network on May 7th. Produced by The Asylum, as major fans of the SyFy network and their awesome programming (what up Battlestar Galactica), we were psyched to hear about the new TV flick. We sat down to chat with the star, Cody Deal. He’ll be playing, as you’ve probably guessed, Thor.

Scope out the Q&A, and tune in to SyFy on May 7th.

1. You’ve got the lead as Thor in SyFy’s “Almighty Thor”, but you’re also in a more comedic short film, “Louder Than Words”. What’d you enjoy most about each of those projects?

The growth in each one. Just like in life, you develop with steps. I remember shooting Louder Than Words, the first short film I had ever shot, and how unready I felt. The exact same thing with Thor. There were many moments in production where I felt I just wasn’t quite capable. But I acted in spite of that fear and ended up on top. I am happy to be doing this for a living.

2. When you nailed the lead in “Almighty Thor”, it was after you had auditioned for the lead role not just in “Conan the Barbarian” and Starz’s “Spartacus” series, but also Marvel’s “Thor” movie – did you see your Thor as a combination of the three, or was there a single, particularly strong influence on your performance?

Every hero is different, because they come from different backgrounds, places, and sometimes eras. My ultimate objective was to make Thor relatable to an audience, so I gave him many weaknesses and many obstacles. I didn’t want to see a god with no challenges. I wanted to see a god who doubted himself, doubted his greatness, felt love, lost love, gets hope, loses hope, and so on. I wanted to create a character that had many colors.

How do you make a god relatable to an audience? By making him experience what we experience… we, too, doubt our greatest abilities, and I feel Thor’s story runs parallel with our own stories. We all are trying to reach out and become our greatest selves. Thor’s story gives us hope – that is my goal anyway.

3. Stunts, stunts, stunts. What were your favorites to perform [and] what sort of training did you get?

Stunts were amazing. When you hear an actor say that they did all their own stunts, that is only partially true. Very rarely does an actor LITERALLY do all of his own stunts. I would be proud to say that I did all of my own, but given that I had no choice, I kind of was forced to do all of my own! *laughs* I actually enjoyed that.

I wanted what was best for the production, and in fact, one of our stunts went completely wrong when I was doing wire work. I was shot up 20 feet in the air and the wire snapped about 10 feet on my descent, and unfortunately if the small pad we hit wasn’t there, I would have a shattered knee and maybe worse. I was very lucky that day. I also fell on the concrete scraping up my arms and face. I was a good sport, however, and the crew was ever-supportive with my well-being.

In fact, our director, Christopher Ray really shunned away from a lot of stunts after that point in fear of me getting hurt… He was such a great guy to work with.

The Swordmaster, Dan Speaker, and I trained for only a week before production, and actually for free. He is a lot like me and cared more about the overall performance of the film than the cash. Because of our dedication to work together for a minimum of 3-4 hours a day had created possibilities of Thor seamlessly wielding double swords, which I find any Thor fan to be pumped about, seeing the God of Thunder throw down with swords before he comes across his Milljnor.

4. You’ve also got another superhero movie coming up, “SuperSeeds”, where you play the bad guy. What’s happening with that, and did you spend hours perfecting the perfect super-villain laugh?

Superseeds is like a Superbad, but with super powers. It’s a funny script, very well written by writer/director Kholi Hicks, who is amazingly talented. He’s just beginning to get some great things underneath his belt, and has great vision and a way with the lens.

I play Mark Hardon, your typical A&F poster boy, who tends to get everything he wants, and has an uncanny ability to penis-pun you to death. I mean, he is relentless. He isn’t your typical jerk, because he beats you more with his words than this fist, although he does develop superpowers that can pulverize anyone. But it’s not your jerk badass, but a smiley, cocky, arrogant A&F boy, always having always having a smile on his face. He’s a real cool dude, and although no one really likes him in the story, secretly, I think you just want to be him. *laughs*

I really hope Seeds gets picked up because it’s got a great unknown cast and director behind it and everyone in that film should be known to the public. They are all great people, and super funny, and I was happy to be part of a fun production, as shoe-string budgeted films are like family.

5. Almighty Thor meets Marvel’s Thor in a dark alley. Who walks out? Your Thor, right?

I’d like to be the tough guy and say, ABSOLUTELY hands-down, my Thor does, but it depends when each might meet. If my Thor meets Hemsworth’s Thor when Hemsworth is cast down to earth and has little power without Milljnor, then I’d say that Almighty Thor would take the upper-hand and beat the living daylights out of him.

However, if in the end, both are at full height of their power, I’d say that Hemsworth’s Thor would prevail, simply because he has possessed his powers much longer than my Thor. Almighty Thor is about a god finding his greatness for the very first time, an origin story, where as, Marvel’s Thor is more about a powerful god finding his true strength, which is his humanity. It would be a battle of the ages!

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