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Raye Hollitt
An interview w/ TV Guide
TV GUIDE October 28, 1989
The Scoop – Jane MarionZap
Why She’s Not Saying, ‘Coffee, Tea or Milk?’
“The guys from Samuel Goldwyn Television just freaked out over THE MUSCLE,” says Raye Hollitt of her reception at a casting call for the syndicated series American Gladiators.
Hollitt’s on-screen handle is Zap. Zap as in “someone who is like lightning striking. It’s in and out real quick, but it does extreme damage,” she says. Somehow it seems an appropriate moniker for the high-school prom queen, raised in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Hollitt once planned on exercising her muscle in another way – she wanted to be a flight attendant. “I made it down to their training camp, and they [didn’t give me the job] because at 5-feet-6 you have to be something like 120 pounds. I was heavier because of THE MUSCLE.”
THE MUSCLE fully developed after high school. Hollitt dated a bodybuilding bouncer who encouraged her to try out for amateur weightlifting contests. After three months of lifting, she captured the crown in a local competition and moved on to conquer California, where she won the Miss Los Angeles title. She now works out two hours a day, seven days a week and weighs in at a very solid 150 pounds.
“People say, “How do you stay so pretty?’ I’m like, ‘Am I supposed to be ugly because I have muscle?'”
Hollitt wants to make one thing perfectly clear (and we’ll be sure to listen): she’s not just a woman with a bulging bicep who can bench press up to 275 pounds. She’s a legal aide, a professional trainer and a serious actress who would like to follow in the footsteps of former “Mr. Olympia” Arnold Schwarzenegger. Aside from a few bit parts in such flicks as “Penitentiary Ill” and “The Impostors,” her biggest part to date has been in “Skin Deep,” playing one of John Ritter’s lovers.
Her first love, though, is still bodybuilding. She explains her passion: “A man can drive a Ferrari and work his butt off to get that Ferrari, but once he gets out of it, you don’t know what he’s got. A person can work out in a gym and be very nice and muscular or toned and have a very nice face, and you’re going to be recognized for the dedication you put into it.”
“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)
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