<p class="title">Actor David Harbour says he never imagined he would go on to become an action star.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During his speech at the CinemaCon, where he was feted with the Action Star of the Year award, Harbour said Harrison Ford-starrer "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" was one of the first movies he watched in the theatre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I saw the movie 14 times in a theatre, and my grandmother put up with that because she liked the air conditioning," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to Entertainment Weekly, the "Stranger Things" actor then gave a shout-out to all the action stars who were present at the event.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to "Die Hard", another favourite of the actor, Harbour said, "I never thought I'd be an action star! I started my career off as a villain, and usually you kind of remain a villain."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I thought I'd always be on the Alan Rickman side of the equation, saying, 'You think you can handle us, Mr Cowboy?' Or something. And I can easily say now, 'Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er!'" he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Harbour is set to star as Hellboy in Neil Marshall's reboot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film, which also features Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim, and Thomas Haden Church, is slated to be released in the US on Friday.</p>
<p class="title">Actor David Harbour says he never imagined he would go on to become an action star.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During his speech at the CinemaCon, where he was feted with the Action Star of the Year award, Harbour said Harrison Ford-starrer "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" was one of the first movies he watched in the theatre.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I saw the movie 14 times in a theatre, and my grandmother put up with that because she liked the air conditioning," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to Entertainment Weekly, the "Stranger Things" actor then gave a shout-out to all the action stars who were present at the event.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Referring to "Die Hard", another favourite of the actor, Harbour said, "I never thought I'd be an action star! I started my career off as a villain, and usually you kind of remain a villain."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I thought I'd always be on the Alan Rickman side of the equation, saying, 'You think you can handle us, Mr Cowboy?' Or something. And I can easily say now, 'Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er!'" he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Harbour is set to star as Hellboy in Neil Marshall's reboot.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film, which also features Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim, and Thomas Haden Church, is slated to be released in the US on Friday.</p>