Daisy Ridley, who talks about how she watched MMA bouts to be ready for her role, seems to agree that the sport is notoriously violent.
In her most recent action film, Cleaner, she plays a window cleaner who must contend with terrorists occupying a building.
The Star Wars actress claims that she watched mixed martial arts events to get ready for the part, but she was turned off by their savagery.
“I tried watching MMA fights,” the 29-year-old admits to UPI. “Honestly, they’re so violent I struggled to watch that many of them.”
Daisy admits that she watched enough bouts to get a sense of how she would play Joey, despite the roughness.
“That degree of hostility and that degree of physical discomfort.
