There's no point keeping it secret. My biggest fetish is for muscular women. Not like steroid monster bodybuilders, but really firm, toned fitness babes. If American Gladiators weren't already a childhood icon revamped for modern television, it's also a whole new slate of buff babes now that I'm old enough to appreciate them. They teamed up in groups of three for interviews, but with Stealth and Siren there, Militia hardly got any attention.
CraveOnline: What goes into choosing your gladiator names?
Siren: A lot of different things. We all try to come up with our own names, but I think by the end of training camp, I think we all have our own personalities and that's why we were chosen as gladiators, so we could fit into lots of different names. For me, Siren fit, but I could probably be five other things, but it's all representing a sexy character who's confident and powerful and strong, and that's going to come through.
Militia: The producers, like depending on your character, they kind of give you a name. That's what the producers say.
CraveOnline: What was training camp like?
American Gladiator: Militia
Stealth: That's all confidential. No, I'm just kidding. Training camp, for me especially, was kind of like basic training. We got up early. Our days ended long and we basically went to a stunt coordinator's house where they had a lot of the simulated events set up. We trained on each of the events. We worked with each other and worked against stuntmen, but we basically learned technique and how to use the equipment. After that, it was bringing all of our athleticism to the table. So it was great. I had a good time.
Militia: It was training, trying to get strength on each one of the events we have on the show, so that's mostly what the training was. They were trying to find the skill, what you were better in so every one can fit in one of the events.
Siren: I think honestly it was grueling because we were doing things that our bodies were not really used to doing, taking a lot of impact and blows and trying to do things like the rings and the wall and going over and over and over again. So we, in a sense, are true gladiators based on making it through training.
Militia: Exactly.
CraveOnline: Is there any acting involved?
Militia: Sometimes you have to save the acting to keep up with all the things you have to do. Whatever it is you're doing, the wall, sometimes you just have to concentrate and try to get to them. It's like no characters. The producers sometimes can tell you, "Come on, keep up your characters." If you're on the wall, you don't care. I'm trying to get to the person on this wall. We want to be the best. That's why we've been chosen.
Stealth: Our characters are extensions of who we already are, so when we say that we're not acting, we're just bringing out ourselves but bigger and better. So especially because we're all athletes, our game face comes on. So everyone thinks oh, this is a reality show and they're talking a lot of smack but when the whistle blows, the sport begins. That's what's real.
Siren: Yeah, I wanted to add the same thing. Just basically, our characters are just an extension of us but to the 10th degree. We have to really amplify ourselves. I think we actually tried to act in the beginning. When they said, "Okay, let's practice your character. We're going to put you on film and see what you can do." It was just horrible. We would just laugh at ourselves because we were trying too hard to be something when we were already ourselves and we just needed to be ourselves at a higher state, more amplified.