Here's how the Fighting With My Family cast compares to the real family unit of WWE superstar Paige. Rocky has, rightfully, come to be seen as the defining underdog movie, and has provided the template for a lot of the sports movie that followed, from The Karate Kid to The Mighty Ducks and The Fighter. Rocky besides looms large with 2019 dramaFighting With My Family unit, which details the origin story of Paige and her human relationship with her family unit.

The picture is actually based on the 2012 Channel 4 documentary The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Family, which Dwayne Johnson happened to see one night while in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland filming Fast & Furious 6. Johnson would somewhen become a co-producer on the film and plays himself, but while information technology depicts Paige and her brother Zak meeting the wrestler once during a SmackDown taping, this was invented for the picture show. The picture was as well directed by Stephen Merchant, co-creator of the United kingdom version of The Office, in add-on to interim in films like Logan and Jojo Rabbit.

Fighting With My Family invented or condensed certain elements of Paige's story for dramatic purposes, but the picture show is notwithstanding quite authentic to her wrestling journey and relationship with her family. Paige'south real name is Saraya-Jade Bevis, and her parents Ricky Knight and Julia Knight - AKA Sweet Saraya - are co-founders of the UK's Globe Association of Wrestling. In Fighting With My Family Ricky is played by Nick Frost while Julia is portrayed past Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones); the real Ricky wanted Ray Winstone for the function but admitted Frost did a great job.

Fighting With My Family unit provided actress Florence Pugh with her quantum role as Paige, which she would soon follow with Midsommar and a atomic number 82 role in the forthcoming Black Widow. Paige's brother Zak Zodiac is played by Jack Lowden, with the film depicting Zac'south real feelings of jealousy when Paige was selected following WWE tryouts and he wasn't. The pic depicts Zak teaching a blind teenager how to wrestle, which is completely true; the real Zak also makes a quick cameo in the flick.

James Burrows (Happy Valley) likewise plays Roy Knight in Fighting With My Family unit, Paige and Zak'south half-blood brother who is likewise a wrestler. The unabridged association was said to be happy with Fighting With My Family , with Paige albeit information technology made her weep. The film was a solid hit likewise, earning over iv times its budget and receiving nifty reviews.

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It's pronounced Mitt-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that's out of the fashion, a cursory introduction. Padraig has been writing virtually film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he'd like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site. A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little chip of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Bluster over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU - where Hawkeye is clearly the best character - to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes oft crave heat resistant gloves to handle. He's super modern likewise, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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