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Gina Carano Will Kick Your Ass and You Will Say Thank You

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (55)



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If you’re not familiar with Gina Carano, welcome to the club. Up until I saw the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, I’d never laid eyes on her. But when I saw it, it was like having a breath of fresh air knocked out of me. She’s a female action star who looks like an action star instead of some lithe supermodel turned actress who looks like most of the stunts would in reality shatter her waifish arms into bone splinters. So captivated by her in her mixed-martial arts matches, Soderbergh actually built an entire action movie around her, one in which she hands both Charming Potato and Michael Fasschlong their asses.

Carano is real and — bonus — she’s really beautiful. Also, she could break you. And while I have not yet seen the movie, I’m impressed with Soderbergh’s decision to do what no major Hollywood directors has dared to do: Find a female Jean Claude Van Damme, a woman capable of realistically making it rain down ass whoopings.

That she looks as good as she does in the images from this GQ photoshoot is nothing but gravy.

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Comments

Charming Potato? LMAO. More like Charmless.

Posted by: Mark at January 9, 2012 8:35 PM

Youtube this gal .... she's an MMA fighter, she's the real deal. I can't wait to see this movie.

Posted by: handy_man at January 9, 2012 8:48 PM

GREAT THUNDERATION.

I SAY AGAIN: GREAT THUNDERATION.

Posted by: Soulless Merchant of Fear at January 9, 2012 8:48 PM

Just don't Youtube the Chris Cyborg fight. Not pretty.

Posted by: Sean at January 9, 2012 8:57 PM

Warning: You will watch this Gina Carano .gif for several hours.

http://www.gifbin.com/982755

Posted by: aidan at January 9, 2012 8:59 PM

To all those who said she's "thick" or she's not pretty (enough to be a movie star): You are INCORRECT.

Whether or not she can act, even passably: we'll see, I guess...

Posted by: MM at January 9, 2012 9:02 PM

First thought: "Goodness she's very boobular."
Second thought: "I'm not sure 'boobular' is actually a word."
Third thought: "It's really fun to say though, maybe I could make it happen."
Fourth thought: "At last! A proper female action star - I'm really looking forward to this film.
Fifth thought: "'Boobular' is going to be the name of my band. And child.

Posted by: Leelee at January 9, 2012 9:03 PM

Hmm, just noticed I seem to have gleefully abandoned the whole quotation mark theme I had going about half way through. It is two in the morning though. Frankly I'm starting to believe that Boobular was the fifth, most under appreciated Golden Girl. Please, someone, let me sleep.

Posted by: Leelee at January 9, 2012 9:09 PM

YES, exactly. She looks like an athlete, and I'm excited for this movie!

Posted by: jzhz at January 9, 2012 9:12 PM

So she is the new Rhona Mitra.

Posted by: MRod at January 9, 2012 9:16 PM

The new Rhona Mitra makes it sound like Rhona Mitra was ever a thing.

Posted by: OhLook at January 9, 2012 9:18 PM

The new Rhona Mitra makes it sound like Rhona Mitra was ever a thing.

Posted by: OhLook at January 9, 2012 9:18 PM

^BAZINGA!

Posted by: Senor Chang! at January 9, 2012 9:21 PM

Are the page hits down again?

Posted by: John G. at January 9, 2012 9:33 PM

I actually write for a mixed martial arts website, so we basically talk about this woman non-stop. It's funny, most of the people on that site think she is a cow. I strongly disagree with this. Good to know I'm not alone.

Posted by: DGDG at January 9, 2012 10:16 PM

I have totally had a crush on this woman since she was Crush on American Gladiators. Then I was all like, "she's gonna be in movies?!?" I'm really looking forward to seeing how Haywire turns out.

Posted by: wuggle at January 9, 2012 10:22 PM

Yes, please. This woman would like to spend some time between Carano's thighs. Give me an action movie with her and Tom Hardy, and I would not be responsible for my actions.

