When you find out UFC Hall of Famer and current WWE superstar Ronda Rousey is going to be in an action movie, chances are you`re expecting some intense fight scenes that will allow her to put her martial arts training to use. That`s simply not the case in her new film, Mile 22, though.While there is plenty of hand-to-hand combat on display in the film, most notably featuring The Walking Dead`s Lauren Cohan, director Peter Berg made the decision to keep all of Rousey`s action firearm-based, rather than having her mix it up and throw hands in the movie. That`s a stark change from something like her appearance in Furious 7, where she had an extensive fight scene with Michelle Rodriguez.So why have Rousey keep her hands to herself? Because it`s the last thing viewers would expect. `Pete purposely didn`t have me do any hand-to-hand combat because he felt like it`d be too me,` she tells GameSpot. `And he wanted people to be surprised to even see that it was me [in] the movie.`Instead of fight choreography, Rousey went to gun school. After all, her character Sam is a member of a highly-cover group of operatives tasked with extracting a very dangerous asset from a foreign nation. Being proficient with guns is an important piece of the puzzle.`We had to learn the actual concepts of gun fighting,` Rousey says. `And so we spent a whole week or so in an abandoned hotel with real guns and blanks.`It wasn`t just learning how to shoot that prepared her for the film, though. `We had a Navy Seal, Army Ranger, Marine, and all kinds of consultants helping us to study for this role, so we would actually learn the concept of how to you clear a room,` she explains. `One of the proper things to do was [make a] checklist of things to do, depending on how many people you have with you, and things like that. So when we got thrown into a situation, we would know the right things to do.`The end result is an intense action film that lets Rousey try new things as an actress. After all, while ...
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