no matter which version you're watching Roadhouse is a brutal movie in the 2024 version fists flew in real life and star Jake Gyllenhaal is sharing all the details about what went down the most memorable fight in the 1989 Roadhouse ends with Patrick SES James Dalton ripping a man's throat out with his bare hands over 30 years of action movies later any remake of roadh house would have to turn up the ferocity a little to have the same impact this time around Jake Gyllenhaal got ripped to play MMA
fighter protagonist Elwood Dalton despite his prime physical condition filming wasn't easy for the star gyllen Hall suffered a gruesome injury on the set thanks to a glass mishap and perhaps even more terrifyingly he got punched in the face by actual MMA star Conor McGregor who plays KNX the film's Ferocious antagonist Jake recounted the incident during an appearance on The Tonight Show describing how it felt to be on the receiving end of a worldclass punch turns out a little sleep-deprived con
fusion might have played a role it was late cuz we shot a lot of these fight scenes at night so it was like 3:00 a.m. Jak described how he and Connor would fake fights for the cameras and then go watch the playback to fine- tune their approach it was drawing one of these loose rehearsals that Connor accidentally connected a blow and he was talking to me really close and he was like assle like that left hook looks good but then when you do it boom like that and he hit me by mistake the actor ment
ioned that he and McGregor were equally shocked by The Accidental cheap shot I just slapped you you what fortunately the two maintained a great working relationship throughout filming and McGregor gave his costar plent of pointers to make things more believable he was always great with me he would show me tell me to do things and like oh you know turn your hand move a little bit more this way to try and make look more real still Jake Gyllenhaal wasn't the only person taking real hits durin the R
oadhouse shoot he also ended up accidentally hitting Conor McGregor in the head with a C Door call it Revenge if you want but gyllen Hall made sure to note that the fighter just Shrugged it off he was like the Roadhouse remake has seen its fair share of drama in the news most of the controversy has been around writes to the story and the movie streaming release it's pretty remarkable that two of the lead actors hitting each other in the face has been the least of the movie's worries as for Conor
McGregor he had extra motivation to bring his aame to the Roadhouse set in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter the star record Marl Streep's comments about mixed martial arts at the 2017 Golden Globes on that occasion stre said during an acceptance speech Hollywood is crawling with Outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts which are not the Arts stre was making an unrelated point about the Arts but McGregor underst
andably didn't care for the unnecessary shot to MMA in the interview with th HR he shared his own perspective saying I was really taken back because fighting is an art it's brutal also so I can understand it's not for somebody to make a mistake it's real artistry for those who do what we do so I came in with maybe a little chip on my shoulder and wanting to represent my Sport and my art give my best in this Arena you can see for yourself how he did in Roadhouse streaming now on Amazon Prime [Mus
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