Lou Ferrigno recently sat down with I Am Rogue managing editor Jami Philbrick to talk about his upcoming role in The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power. But in that conversation, you know a comic fan would have to ask a few questions about The Hulk.
Ferrigno famously played The Hulk with actor Bill Bixby as David Banner in the television seriesThe Incredible Hulk from 1978 to 1982. Ferrigno was more recently called upon to voice the roars of The Hulk for the first Avengers film.
Ferrigno revealed his connection to the beastly character.
“I know how The Hulk thinks and feels. I’m glad they let me do the voice in the last Avengers because — you can’t compare CGI to the human Hulk, but with the better quality of CGI also with the voice, then The Hulk started to be believable. In the last Avengers, The Hulk was the best I’ve seen it. And also, he saved the day.”
Ferrigno said that his deep understanding of the character of The Hulk served him well when it came time to record the growls and roars of the biggest Avenger.
“It’s not easy to do, because at the time, when I did the voice, I have not seen the scene. So I had to improvise according to how The Hulk would be thinking. Be creative, with just a blank screen and two microphones in front of me. Then, when I saw the final product, I was excited. Because whenever they have a voiceover for a film like The Avengers, contractually you don’t know anything about the scenes. So I had to improvise.”
Ferrigno did reveal that he has not yet recorded voice for the next Avengers film because they have not yet contacted him.
Lou Ferrigno’s wife, Carla Ferrigno, has come forward with a story of her own about Bill Cosby’s shenanigans.
The former Playboy Bunny, and Lou Ferrigno’s manager, said on The John and Ken Show on Los Angeles’ KFI radio station that she was allegedly assaulted back in 1967.
“I am so upset. I’m literally shaking in my body from all of this,” Lou Ferrigno’s wife said before she began her story.
She said that after a breakup, she was invited by a man to meet Bill Cosby.
“What happened is I was Kentucky on vacation to see my family. I got back to LAX and this man, maybe 30’s, he came over to me and said he would love to have my phone number and take me to dinner sometime.”
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Ferrigno continued, “He called me about a week later and we went to dinner. We had a very nice time. Very nice man. And then he said to me after dinner, ‘My close friend is Bill Cosby and I was wondering if you might want to go to his house.’ I said, ‘Sure’. So I went over there with him. His wife was there and he was there. Camille. I can’t remember anyone’s name anymore, but I remember hers. I will never forget her.”
She continued, “We were there not even 10 minutes and Bill suggested we go the movies. He talked to me a lot at the movies. I was uncomfortable with that because his wife was there. But he was funny. He was fun.”
After the movie, Lou Ferrigno’s future wife says it got serious fast.
“So [after the movie] it was suggested we go back to his house to play some pool. And I loved that idea. I was the pool bunny at the Playboy Club. I was very good at pool.”
However, Ferrigno says that after they all got back to the Cosby house, Camille went to bed and her date, the mystery “friend” of Cosby’s, disappeared. Then it got awkward.
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She continued, “Things really seemed odder now. We kept playing. Bill beat me, and just as I was ready to put the pool cue down he came forward at me. I thought he was reaching for the pool cue. But he came at me and grabbed me in such a powerful way. Grabbing me. I had never been treated so roughly and he pulled me hard to him, so hard.”
She added, “And then kissed me so hard, right in the mouth. No one has ever been that physically violent with me. I was stunned. I was frozen. I took all my body strength and used both of my arms to stop him and push him away from me. He was so forceful.”
She said she directly confronted him, saying, “What are you doing?’”
“He said, ‘What’s your problem?’ And I didn’t know what to say. I said, ‘I’ve never been kissed by a black man before.’ And he said, ‘How was it?’ and I said, ‘Just the same.’”
“He glared at me and in this very mean tone said, ‘Obviously it isn’t, or you wouldn’t have made that comment.’”
Then things got scary for the future Mrs. Lou Ferrigno.
She said, “I just ran. I just took off down the hallway, and I saw my friend show up in the hallway, I knew right then, that he knew, he knew why he was bringing me here.”
Ferrigno demanded that the man take her home and she claims she hasn’t told anyone since, except for a friend who didn’t believe her.
What do you think of Lou Ferrigno’s wife’s accusations against Bill Cosby? Do you think Bill Cosby could have done these things?
Lou Ferrigno’s wife this week accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Carla Ferrigno told the Daily Mail that the assault occurred in 1967 when she was a teenager working as a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Club.
Lou Ferrigno is an actor and former bodybuilder who is best-known for his role as The Hulk in the 70s TV series The Incredible Hulk. Ferrigno married Carla Green in 1980, his second marriage. The couple have three children together.
Carla Ferrigno told the Daily Mail that she met Cosby through a man who had taken her to dinner and later asked if she would like to meet the comedian. She then attended a movie with Cosby, his wife, and the man. She said that after the movie the group retired to Cosby’s home, where the alleged assault took place.
Ferrigno recounted that she was left alone with Cosby and that he grabbed her “roughly and pulled [her] hard to him.” She said that Cosby then kissed her “right in the mouth.” Ferrigno said that after words were exchanged she ran out of the room and down a hallway, where she found the man she had dinner with. She believes that the man knew what had happened and had in fact brought her into contact with Cosby for that specific purpose.
Ferrigno said that she had never told anyone, not even her husband, about the incident until now. She said that she feels “blessed” that things didn’t go further and that she was “smart to get away.” Ferrigno said that her husband didn’t want her to come forward, but that she did to set an example for other women and to be “one more nail in the coffin” for Cosby.
In the past few weeks several women have come forward with new sexual assault allegations against Cosby. Most recently former model Janice Dickinson stated that Cosby raped her in 1982.
These new allegations add to older allegations from women who said they were sexually assaulted by Cosby. In 2006 Cosby settled a civil lawsuit filed by a Andrea Constand, who alleged she was drugged and groped by the comedian.
Cosby has continued to deny all of the accusations. Last week the comedian’s representatives released a statement calling the allegations “decade-old” and “discredited.” The statement was later updated to specify that it did not refer to Constand.
Earlier this week an upcoming TV show starring Cosby was cancelled by NBC and Netflix announced that the release of Cosby’s latest comedy special has been delayed indefinitely.