Yuri

When we first met him, Yuri was a professional bodybuilder: though not very tall (at 5' 8"), he towered over everyone else in the room and looked huge on camera. Fast-forward to the shoot in the Fall of '98: Yuri had lost several pounds, yet his screen presence stood strong, his laughter and his dancing no less than mesmerizing. We talked him into a second, more daring scene for the Summer shoot, but Yuri disappeared at the eve of production.