‘Shots Landed!’ UFC’s Conor McGregor Relives ‘Intense’ Fight Scenes in ‘Road House'
Conor McGregor's experience in the Octagon came in handy for his acting debut.
After fighting some of the best fighters in the world for the last decade, the former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight Champion's crosshairs are on show business for the moment, where he takes up a role in Doug Liman's 'Road House'.
The film premiered on Mar. 8 at the SXSW Festival and will be available to stream on Prime Video on Mar. 21. The Road House remake has kept 'The Notorious' busy as he grows impatient waiting for the UFC to send a contract for his next fight.
Until then, the sidelined McGregor had to make due in the movie, claiming he got some hits in while filming Road House.
"There was a few hidings dished out for sure. We had a couple of fights on set. Shots landed for sure," McGregor said in a recent interview with 'Black Girl Nerds'.
"There was one of them I hit, got one of the stunt doubles, I hit him with a knee. I jumped in with a knee, his elbow hit my knee and I deadened the leg. I spun around. Then threw a spinning back kick to the body, he went down. I thought they were gonna use that."
In a separate scene, McGregor even recalls hesitating before kicking a stuntman in the face.
"He took a few licks. I was getting told, 'Hit him! Hit the guy, it's what he's paid for!' I'm on the boat and I actually kick him in the head. He said, 'Kick him!' I'm saying, 'What the f***?' You know, this is Hollywood, let's do it."
Through and through, the movie industry might not be 'as real as it gets' like the UFC's motto, but the fighting superstar draws comparisons to both worlds, citing acting in some aspects is more difficult than MMA.
"It is an intense game," McGregor said of the acting experience. "It's a lot more intense than I anticipated. In fact, fighting is easy to it. You show up for a fight, you're here, there for an hour for training. You go home, you rest, you sleep, you get a nap. You wake up, you go again.
"On the movie set, you're going and you're going and you're going and it's a lot more unpredictable. It's a lot more wild. You want to get that craziness out in it. So, it was a tough one for me, but I stuck with it and got through it."
Conor McGregor would even go on to say that, "Fighting is easier than making a movie," the UFC star told SI on Wednesday. "Making a movie is hard. My body is sorer than after making the movie than any fight. I was surprised to be honest."
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