“It can be like this, up and down,” says Dýri Kristjánsson, who lives a double life, just like other superheroes such as Superman and Batman. During the day, he is an employee of Kaupþing’s asset management, wears a suit and doesn’t show much, but at night he changes his mode and turns into the superhero Sportacus in LazyTown. Saving Stephanie and Ziggy from Robbie Rotten and gets kids to eat healthy food and exercise.
“I was called a few years ago when Magnús Scheving was injured and had booked himself for several entertainments. They send me and it went very well,” says Dýri, who has also performed high-risk jumps for Magnús in the popular TV series as stunt double. Dýri is not unfamiliar stretching himself on all sides because he practiced gymnastics for seventeen years with good results.
And Dýri believes that gymnastics had taken him as far as possible. He had traveled all over the world on competitive tours and finally got a place at the University of Minnesota where he could study and practice his sport. “But the possibilities seem to be endless and being Sportacus is a nice change from the computer screen,” says Dýri, who can tolerate a few good-natured taunts from his colleagues. “Yes, I am sometimes called Sporty and if you get extra sauce on top of the meat, you are sometimes asked if Sporty can eat like that,” says Dýri and laughs, obviously not taking such things too seriously.
The LazyTown gang has just returned from Philadelphia where they had fun at the Sesame Street theme park. According to Dýri, they broke all spectator records, with over twelve thousand people coming to see them entertain. “It was a lot of fun and we took part in two parades,” says Dýri, adding that he finds it great fun playing for the children, seeing them jump and dance and have fun in the costumes of the main characters.
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