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RONDA ROUSEY'S ACTING CAREER TAKES A HIT
FIGHTLAND BLOG
By Josh Rosenblatt
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/ronda-rouseys-acting-career-takes-a-hit
From longer article:
"According to The New Yorker story, Berg was able to sell Fogelson on Mile 22 but not on Rousey as its star. Raising concerns about the fighter’s admittedly wooden performance in Furious 7, the studio head pushed Berg to find a big-name star, like Will Smith, to take on the part of Silva, a shadowy “intelligence hack who’s shoveled shit on four continents” whose role in the movie was tertiary: nothing a superstar would normally consider. And sure enough, Smith turned down the role (despite his love of MMA) and it eventually went to Mark Walhberg, who agreed to the movie only if his part was beefed up and he became, rather than the tragic turncoat who dies in the film’s third act, its star, and possibly the center of a new franchise."
"Berg signed off, as did Fogelson, and the film was rewritten, and Rousey was once more pushed into the role of the fighter without much acting weight to carry... As Fogelson said, with true Hollywood sugar, the new script will allow 'Ronda to do everything she can and should do without having to carry any undue acting weight.' Jesus, in a town and an industry built on perception, that sentence alone, coming as it does from a rising Hollywood power player, could damn Ronda Rousey to the cold hell of typecasting, a hell from which there is usually no escape. Add to this the fact that Rousey lost her fight in December to Holly Holm, a fight that demolished the invincibility that Rousey’s reputation, and more importantly Hollywood’s interest in her, had been built on, and it’s not hard to see that Ronda Rousey could be in trouble in motion pictures."
FIGHTLAND BLOG
By Josh Rosenblatt
http://fightland.vice.com/blog/ronda-rouseys-acting-career-takes-a-hit
From longer article:
"According to The New Yorker story, Berg was able to sell Fogelson on Mile 22 but not on Rousey as its star. Raising concerns about the fighter’s admittedly wooden performance in Furious 7, the studio head pushed Berg to find a big-name star, like Will Smith, to take on the part of Silva, a shadowy “intelligence hack who’s shoveled shit on four continents” whose role in the movie was tertiary: nothing a superstar would normally consider. And sure enough, Smith turned down the role (despite his love of MMA) and it eventually went to Mark Walhberg, who agreed to the movie only if his part was beefed up and he became, rather than the tragic turncoat who dies in the film’s third act, its star, and possibly the center of a new franchise."
"Berg signed off, as did Fogelson, and the film was rewritten, and Rousey was once more pushed into the role of the fighter without much acting weight to carry... As Fogelson said, with true Hollywood sugar, the new script will allow 'Ronda to do everything she can and should do without having to carry any undue acting weight.' Jesus, in a town and an industry built on perception, that sentence alone, coming as it does from a rising Hollywood power player, could damn Ronda Rousey to the cold hell of typecasting, a hell from which there is usually no escape. Add to this the fact that Rousey lost her fight in December to Holly Holm, a fight that demolished the invincibility that Rousey’s reputation, and more importantly Hollywood’s interest in her, had been built on, and it’s not hard to see that Ronda Rousey could be in trouble in motion pictures."
