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    Gina Carano may do more acting after 'Haywire'

    BERLIN (AP) โ€” Mixed martial arts star Gina Carano says she may be back for more acting after taking the lead in Steven Soderbergh's "Haywire" as a hard-kicking special operations agent.

    The 29-year-old Carano's Agent Mallory Kane squares off against a cast including Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender in the movie, which showed out of competition at the Berlin International Film Festival on Wednesday.

    "This was an incredible experience, and I think I can do a lot more, and now I understand how it goes a little bit," Carano told reporters.

    "I'd be lying if I said I never wanted to this again," she said. "It was a dream, I can't support myself in fight for ever and I know that, so maybe I can get something else going here."

    "It's a completely different life โ€” I found it really interesting the adrenaline that you get filming," Carano said. "It's a more prolonged adrenaline than, say, fighting, which is a lot more harsh. You have to get it right on the first take in fighting."

    In the film, Carano's Mallory works for a private contractor that performs secret missions for the U.S. government.

    Her latest requires her and her team to rescue a Chinese journalist who'd been kidnapped and was being held captive in Barcelona โ€” a mission that appears to go off as planned, but afterward she finds she has been set up.

    Carano performed all her own stunts in the movie, but said that "I didn't knock anybody out ... really nobody got hurt."

    And how did Fassbender, who previously starred in "300" and "Centurion," find the experience?

    "I found out that I got my ass kicked better than I kick ass," he said.

     

    22 comments

    • none  •  3 mths ago
      Gina Carano is hot, no doubt, but this movie sucked. It is easy to see how bad when you put her up against the likes of Michael Douglas and Michael Fassbender. The movie sucked bad.
      • Sarah H 3 mths ago
        Agree on both counts.
    • HQD  •  Fremont, California  •  3 mths ago
      Would love to see her in "Expendables."
    • S.E. Entertainment  •  3 mths ago
      She was hot.... the movie was not
    • Robert  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      cynthia rothrock did it and she never fought and really was not that pretty, but she was really flexable
    • D3  •  3 mths ago
      movie SUCKED as did her acting - outside of the fights, she SUCKED and if she's going to suck that much and that bad she should go into porn .....
      • Brian 3 mths ago
        D3, Be carefull she'll track you down and beat you so bad you're Mama won't know you.
      • Steve 3 mths ago
        She can beat on me any day!
    • John D  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  3 mths ago
      wow...i'm amazed by the number of really negative comments directed at ms. carano and her film...i just saw the flick and thought she played the most believable and physically resourceful female 'action hero' in a long time...she's got a good mix of charles bronson swagger and lauren bacall sass.....now, the film was a bit unevenly paced, but the action scenes were wildly choreographed and grittily 'real', and ms carano was an engaging lead...i know it wasn't 'citizen kane', but #$%$ give the girl a chance, people...
    • Rodney  •  3 mths ago
      Is this new movie going to be called "Gina gets gang banged Vol. 1" by Digital Playground?
    • TJD  •  3 mths ago
      ....and next time she can do her own voice....
    • Steve  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      I didn't see this movie but from the comments below, it must have been horrible. Let me just make a comment on women and MMA. I've been doing MMA for years and she is a great fighter but I think we've gotten over the 1970s idea that martial arts makes you indomitable. Also, if you want to make anybody, especially a woman, fighting several guys at once, she better be genetically enhanced or have some mystical powers. Give me Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Milla Jovovich from Resident Evil any day.
    • Albert  •  3 mths ago
      Thank good she's hot, because she sucks at acting!! I know what she is probably good at sucking, and I know why she's in movies and I'm not.. I'm sorry, but if she's not taking off her clothes, she might as well stick to fighting!! Just because you have the look, doesn't mean you have the talent..
      • Harry Balzonya 3 mths ago
        Don't sell yourself short, Albert. According to the bathroom walls, you're good enough at sucking to be in the movies.
      • Albert 3 mths ago
        Don't be mad, I usually don't spend as much time as you do in the bathroom, but I definitely have something you can suck on!!
    • B G  •  Houston, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      They brought a HUGE amount of Heavy hitters in for that film....alll HUGE Hollywood males leads....and it still tanked...you could tell by the commercial her terrible monotone acting was going to make for an awful ride...good looks or not!
    • Mike  •  Hampton, Virginia  •  3 mths ago
      A nice romantic comedy, something like, "He's Just Not That Into You, Now He Gets His A** Kicked"
    • John  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 mths ago
      That's like saying that bammy is going to do more presidenting. Ha!
    • An Honest Man  •  3 mths ago
      Ugh. Please don't.
    • Andre  •  Gary, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      I wouldn't mind seeing Gina Carano continue acting I just want to see her fine self in alots of action movies.
    • Tony M  •  3 mths ago
      Is it because her first move was sooooo gooooddd....
      • Bob 3 mths ago
        That was sarcasm, right? ;-)
    • Lakewoodrms  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Oh god no ! That was the worst movie I have seen in years. She should send me ten dollars
    • solo  •  3 mths ago
      I would never go see anything she makes. I find it funny how this society is all over Chris B for what he did, but crowd into the theaters and pay money to watch a woman in a film that depicts brutal assaults and DV on men. People are either dumb, sexists, liars or all three. And the "guys" that go see this stuff don't get it. They're still caught in the vaginal vortex, so all a producer has to do is have a woman show a little leg and they're off running with their tongues out and a dollar bill in their hands. Now that's a good puppet. Pathetic. Ask yourself this. If Gina and or Kate B. was wearing burlap pants and a long baggy t-shirt in their movies, would you still go? If the answer is no, you're caught in the vaginal vortex and need freedom.
      • LonnieX 3 mths ago
        somebody needs a hug...
      • Derek 3 mths ago
        Mommy issues?
      • solo 3 mths ago
        Ah, I see you boys are still wearing your , "will jump through hoops for a piece of kotex holder" sign around your neck. Still drawing a red S on your pajamas? Still caught up so deep in the vaginal vortex, you can't tell right from wrong? Hey, don't blame me, I can say no to a woman without fear. Too bad you guys can't. For shame and you want to call yourselves "men". LOL!!!
    • Brett  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      didn't this movie bomb? who's looking for her in another movie?
    • CalGal  •  3 mths ago
      Enjoyed her & Fassbender....the movie, not as much.
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