Gina Carano gets physical with some of the hottest guys in Hollywood
Written By Unknown on Sunday, January 22, 2012 | Sunday, January 22, 2012
That's the lesson Gina Carano's costars learned whereas they were filming Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire." in the end, Gina Carano is not just another new face during a Hollywood action thriller. She's a former mixed martial arts star, who is creating her movie debut in Soderbergh's latest flick, that opens Friday.
"I ought to be physical with a number of the most well liked guys in Hollywood," GinaCarano, who tussles with Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender within the film, told individuals at the BlackBerry-sponsored Cinema Society screening in the week.
Fassbender, above all, was the recipient of a vase to the face when the 2 were filming a fight scene and he accidentally KO'd GinaCarano.
"When Fassbender slammed my head into the wall, that is the solely time I went black," Gina Carano, 29, said concerning the shoot, throughout that she conjointly reportedly knocked out a stuntman. "And then I slammed a vase right into his face when he wasn't expecting it."
"He did not get cut," Gina Carano clarified, before adding, "maybe a trifle bit."
McGregor, for his half, said he conjointly emerged "sore" from his scenes with Carano however known as the fight scenes "good fun."
But Tatum, whom she describes as "like a bro," is one actor Carano says she would not wish to fight in real life. "I'd in all probability wish to choke him out real fast," she said. "Because he is really terribly athletic."
Gina Carano Return to MMA?
Gina Carano has officially retired from MMA however says she hasn't dominated out a come back. to arrange for the role as a Black Ops agent in "Haywire," she worked with a Hollywood stunt crew and attended a two-month coaching camp with a former Israeli intelligence operative.
According to Soderbergh, it had been his intention to possess Carano who could be a 5-feet 8-inches tall and 143 pounds. -- instead of one in every of her male costars, be the toughest character within the film.
"There was one thing transgressive concerning having the girl being the one who is attacked 1st," Soderbergh recently told Sports Illustrated.
"There's form of, in movie terms, a preferred conception that girls are weaker than men which the sole approach that they'll triumph during a hand-to-hand scenario is that if they somehow have a plus from the start. [Carano's character] is attacked in an unprovoked manner and has got to work her approach into winning the fight. With somebody like Gina, you'll pull that off and have it's believable. she will be able to extremely break you in 0.5."