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Kate Green/Getty Images for Prime Video UK
Conor McGregoris revealing what part ofRoad Housewas not all an act.
While filming the upcoming action movie, McGregor, 35, tells PEOPLE the fight scenes turned far from fake while shooting. Despite having stunt doubles, the MMA fighter says he brought his experience in the ring into his fight scenes withJake Gyllenhaal.
“It wasn’t fake fighting,” he admits, while speaking at theNew York City premiereofRoad Houseon Tuesday. “I don’t think so. As a man who fights for a living, it was very, very real. Very much real. There were real shots landed.”
He continues: “I gave him a wallop, he gave me one back, and then the stuntmen that were stepping in at times took some big shots also.”
Now making his way into the acting world, McGregor plays an antagonist to Gyllenhaal’s character Dalton, a former UFC fighter who becomes a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys. It is a remake of the 1989 film of the same name starringPatrick Swayze.
On Monday’s episode ofThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Gyllenhaal, 43, mirrored McGregor’s claims that some punches were real.
“By mistake,he clocked me in the face,” the actor said of McGregor, going on to explain, “We would do a take [of] fake fighting, and then we’d go watch the monitors to see it back, to see what worked.”
“He was always great with me,” the award winner added in his conversation with hostJimmy Fallon. “He would tell me to do things like, ‘Oh, you know, turn your hand, move a little bit more this way to try to make it look more real.’ "
McGregor appreciated the realness behind the scenes. He tells PEOPLE he feels the film is one-of-a-kind.
“I’ve not seen a movie like that where the shots are so real like that because they were real. So I had a great time doing it.
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Along with Gyllenhaal and McGregor, the film featuresJessica Williams,Post Malone, Daniela Melchior,Lukas Gage,Billy MagnussenandDarren Barnet.
Road Houseis streaming on Prime Video Thursday.
source: people.com
