Kevin Sorbo & Lucy Lawless:
Hercules and Xena,
TV's most pec-tacular duo.
(Special Year-End Double Issue: Best of 1995; Entertainers of
the Year)
Entertainment Weekly
29 December 1995
This year, Sorbo's Fabio-length locks and deadpan delivery snagged him both colossal Hercules ratings and a seven-figure movie deal (he'll star in Kull the Conqueror). It's a break-through, says the veteran commercial actor, that seemed centuries in coming. "I've paid my dues," sighs Sorbo, 37. "It's not like I was an accountant and all of a sudden I said, `Hey, I want a series.'" Much less one so popular that it yielded a spin-off starring Lawless, 27.
The kung fu-chopping actress says she "turned green" with jitters after learning Xena would get her own series, but she soon got comfy in those dominatrix boots. "I guess it's the culmination of 35 years of feminism," she says. "Women can be as badass as any man ever was."