10 Things You Didn't Know About Alan Ritchson | Star Fun Facts

Alan Richton has been in the industry for some time and has put together an impressive list of television and film credits all of which played a part in shaping him as a performer fans likely remember him as Jack Reacher on Reacher Kevin Thad Castle on Blue Mountain or Hawk on Titans more recently he has been in one of the biggest movie franchises ever he stars in fastx the 10th Fast and Furious movie here are 10 things you probably didn't know about Alan richson he got his start on reality television more specifically he got his start auditioning for American Idol although only one audition seems to be floating around the internet anymore Richton actually auditioned for the series twice he reportedly auditioned for both season two and season 3 with only his last audition making it to air he was in the top 87 before he was cut during the Hollywood round he turned to acting soon after in a 2022 interview with parade Alan Richardson mentioned he ended up in the acting world because of his season three audition for American Idol sharing music was my first love singing was something I felt decent at and it felt like it just made sense to pursue that I had never thought about acting American Idol took me to Ella for the first time where I was exposed to acting I asked someone if they could help me get auditions and they did and I started working this was clearly a situation of having one door closing but another door opening as the saying goes but he told parade that he isn't planning to leave his more musical Ambitions behind him forever when asked if he still sings He said I don't sing very much there was a moment on Titans where I got to sing We Did a karaoke episode and it was a lot of fun to bring that back marrying the film and the music has always been a goal with even more roles on the horizon Richton just might achieve that goal in the future his first acting role was in Smallville he made his acting debut portraying Aquaman in four episodes of the Tom Welling LED superhero series Smallville the popularity of the Aquaman character in Smallville eventually led to a planned spin-off for the character however when the Aquaman series went to Pilot he was ultimately recast with former Green Arrow actor Justin Hartley stepping in for the role that said despite not playing Aquaman in live action outside of his tenure on Smallville Richton would eventually go on to reprise his Aquaman role and voiceover for the animated film Justice League the New Frontier which debuted in 2008. working on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a nightmare for him he voices Raphael in the live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series unfortunately things were rough behind the scenes and the actor told a story about the main Turtles actors being abandoned in a parking lot he said they wouldn't let us in the cars to go home the turtles they wanted to get the crew out of there to get them off the clock if they stayed they had to pay them if we stayed they don't we're sitting on our backpacks in an empty car park it's almost unimaginable that people would get treated this way on a professional movie set but it just goes to show that there are many things that take place behind the scenes that never see the light of day it's a shame things played out so poorly for richen but thankfully all of those rough days on set ultimately led him to be where he is now he went above and beyond for Reacher at this point no one should be surprised by the amount that goes into perfecting movie star's bodies rich and put on 30 pounds of muscle for the role of Reacher he spoke to Men's Journal about preparing his body for the role saying that he always keeps his body in shape because of the roles he's landed in the past however healthy for him was sitting comfortably at 205 pounds but Reacher needed him to reach a new level of Fitness I was grinding it out five days a week for the eight months that we had to prep that meant working out multiple times a day and eating 4 500 calories daily something that most mere mortals couldn't imagine having to do Richton also had to train for Reacher while filming another project to make a bad situation worse he had to do all of this during the pandemic saying the rules were very strict in Canada so there was no chance of getting out to train anywhere else to compensate he builds a home gym in his dining room exercised by himself and managed to go from 205 to 235 in preparation for Reacher and unbelievably impressive accomplishment he read 24 Reacher books to perfect his character in the series during a conversation with collider rich and revealed that he read about 24 Jack Reacher books to perfect his character for season one he said as an actor the first step that I take is to absorb as much material as I can that exists whether that's just the script or in this case I had 24 books to pour over my job was reading these books and it didn't feel like work at all I love the books and quickly became as big a fan as anybody doing this as rich and said really allowed him to have a comprehensive view of anything the character might do think or feel he had a part in Beowulf Richardson is uniquely credited as the character model for the animated character Beowulf and Robert semiki's 2007 animated film of the same title he did not serve as the voice actor for the movie instead that role went to Ray Winstone who was unlike most of the other voice actors in that their characters bore little physical resemblance to them this was because Beowulf's face builds and even much of his movements were actually based on those of richson which was a deliberate decision on the part of the director Robert semikis his directing debut in 2021 Richton made his feature directorial debut with the action comedy thriller dark web cicada 3301 featuring his Titans co-star Connor Leslie and Harley Quinn standout Ron funches he was a model Richmond briefly worked as a model as a result he modeled for a number of companies including Abercrombie and Fitch which led to him signing with vision Model Management a Los angeles-based agency having said that his modeling career did not consume much of his time and attention he met his wife at a ballet rich and married his high school sweetheart Catherine in 2006. he revealed to today that the couple met in ballet together the couple has three sons Callum Eden and Amory Tristan foreign [Music]

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Length: 6min 22sec (382 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2023