Posted by: Pants at January 9, 2012 10:33 PM

So excited for this...I really, really, really hope this is good and works out. I was watching Columbiana with mmy mom the other day and was so annoyed by how stupidly thin that lady was. I was over it.

Posted by: Candee at January 9, 2012 11:05 PM

So that lip biting gif I was at that show live. Every time her face was on the jumbo screen the crowd lost its mind. She was not fighting that night just at the show to help promote an upcoming fight. She has amazing charisma and presence. Her interviews have not been her strong point but there is a chance she could be a terrific action star.

Posted by: Gregg at January 9, 2012 11:11 PM

Just don't Youtube the Chris Cyborg fight. Not pretty.

Posted by: Sean at January 9, 2012 8:57 PM

In all fairness, nothing involving Chris Cyborg can be defined as pretty.

Posted by: Yay Crush! at January 9, 2012 11:24 PM

She was smart in her MMA career. Did it just long enough to get noticed, faced cans, and got the hell out as soon as she could. She is leaving the sport at the perfect time due to the level of competition is much better than she is and frankly, with Strike Force getting absorbed by Zuffa, chances are women's MMA is going back over to Europe with smaller paychecks and less coverage which is a shame. Plus now she doesn't have to worry about forfeiting percentages of her fight purses for making weight (she has a bit of a history at not doing that).

Posted by: Diablo at January 9, 2012 11:35 PM

I think she looks amazing. I'm planning to see Haywire just to see her.

Posted by: ArmaAngelus at January 9, 2012 11:42 PM

Cyborg not surprisingly just tested positive for stanozolol.

Diablo, she announced plans to return to the octagon months ago. Now that cyborg is on suspension, I could see an announcement putting her on the schedule soon. I think I remember White stating that they would keep the women's fights in Strikeforce.

Posted by: LwoodPDowd at January 9, 2012 11:57 PM

Looks dope. Let's hope Soderbergh can do for her, what he tried to do with Sasha Gray.
Taking a strong female character/personality and formulating a story around her so the world can revel in her.

Posted by: BrandonBombay at January 10, 2012 1:50 AM

I'd like her body. As in, to have it for myself...I mean as my own...ah fuck it, take it any way you like, you'll be right.

Posted by: Joker at January 10, 2012 4:29 AM

Quentin Tarantino tried to launch Zoe Bell, a stuntwoman, in Grindhouse, but I guess she never broke out. I met her in LA 'cause she came for a photoshoot at my mum's house, and she's really beautiful and sweet but she's built to severely kick your ass.

Posted by: marigi at January 10, 2012 4:50 AM

She really looks like Minka Kelly in that .gif doesn't she?

Posted by: Irina at January 10, 2012 5:00 AM

There's a YouTube video somewhere where she does a rear naked choke hold on a reporter. This is essentially a move where, as the 'victim', you wake up from a brief blackout, reclining on a woman's breasts. The incoming rush of blood after the blackout produces a sort of euphoria. Then you notice it's Gina Carano's breasts and you realise how effective a move it really is, because your head explodes.

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 10, 2012 5:42 AM

I really wish that they could make a great Wolverine movie that would rake in a bajillion dollars. Then! They could make an X-23 spin-off all about Laura Kinney's path to redemption. (She's Wolverine's clone... sort of. It's actually pretty great.)If you watch the Haywire trailer with the sound off, you can totally imagine her as girl!Wolverine in full berserker rage.

Posted by: Jenne Frisby at January 10, 2012 6:06 AM

I wouldn’t mind if they would put her as supporting chick. And then see how that will work and then cast her in future. But they put her as Lead character and then so many good actors who just play cameos and it just highlights that she is not actress. And it annoys.

When people see trailer they don’t know who she is. You have to look on the comments to read that she is some real fighter. And I don’t mind if she would star in some B-movies that will go straight to DVD. But they put her in Lead role with famous director and famous actors and it will fail.

