Keith Jardine defeated Forrest Griffin and Chuck Liddell in the UFC Octagon and now he wants to be anesthetized the cinema audience Kill me again” His first full-feature directing debut. But although he can retire from MMA, the man who called them ‘de Dean of Mean’ still uses the lessons he learned as a athlete to collect his film career.
“As a hunter, unless you win, you learn how to fail: how to get rid of the mat and fight again, and acting is in the same way,” Jardine explains, who retired with a record of 17-11-0 in MMA. “I won more than I lost in fighting, and in acting believe me, I have failed much more than I have passed.”
Undoubtedly, Jardine learned in the ultra -competitive world of the showbiz that he should bank in itself, just as he did as an athlete. ‘You have to get up after that failed audition of that mat. They didn’t like you, whatever, you consider it a failure. You have lost. You didn’t understand. You try to pay your rent, and you didn’t get that job, you know? If you don’t get out of bed and let things happen, nothing is wrong.
Fortunately, things certainly happen as a result of Jadine’s warrior work ethics. His first trips on the screen include a role against Jason Statham in Crank 2: High voltage And credits in Breaking Bath And John Wick. Now he is also building a solid reputation behind the camera. In 2023, Jardine won an independent short prize for his crime story, El Paso: 1155″ And now he takes on his first full position as a director.
Kill me again Follows Charlie (played by Brendan Fehr), a serial killer who gets imprisoned in his own nightmare. It is a psychological horror that has many turns, and was also written by Jardine, whose love for stories from different genres influenced the plot. “It is the Batman’s, the Blockbusters and all that action of the 80s,” the Renaissance man recalls.
“I was in high school in the early 90s and my friend let me watch Clerk (1994) One of the best films I saw. Jardine tells M&F that he also draws from films like The big Lebowski. “I remember that I just laughed aloud in the theater,” he remembers. Jardine also has a good place for dead man, starring Johnny Depp, a film he watched with his father. “This relates to Kill me again Many, because there are many large turns at the end, and there are many small Easter eggs in it, “he teases.
How Keith Jardine remains fit for making films
“Every morning I train, I eat my huge breakfast and the rest of the day seems to fall in line afterwards,” says the man who has reached the semi -final oF The ultimate hunterSeason 2 in 2005.
Jardine still sets his alarm for 5 hours and hits the gym or takes his dogs for a sprint. The huge breakfast that Jardine talks about contains six eggs, together with tortillas. “I try to start with real clean food,” he says. “I have these tortillas that are only plantain and baking soda as the ingredients. So I like to make them and eat them with my eggs and some avocado. I am not really worried about the calories in the morning. I just try to feel good and then, I have a little bit
Jardine, who was once a personal trainer, says that being fit is not about having the perfect training. “Just have fun,” he encourages. “Just move some weight and learn how to enable your body. It should not be something that you fear. If you go to the gym and you only touch the leg press machine, and do four sets and go home, that’s a success!” However, you cannot get the fight from this filmmaker. “Every day I try to get to a point where I lose my breath,” says Jardine. “That means I do Max Pull -ups, if I jump up a hill or I do some power cleaning. If I do that once a day, I have the feeling that I have done a lot.”
Keith Jardine’s Kill me again Is released in theaters and VOD platforms such as Prime Video and Apple TV+ on 8 August.
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