You don’t see each other for a year and when you get together, you pick up exactly where you left off. And that’s the way it was with Kevin.

He was also the funniest person I've ever worked with. Always joking and so self-deprecating. He’s got this great manly image, but he was excruciatingly funny.

He was so good looking, yet self-deprecating and selfless. I think he thought of his looks as a means to an end. It was work. It wasn't vanity. He will always be the ultimate guy for me. The perfect man.

He could do it all. If you watch the course of Hercules and Xena, you can see that. Every time I directed him as Ares, he was game to do anything.

No one can ever be him, but we can remember he never deviated. He always went for it. “Set the controls for the heart of the sun.”

He was sultry and sexy. Yet he could be self-deprecating. In a moment, he could go from threatening to funny and be totally believable. Kevin was like a fine wine that finally found the proper time to open the bottle.

Every time I met him, I thought, what a talented, amazing man. And he was such a humble, loving person as well.

I keep saying “is.” I think it’s because Kevin has never been part of my daily life; he’s part of my working life. And since we haven’t been working, I haven’t truly come to terms with the fact that he’s gone.

Ares started out on an episode of Hercules called “Ares” as a boiling pool of black goo. But that didn't last long. They realized they needed a real God of War. And if you were casting for a god and Kevin Smith walked in, could there be any doubt he'd get the job?

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