She left me cold in trailer. I was rooting for "bad" guys. Because I know them and like. I donТt know her. And in trailer they tell me that this is good girl and I have to like her and root for her and hate those bad guys who want to kill her. But I really like bad guys more :)

Posted by: Shy at January 10, 2012 7:16 AM

I feel like she is another Jason Mamoa. When Haywire will bomb we will have another: "Rest in Peace Gina Carano movie career"

Posted by: 123 at January 10, 2012 7:19 AM

God I hope she can act! I'm really rooting for her.

And if this movie succeeds it might even start a trend where actresses put on a little weight for their action roles, ya know, instead of shedding it. That'd be nice!

Posted by: MurderBot at January 10, 2012 8:26 AM

LwoodPDowd- She ain't coming back if this movie is successful. Same thing happened with Rampage Jackson, once the movie deals in Japan started happening, getting paid to get punched in the head seemed pretty darn retarded.

And I agree...Dana White says that Strike Force with continue to have a Woman's category. It is just a matter of time before Strike Force goes the way of WEC, which Dana White pledge to keep separate and it got absorbed. As it is, the top talent in Strike Force has been raided.

Posted by: Diablo at January 10, 2012 8:48 AM

Not only is she hot, but as far as I'm concerned, she's still the Featherweight Champion, seeing as how Cyborg just got suspended for a year, and prior to Gina fighting that juicehead or a manish woman, she was tearing through every opponent.

Posted by: PissBoy at January 10, 2012 8:59 AM

You want to cast Wonder Woman? Cast Gina Carano.

Because she is obviously an amazon warrior princess sent to save us from ourselves.

Posted by: hater from siloam springs at January 10, 2012 9:09 AM

Hater from siloam springs,

Exactly what I was trying to say earlier via mobile. Hollywood/Warner Entertainment (or whatever the DC Comics property arm is at the moment), this is your chance to give a serious, respectable treatment to a world-recognized role model. Pay attention and try not to muck it up.

Posted by: Green Lantern at January 10, 2012 9:30 AM

Nice. Pity about the fake boobs.

Posted by: Keith at January 10, 2012 9:44 AM

Hey, Diablo, FYI, Rampage is still fighting, and in fact just fought in September. He took off about a year to film and promote A-Team and then was back fighting. Tito Ortiz also thought he could make a movie career out of MMA stardom. He was last in a film called "Zombie Strippers".

I love Gina Carano. She is beautiful and not 110 lbs and can fight. However, she is painfully awkward in interviews. She's like a 13 year old girl. I just don't understand how she'll manage to act in front of cameras without giggling.

Posted by: Nyltiak at January 10, 2012 10:09 AM

The husband and I are going to see this movie on date night. I'm not sure which of us is more excited. And it doesn't matter that I had never heard of her before; an action movie with a woman who can actually kick ass deserves my dollars. The supporting cast is just frosting on the cake of badassery.

Posted by: Reba at January 10, 2012 10:12 AM

It's awesome that hollywood is finally casting a woman with some muscle and not a rail thin anoxeric model. I have dated varsity athletes and recently, a blue belt in jiu-jitsu who really could make me (and literally every one of the guys I hang out with) tap out - and i've dated traditional waif models. Without a doubt, the more buff, toned womene are the more fun ones in bed (and out). They also really do look better naked.

Posted by: carolinajim at January 10, 2012 10:31 AM

I will hear not a detrimental remark about Zombie Strippers Nyltiak. Not a one.

Also, Gina is just bad-ass hotness in woman form.

Posted by: admin at January 10, 2012 10:58 AM

Be still my foolish ... heart.

Let's just hope she doesn't have to run in pumps and break a heel or something.

Posted by: mograph at January 10, 2012 11:17 AM

Hey, I wasn't saying anything detrimental about Zombie Strippers! I'm just saying that a B-movie about zombie strippers isn't exactly the hallmark of a burgeoning acting career. Even if your wife is Jenna Jameson. And he couldn't even get a better role than "unnamed bouncer" when his wife was the star!

Gina is bad-ass hotness, but seriously. Watch an interview. I fear for her ability to be in front of cameras without giggling.

