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service at the gym, teaching the new wrestlers. For
her, it’s kind of a demotion to be there, but she falls for
another young wrestler, Sophie, played by Sinn Sage.
The end is like a classic sports film. Layla will leave
the team—struggling with a drug issue, painkillers—
but she comes back and fights against Sophie. Today
we’re shooting dialogue and training sequences, and
tonight we do the wrestling matches.”
After the first take of a scene with newscaster Charlotte
Stokely interviewing two wrestlers, Greenwood calls
cut, pulls out his phone and plays back a wrestler
interview for the performers. “Angrier. Like that,” he
tells them. On the next take, Whitney Wright bears
down on the anger, changing it up but keeping the
pressure on. When the next two wrestlers, Ana Foxxx
and Aiden Ashley, come in, Greenwood briefs them on
plot points before the first take, and they nail it. “You
aren’t going to get better than that,” cinematographer
James Avalon says.
With the interview scenes done, the next shots are
quick training scenes with Ariel X to be cut together
for a montage. The performers, in sweats, mount the
machinery as X goads them under Avalon’s hand-
held camera. Out of the action and still in her reporter
costume, Stokely slips off her blazer and does a few
reps on an arm machine.
Greenwood moves on to the ring, working out
wrestling moves with Kenna James and Cadence
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