Avatar star Sam Worthington has defended the buzz cut hairstyle he adopted for his upcoming film Clash of the Titans.
The 33-year-old Australian said he shaved his head as soon as he knew he had the part of the heroic Perseus.
He said: “I never looked at it in the sense of great mythology or anything like that. That was the reason I shaved my head, to be honest.
My mate said to me: ‘They didn’t have buzz cuts in those days’ and I said: ‘It ain’t a history lesson and they didn’t have winged f*****g horses either’.”
He also told Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun: “This is a romp, it is a friggin’ Saturday morning popcorn movie. I don’t have any illusions that we’re trying to say this is how Greek mythology was.”
Clash of the Titans also stars Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton and Liam Neeson.
The plot follows Perseus in his quest to stop the underworld and its monsters from conquering the Earth.
It will be released in March.
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