Posted by: Nyltiak at January 10, 2012 11:19 AM

Nyltiak- I realize that Rampage is still fighting...barely. I personally think his career is done because frankly he has not improved his skill set and his chin is starting to get suspect. Same thing happened to Cro Cop.

I did a bad job at explaining my point. What I was trying to say is that Carano is trying to do is what Rampage did...go to movies in the hope to leave the fight game. It didn't really work out for Rampage but it could for Carano. Even if her movie career fizzles out, I highly doubt she will come back and be a force in the woman's division. She already has a history of difficulty with making weight. Taking time off is not going to make that easier.

Posted by: Diablo at January 10, 2012 1:33 PM

But... Rampage just fought for the title. And his next fight is the co-main on the big UFC Japan card. Hardly a downturn to his career.

I think Carano will be back as long as no one makes her fight Cyborg again.

Posted by: Nyltiak at January 10, 2012 1:46 PM

I really would like to see this movie. Not sure why it got dumped in January.

Posted by: Rum Cove at January 10, 2012 2:41 PM

Diablo...true she missed weight once, and had to get naked to hit 141 for another fight, but this could be due to her traditionally fighting at 145 (just like the men's division lines) but when EliteXC and then (folding into) StrikeForce realigned the wieght divisions for whatever reason so that she had to cut to 140. She typically walks around between 155 and 160 and that extra 5 pounds, at least from a former wrestler's standpoint, can be a motherfucker if you never had to do it habitually. All her muay thai fights were at 145.

Either way...I wouldn't mind seeing her back. True, the women's division's talent has grown geometrically in just 2 short years, but i think (hope) she can still fight. She never realt fought "cans". It was just that there wasn't really any decent competition as little as 2 years ago. Wonder how pissed she is having her only loss come at the hands of a juicehead?

Posted by: PissBoy at January 10, 2012 2:53 PM

I still remember the first time I saw Gina on TV.
My husband is a huge MMA fan so of course we spend many a weekend watching fights.
She totally blew away any thought I previosly had about female fighters. I remember when she spoke about her first trainer grabbing her lovehandles and saying "ooh baby you too fat!" She was smiling and proud to say it because she was now in good enough shape to have her first professional fight.
She's a bad ass. A gorgeous bad ass. I am still a little miffed about her hurting Fassbender though.

Posted by: daria at January 10, 2012 4:10 PM

Oh I agree Pissboy. If she is willing to comeback, I really hope she does. And the woman's division has developed in leaps and bounds. If I was in her shoes, I could have a career in films outside of the octagon, I would walk away from fighting. The physical toll alone makes it an easy decision. Not only that, even pay per view main event money isn't that great when you factor in how expensive running a camp is for the fighter.

And as a former high school wrestler, GOD I know how brutal that last little bit is. And my "cans" comment was a bit out of line.

Nyltiak- Rampage's title shot had less to do with were he is as a fighter in the ranks and more to do with UFC scrambling for a main event people would buy. Same is true with him head lining the Japan event...he is HUGE in Japan. I think he is clearly in the downswing of his career.

Posted by: Diablo at January 10, 2012 5:12 PM

Normally I'm not much for the rough stuff. As a guy I'll certainly take it if offered. Strictly a matter of preference.

That said she can break me in half and I'd die two happy halves of a man. Cue up the Masochism Tango!

Posted by: Harborwolf at January 10, 2012 5:25 PM

Those first two pictures and the .gif need a shrine, hymns and ritualistic orgies to celebrate their sheer awesome. Holy mother of mothers, this woman is beautiful.

On a side note, great big lumps of this comment section need to make their reappearance on the EE, otherwise I'd be really disappointed.

Extra points to Harborwolf for mentioning Tom Lehrer.

Posted by: Rooks at January 10, 2012 6:24 PM

She seems like a nice girl.

Posted by: logan at January 10, 2012 8:54 PM

I would let her punch me in the taint, thank her for it, buy her an expensive meal I really couldn't afford, hide in another room so she wouldn't have to look at me while she ate, then beg for another taint punch before she left.

What I'm saying is, she's pretty.

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