Ash Avildsen discusses Toni Storm and Kamille in 'Queen Of The Ring'.
The Mildred Burke biopic is set to hit theaters on Friday, March 7. The film's cast is loaded with a number of wrestling stars in prominent roles including Toni Storm as Clara Mortensen and Kamille as June Byers.
While speaking with Humza of the Wrestling In Film podcast for a new interview, Ash Avildsen, the director of 'Queen Of The Ring', spoke about casting Toni Storm and Kamille in the movie.
“Yeah, you know, they both have — Some people have period faces. The faces that are just more friendly to a period, right, and some people just look more modern. It’s kind of this intangible when making period [pieces], you need your actors to look like they match the time. So, Toni, and this was before the Timeless character came out, she just nailed it. The same thing with [Kamille] having the physique of June Byers to be able to eclipse Emily’s physique and to really be dominant as a very dangerous opponent. They were both so great, it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing them. Just from a production standpoint because they were both shoot — Two of the shoot matches are Tony and [Kamille], there’s a lot of wrestling involved in their characters and scenes. It was going to be very hard to do that without real wrestlers, to switch out stunt people, we have to shoot for hours and hours, they’re taking bumps longer than they’d ever taken in a normal match because there’s all these different camera setups and angles. So, they were just very resilient and very fearless with what they put their bodies through for the sake of independent film and I’m forever grateful for them doing that.”
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