After winning Mr Universe, Park was offered a starring role in Hercules. This led to six movie roles. In 1952 he began the Reg Park Journal, which capitalised on the Reg Park name, transforming it into a brandname for training courses, weights, posing trunks and T-shirts. What impresses me throughout the interview is Park's singular self-confidence. I have never thought about that.
Arrogance is ignorance.
I'm just grateful for the quality of life I've experienced and the beautiful people who have come into my life. If you don't put a value on yourself, no one else is going to do it for you. Park gives me an example. In 1965 a friend introduced me to a Austrian kid who admired me. The kid wanted me to bring him out to South Africa if he won the Mr Universe title.