At SpaceCon in San Antonio this weekend, I got an autograph from Olivier Richters. You may know him from Black Widow and Reacher, and in the upcoming Street Fighter movie he's playing Zangief.
And I'm telling you... he IS Zangief.
I didn't fully appreciate it until I saw him in person, but this guy is absolutely enormous. He's 7'2" tall, making him the second tallest person I've ever met. (Only Peter Mayhew edges him out at 7'3".) He stood up and just kept going... and going...
Then there are the shoulders. I swear they're over a yard wide. The muscles are unreal. The beard is on point.
I couldn't help myself. During the signing I told him, "You were born to play Zangief."
Seriously, look at this guy.
This photo is him standing next to John Cena, who is definitely not a small man at 6'1". And Richters makes Cena look average. The man is a mountain.
What a casting choice. They somehow found someone built exactly like a video game fighter.