Rousey On Being Female Rock

MMA and UFC star Ronda Rousey recently participated in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter about her rising movie career, and modeling it after wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Rousey On Being An Action Star, And Who She Looks Up To:

“I don’t half-ass anything. If I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it to be the best in the world at it. A lot of actresses appear in action movies, but there aren’t any female action stars. I love Angelina Jolie, but … it’s about believability for me. Milla Jovovich is one of my favorite actresses – ‘The Fifth Element’ really opened my eyes, and the ‘Resident Evil’ franchise was amazing. So definitely a mix of Milla Jovovich and The Rock is what I’m going for. People love chick fights. They love tough, empowered women. And there is a demand. People just don’t know it.”

Rousey On How Balancing Fighting And Acting:

I’ve done Expendables 3, Fast & Furious 7 and the Entourage movie, but nothing has come out yet. And I’ve had three fights in the meantime. People think the fighting is so easy. It may look easy, but have you tried multitasking like this? It’s insane! I guess if it looks easy, I’m doing a good job.

We reported back in May that WWE was interested in bringing in the “Four Horsewomen” of MMA to make an appearance at “SummerSlam” in August.

The four women in question are UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey, Marina Shafir, Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke.

According to F4WOnline.com, the word backstage is that it won’t be happening.

UFC President Dana White doesn’t want any of his fighters appearing on WWE programming while under contract.

Rousey wanted to bring her fellow “Horsewomen” along, but WWE only wanted to use her.

In an interview with Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com, Rousey discussed the possibility of her joining World Wrestling Entertainment after she’s done with MMA:

“It’s so similar to planning out fight scenes. I was just kind of messing around and thinking about cool moves to do in fight scenes. I really think of WWE like the purest form of stunts, kind of like in movies they say the purest form of acting is theatre because it’s live and all in one shot. I feel like WWE is the same for stunt work. I just kind of try to borrow from them a little bit and maybe I can steal some of their stunt work, throw it in a movie. If an opportunity comes up to show up and be a guest host or whatever, that would be pretty cool.”