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Emily Bett Rickards Talks Queen Of The Ring, WWE Hall Of Famer Mildred Burke Biopic

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How would you compare scenes with those two to the ones between more traditional actors like Deborah Woll and Kelli Berglund?

I don't know if there's... Yeah, I guess, my first flash of memory of those scenes is I am really wrestling heavily with Toni and Kailey, whereas in comparison, we aren't wrestling in most of our other scenes. So it's a different acting, we're all acting and we're all in character, but the format of the scenes, of what the scenes asked of us, were we're very different.

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Alrighty. Kelli, of course, has appeared in "Heels" alongside your "Arrow" co-star, Stephen Amell. Who do you think out of the rest of the Arrowverse would be most likely to next step into the ring?

Juliana. Let's get Juliana [Harkavy].

Any particular reason?

I could see it. I don't know. I feel like she could crush it. I feel like she could do it really well.

Stephen's also actually wrestled some legit matches as well. Did you ask him for any pointers?

No, I didn't. I had forgotten. I called my friend Brady and that was my first reach out.

All right. Do you have any ambitions to step into the ring yourself?

Well, I don't know. It's been about a year since we filmed, and at the time, I would've said I spent so much time in the ring that it really felt like it was a huge part of my life. I think coming back to routine of my own life has been... I feel a little bit further away from it than I once did, but I'll never say never.

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It could be fun.

Where would you rank this film in your body of work?

Well, I don't know if I would rank my work. Interesting question though. I'll have to say that as an actor, it was a real privilege to be able to transform in this way and it has changed and created a hunger in me to want to transform more deeply and give characters that I play more justice and more honesty and it's a craft that evolves. And she Mildred taught me specifically that there is capacity to do that, and that's something I'll take with me for the rest of my life.

Alrighty, Emily, I think we're about out of time, so thank you so much for talking to me today. I really appreciate it.

Thanks, Kevin. Have a great day.

"Queen of the Ring" will be screening at the Twin Cities Film Festival in Minneapolis; Kansas' Tallgrass Film Festival; the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival; the Coronado Island Film Festival; and the St. Louis International Film Festival.

 

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