Like many NRL players, Justin Olam has regular calls from his family before games.

The Melbourne Storm centre gets the same questions his colleagues do such as "are you playing first grade this week" and "what time do you play".

Some families watch the game at home, others travel to watch their loved ones play but Olam's family, who are calling from back home in Papua New Guinea, have to make different plans.

Justin Olam's fearless style has caused some serious issues for opposition teams. AAP

"They will ask me if I'm playing – we don't have electricity back there so they have to go and buy petrol for the generator," Olam said.

This week the Storm published a picture on their facebook page of hundreds of people in PNG seated around a small television watching Olam, he is a big deal back home as very few players have made the NRL despite the nation's love of rugby league.

He saw those picture and smiled.

Back in his younger days he would have to walk 90 minutes or more from his home to the nearest television.

"This photo is in Port Moresby, my place is about an hour on a plane from there," Olam explained.

"It's far. But it's like that everywhere in the country."

While the Storm lost last week, Olam was a star in the first half scoring a try and setting up winger Josh Addo-Carr for a second in an electrifying first half.

After making a nervous debut last year, Olam has put aside the pressure of representing a nation and has come into his own in 2019 and PNG fans are loving every minute.

"It's always like that everywhere – one little screen and 200 to 300 people," Olam said.

"People watching are not from that area. Some people walk for 30-40 minutes. My place is ages away so I used to walk for 90 minutes to watch a game. You have to leave early too so you can get close to the screen.

"The atmosphere watching it back home, it's so different from live at a game, it's hectic."

Olam's first rugby league experience was as a child watching the last 10 minutes of the Storm's 1999 NRL premiership when PNG great Marcus Bai was on the wing.

"I was seeing myself," Olam said.

"I was like I'm going to play here, it's not that hard. I used to think like that.

"I didn't even get to play rugby early as my parents were too big on education and wanted me to go to university and whatever."

Back in PNG, playing rugby league is a far more challenging as not only do those in remote villages have to walk long distances to play games, they also need to stay upright against the brutal way they play the game.

"You don't get much coaching, just take the ball and run hard, tackle hard that's all," Olam said.

Olam's fearless style has caused some serious issues for opposition, such as when he scored his first NRL try running through Cronulla veteran Josh Morris and breaking his nose in the process.

Two weeks ago Olam broke his own nose while powering into an opponent, but it still hasn't slowed him down.

"He is a beast. I love watching him play," Teammate Felise Kaufusi said with his eyes lighting up.

"To see the power and intent that he runs with. He is like a pocket-rocket, it's like he is shot out of a cannon every time he runs it.

"He has got no self-preservation at all. He got a busted nose, he's carrying that but still has no cares in the world."

That wild background was a problem for Olam when he arrived at the Storm after starring with the PNG Hunters side in the Queensland Cup.

Olam is the first Hunters player to earn an NRL contract and he faced a painful first year adjusting to all the Storm's systems.

After each training he would get a collection of videos sent to his phone showing what he was doing wrong.

There was lots of them.

"The Storm didn't change that part of my game [the hard running]," Olam said.

"They give me other skills and upgraded things to make me smarter.

"The first year I came in I was doing everything wrong. I would get 20 to 30 clips of me doing everything against the system of the club.

"I was trying my best. I felt like I was doing it right but I wasn't.

"At first my mindset was different, I felt like they were attacking me but as time goes by I knew if I wanted to be part of the club I had to change.

"Now every day I go to the coaches and ask what they want of me. I ask my teammates. 'If you were in this situation what would you do?', and they give me their feedback."

While the Storm have made him smarter and more discipline, Olam will never change the spirit in which he attacks a rugby league game.

"My family tell me, 'Look you only have one nose' you should have a rest for a week or two," Olam said with a smile forming.

"I thought to myself, it's everything or nothing, I'm just going to have a go and if I break it that's all right – at the end of the year I'll get some plastic surgery."

Melbourne Storm host Gold Coast at AAMI Park on Sunday at 2pm.