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Gina Carano – more at ActionFest 2012, also featuring Cung Le & JJ Perry (*updated 4-20-12)

Chick Norris Award winner Gina Carano, speaks about authenticity in action films & more: – in a ReelzChannel video (Reelz.com) – in an interview with The Action Flick Chick -MTV (MTV.com, ActionFlickChick.com) – with JJ Perry & Cung Le, giving ten ways to make better action films (Movies.com) Then, Fight Director of the Year JJ Perry, expounds on his craft, as well as past & current projects. (ActionFest.com, Craveonline.com) Let’s begin with how you became an MMA fighter. I was just kind of going to college because that was what everybody around me told me to do. I didn’t have any passion and trying to find myself. I was dating a guy at the time who loved Bruce Lee. One night we were all hanging out drinking 40s, and he was like, “You know what? I’m gonna be done with this life. I’m gonna lose you if I don’t improve my life.” So he went the next day to Master Toddy’s Muay Thai. I would go and watch him. Finally, the Thai master to me, “Oh baby, you need to lose weight. You fat.” And I was like, “Oh God, like, okay.” I signed up for lessons with him, and five months later I found myself in San Francisco in a little tiny gym, kind of like a “Fight Club”-type of scenario. And I was fighting. Ever since I did that, I was just kind of addicted to it. Do you have go-to badass move? I was in a fight in high school, and I overhand-righted this girl because she started attacking me at a basketball game. My first ever fight! I’ve had professional fighters come up to me and ask me about my overhand-right. It just came so naturally. (…continued) (credit jr)

Interview & pics: Gina Carano further in depth on next movie, Wonder Woman, female action stars and more

FilmSchoolRejects.com spoke with Gina Carano, the recipient and inspiration for The Chick Norris Best Female Action Star Award, at ActionFest 2012. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. Not a problem. Film School Rejects, that’s an incredible name. Thank you very much, we do the best we can. That’s kind of how we operate, we appreciate films as if we went to film school and yet all managed to get kicked out before graduation. I like that. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about making the transition from MMA to film. Specifically, did you find it difficult to work within scripted fight sequences after coming from something as visceral and in the moment as mixed martial arts? Actually I found it, in a way, enlightening and freeing. It allowed me to do what I love to do without worrying about having to have a fight at the end of those two months of training. Instead it was more like choreography for a dance, but still letting me do what I love, and that was a ton of fun for me. It was a way for me to explore my passion without getting hurt or having to hurt someone else. It was beautiful actually. When you’re fighting in gyms, you have to spar all the time. Sometimes you’re better than your sparring partner, sometimes you’re worse, but you have to use a certain amount of control. I took that same mentality, “I’m not trying to hurt this person, I’m trying to work with this person.” It was an easy transition actually.   (continued …) (credit: swinjen, M1, & EoinA)

Gina’s Thoughts on Miesha Tate vs Ronda Rousey

The superfight Miesha Tate vs Ronda Rousey will take this place this Saturday March 3 in Columbus Ohio. This will be the first time a woman’s MMA fight headlined an major event.  Gina Carano gives her opinion in a radio interview with MMA weekly. Ronda Rousey is currently a 4 to 1 favorite however all of her wins have come within in the first 60 seconds of round one via armbar. Any predictions on who will win and by what time/round? Credit: jr Source: Bleacher Report

Gina Carano on Carson Daly

Gina Carano on Carson Daly show. Credit: p0d

Vote for Gina Carano on “Maxim’s Hot 100″ list of 2012

Let’s get Gina beyond her past score of #16 on this year’s list! Click the pic below to vote. . credit: pedro & poleaxed

Gina Carano Conan O’Brien Video

Here is the Gina Carano Conan Video from the Conan O’Brien show which aired January 19, 2012 on TBS.

Gina on the Opie and Anthony Show

Gina was on their Tuesday radio show: And here’s bonus clip featuring Gina chocking out a lucky guy from the show:  

Soderbergh on Gina’s voice alternation work

In an interview for Vulture magazine, director Steven Soderbergh clarified on what went into altering Gina’s voice in Haywire: That’s not really her speaking voice. We spent a lot of time in post working really hard on her voice, and we used every trick imaginable that’s used on records today — in the editing, in the pitch. We combined five different readings in one sentence. We wanted her to sound different — not like Gina, but like her character, Mallory Kane. So that took a lot of work, and we worked really hard on it. That was the point of it. Everyone under the age of 30 is terrified of Gina, but Mallory is someone new. This perhaps extinguishes the rumors that her voice was replaced with that of another voice actress.

Karyn Bryant and Bas Rutten interviews Gina Carano on Haywire, Kissing Actors, Returning to MMA, Cyborg

MMA H.E.A.T’s Karyn Bryant sits down with Gina Carano, and hears what she has to say about staring in her first film: Bas Rutten also talks to her briefly about Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos:

Gina Carano comments on voice alteration work for Haywire

There’s been much ado about Gina’s lines in Haywire being altered or replaced with another actresses voice. See 18:50 in the radio interview to see her response to these allegations:

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