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"It&amp;#x27;s not often I leave a movie thinking, Wow, I&amp;#x27;ve never ever seen something like that before. (Is my weakness for rom-coms, even in the midst of serious-film season, to blame? Yep.) But that&amp;#x27;s how I felt when I left a screening of Steven Soderbergh&amp;#x27;s Haywire a few months ago. Haywire, which opens next Friday, stars MMA fighter Gina Carano in her very first film (that&amp;#x27;s her above, with co-star Channing Tatum at the premiere). And instead of starting off with, like, a few lines in a restaurant scene or something, Gina is kicking off her film career with an intense, in-every-scene role that paired her with some of Hollywood&amp;#x27;s biggest leading men. Oh, right, and she had to beat all of them up, too. The fight scenes are ridiculously raw, but shot gorgeously, as are the many moments in which Gina scales a building or outruns a bad guy (Tom Cruise has nothing on this girl). The effect was, well, that I pretty much just wanted to be her. That&amp;#x27;s something the 29-year-old&amp;#x27;s been getting a lot: &amp;quot;I had a man come up to me at the premiere and say he really had to drag his wife to an action movie,&amp;quot; Carano told me earlier this week. &amp;quot;By the time they left, she was more pumped up than he was. Women come out of the movie and say to me, &amp;#x27;I want to go get into shape now.&amp;#x27; It&amp;#x27;s just a beautiful thing.&amp;quot; It really is: Carano&amp;#x27;s ridiculous physique and skills are way more inspiring than any &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot; movie waif. Couple that with the fact that she straight-up crumples the men in the movie, and you&amp;#x27;ve got a girl-power extravaganza that, trust me, makes for a way more satisfying ladies&amp;#x27; night out than whatever chick flick is out right now. And speaking of those crumpled men--Gina walked us through her three amazing fight scenes, opposite Channing, Michael Fassbender and Ewan McGregor. &amp;quot;With Channing, you can see his personality come out,&amp;quot; Gina said of their knock-down drag-out in a diner. &amp;quot;He&amp;#x27;s incredibly passionate and very athletic. We&amp;#x27;re both extremely athletic people, so everything was quick and hardcore.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Fassbender is very tricky and cutthroat,&amp;quot; Gina said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#x27;ll use anything and everything, and I will, too. We utilized everything in that hotel room--throwing each other over couches, getting slammed into the flatscreen TV.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Ewan is very smart, and really technical,&amp;quot; Gina said. &amp;quot;We were all sitting in a hotel room, discussing that scene, and he asked so many questions. Our scene was complete adrenaline. It really adds to the performance, this sense that though your characters don&amp;#x27;t like each other and you&amp;#x27;re trying to hurt the other person, you&amp;#x27;re still trying to take care of them.&amp;quot; Are you girls planning to see Haywire? If you&amp;#x27;re into action films (I&amp;#x27;m not, and I still loved it), what upcoming ones are you excited for? More on movies we&amp;#x27;re obsessed with... *Justin Timberlake&amp;#x27;s Future Could Include Jumpsuits, Sequins, Temper Tantrums--and a Lot of Elton John Songs *Meet Pariah&amp;#x27;s Adepero Oduye Now, Impress Awards-Season Snobs Later *Babymakers: Here&amp;#x27;s What Happens When Dudes Who Usually Write About Beer Make A Movie About Getting Pregnant Photo: Getty Images and Relativity Media"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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