Since leaving mixed martial arts to focus on her acting career full time, mixed martial arts star Gina Carano landed her biggest role to date in Fox/Marvel’s cinematic adaption of the popular comic book Deadpool.

Gina plays the role of Angel Dust, a genetically altered mutant that possesses super strength and is the top henchwoman for the film’s villain Francis ‘Ajax’ Freeman.

What she’s known for is having extreme adrenaline issues. Which, I don’t know. Have you looked up Angel Dust before? It’s kinda like a PCP and people kind of rage on it. I think that’s very fitting for my character. She’s got extreme strength and adrenaline. Talking to Screenrant (http://screenrant.com/deadpool-villains-gina-carano-interview/)

In the film’s climatic battle sequence, Carano finds herself in a fight against the X-Men’s Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead that shows off some of the techniques she’s used in the cage during her MMA career.

It’s a lot different than most of the fight scenes and the physicality that I’ve had before. I’ve never done anything with CGI, let alone I’ve never done anything with a 6’8 man as far as physicality goes. And then, on top of that he wears these big, massive boots. So it makes him taller. And then he wears this ball on the top of his head because he’s in a CGI, gray suit the whole time. And all of my movements have to be so much bigger. My physicality and my adrenaline and my strength has to match this guy. So everything that I do has to be legitimately strong

About Deadpool:
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson (played by Ryan Reynolds), who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.