Triple M hosts spill on ‘odd’ interview with Steven Seagal

Media personalities who interviewed Steven Seagal in Sydney yesterday have opened up about their bizarre experiences.

Steven Seagal refused to hold his own microphone during a series of bizarre interviews he gave yesterday in Sydney.

The Under Siege actor did several interviews yesterday to promote An Evening With Steven Seagal which will be held in Sydney tomorrow night and Melbourne on Saturday.

Lawrence Mooney and Jess Eva from Triple M’s Moonman In The Morning show described their interview with the action star as “scary” and “odd”.

“We had 15 minutes with him. It was odd from the get-go,” Mooney said on air this morning.

“He was dressed in a Japanese kimono top, jeans, and there was a massive bodyguard there, a huge man.

“We went to hand him a microphone very early on and he goes, ‘I’m not holding that’.’”

Eva, added: “He did, he refused to hold a microphone!”

“I was frightened, it was scary,” Mooney said on Triple M.

A Triple M producer shared this on Instagram.

Steven Seagal in 1992’s Under Siege.

Moonman in the Morning: Jess Eva, Gus Worland, Lawrence Mooney and Chris Page.

News.com.au understands Max Markson, the publicist looking after Seagal in Australia, told media outlets that questions about sexual assault allegations levelled at the actor were strictly off limits.

The actor has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by multiple women including The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies and Arrested Development’s Portia de Rossi. Seagal has denied the allegations and has not been charged.

The Daily Telegraph’s Jonathan Moran also interviewed Seagal yesterday and described it as one of the “strangest” interviews he’s done during his 20-year career.

“Moments into the interview, he signalled a young Russian woman to scratch his right shoulder in a spot he clearly couldn’t reach,” Moran wrote. “She appeared to be a masseuse and there was a smell of Deep Heat, as if his shoulder was a trouble area.”

In An Evening With Steven Seagal, the actor will reportedly “talk all things martial arts, his secrets to his success and what’s next”.

Tickets range from $69 to $999 with the most expensive tickets entitling fans to front row seats, a photo with Segal, a T-shirt, lanyard, signed Steven Seagal memorabilia and the chance to submit a question prior to the event for the actor to answer on stage. Presumably all questions about the sexual assault allegations will be off limits then as well.

Steven Seagal considers Russian President Vladimir Putin a personal friend. Picture: AFP/ Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin