Tyler and I were in a movie this week. Well, mostly Tyler.
We went to be extras in BYU's first feature film, which is to be called Fire Creek. I don't know all of the details of what the movie is about, but this week they were filming a boxing tournament, and they needed extras to play the spectators at the boxing match, so that's what we did. At first.
They wanted to show one of the boxers with a broken nose, to kind of give the feeling of how badly hurt someone can get (one of the main characters gets trounced pretty badly). Tyler volunteered and they made him up pretty nicely. It looked so good, in fact, that the director decided not to just show him with the broken nose, but to show it happening.
So Tyler got pitted up against this big Polynesian guy. The guy kind of tackled Tyler and got in a few shots to the face before the referee could pull him off. Then Tyler was pulled back onto a stool in his corner where a skilled actor (me) played his buddy who tried to clean off the blood. Tyler wouldn't let him touch it (despite the buddy's pleas to help clean him up), but demanded to know if it was broken, which his coach admitted that it was.
We had lines and everything. It was exciting. I have a few pictures of Tyler in action.
4 comments:
If there was a Tyler Jackman show it would probably solve several problems throughout the world.
Like the problem of people thinking they can beat him at Risk.
Dude! It's all making me wish that I'd gotten dressed in my white trash and come over. holy cow. I'm impressed.
p.s. "trounce" is a tres fab word.
I was the actor who portrayed the referee. It was pretty gruesome. Kudos to the guy for getting tackled by the Polynesian guy over and over and over again until it looked right. Had to be sore the next day for sure!
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