Kurt Angle talks playing Fedor-based character in Warrior
by Zach Arnold |
9/13/11 9:17 AM |
source: fightopinion.com |
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Kurt Angle talks playing the Fedor Emelianenko based character in Warrior.
“Fedor, he always has this smile on his face, you don’t know if he’s mad or happy. I can tell you this — when I was casting for [Warrior], they tried at least 48, 49 different fighters and actors. They couldn’t get the right look and if they did the person was full of tattoos, so thank God I was at the right place at the right time.
I was near the end of the line where they were going to just settle for somebody. I came in, I blew them away with my sparring, my technique, my striking, and my takedowns, thank God.
"Then ... I knew where they were going when they said we want you to be a Russian fighter named Koba that shows no emotion. I’m like, Fedor. So they asked me some questions. They said, how much you weigh? I said 230. They said, can you lose 30 pounds? I said yeah, sure. They said, can you not tan for a couple of months because obviously Fedor is pale. And they also asked me if I had any tattoos and I thought, well, Fedor doesn’t have tattoos. “No, I don’t,” and I lied, I have one on my back. So, thank God, in the movie they covered it up.
“But what I did is I studied tapes of Fedor. You’d think it would be easy because he really doesn’t show any emotion but I couldn’t figure him out. Like, he’s getting ready to fight, he has a little cracked smile like… you know, it just stays like that. And, I’m like, they want me to be this guy, I’ll try to be him but me because I can’t figure this guy out, he’s too complex.
“Yeah, they based it off of Fedor and, at the time, he was undefeated besides the fight where he got the cut so he was a lot more popular at that point, this was two years ago, two and a half years ago when we filmed it.
"I lost the weight, quit tanning, I learned the techniques. The great thing about being a pro-wrestler, thank God, is that I could learn the choreography 30 times faster than other fighters, I learned the choreography like that and they were worried about that because I had to be on the road 4-5 days a week wrestling and I was only there limitedly so I promised them that I would learn the technique very quickly and I did. So, they were very impressed by that."
Angle also talked about Brock Lesnar
“I have a lot of respect for Brock. I think that in any fight he’s in he has a chance.
"You don’t realize how strong and how athletic Brock Lesnar is until you get in that ring with him. I’ve sparred with him in real wrestling. I’m not going to tell you who won, I’ll say I was very happy with the outcome. But I’m a much more experienced wrestler.
"Brock Lesnar is the best athlete over 250 that I’ve ever seen in my life. He benches over 600 pounds, I’ve seen him squat over 1,000 pounds. This guy is an animal, so you can’t say that he has no chance. He always has a chance and, you know what, he can take a punch. Of course, he’s gotten knocked down and he’s got knocked out, but he can take a punch.
"The guy’s an animal, so he has a shot every time he goes out there and I wish him the best.”
I am not American,never really been into the whole pro wrestling scene,so cannot really give an comment that would stick about this Angle dude. Still,being that he got a gold medal in the Olympics i do think there some credence in him beating Lesnar.
As for the movie,it looks pretty cool. I am sure Dana is going to LOVE this movie. What better PR as two brothers,who fight eachother for the championship.....its going to be required watching for all the fighters,who fight at the same camp and have a chance of fighting for a title against eachother.
He's coke dout,watch the clip again,watch how his mouth moves before he speaks,watch his eyes,and the snuffiling is kind of a hint. Sucks to see someone who has accomplished so much in their life going down the drain but we're all big boy's and girl's and make our own choices,smh.
Lucky for Kurt he was probably lying about his weight too and just around 215.That's from one of the surgeries. He spoke of it in a shoot interview citing it as the reason he couldn't do any better in the "Woo off" with Ric Flair.
I've heard pretentious windbags before, and this my friends, is a pretentious windbag. Gold medal or not, guy comes off full of himself.
And no, it's not fighter bashing, he's never fought.
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