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Watchmen Director shock confession

Zack Snyder may been heading towards geek-deity status for directing the upcoming conversion of Watchmen, but in a recent interview at Radar, he revealed his murkier past…

As a jock…

It’s true. I’d been making movies since I was about 11. It was very Rushmore-ian. I needed the parts to be played by all sorts of characters, so I needed jocks and geeks alike. It was good that I had both in my camp. My senior year, I kind of quit sports after meeting this supercool bodybuilder named Jim Arden [who was a teacher at his school]. He had a big, gray beard and his hair in corn rows—I’d never come across anyone as eccentric. He had a gym in the basement of the school; I went and trained with him for about three years.

Now, we don’t have jocks, as such, in the UK, indeed that term is an old-skool slang word for any Scotsman… but still, we get the point – comics and sports shouldn’t mix.

You can read the full interview here.

I’m willing to bet however, than quite a few of you geeky types have a sporting achievement or two, so treat this like a confessional and tell us all…