Gamers saw Gina Carano in the live action segments of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 before she became a Hollywood star.
How has the transition been for you going from American Gladiators to MMA to Hollywood actress?
I find more often than not you get a lot of people that are artistically expressing themselves and they take whatever they learned to get and make themselves better. I feel like I’ve been nothing but bettering myself as a human. Everything I’ve done in my life has made me feel entirely uncomfortable from doing interviews to acting to fighting. I’m afraid of pretty much everything, but there’s something inside of me that’s addicted to scaring myself and I do that often and I can’t stop. I think it’s what keeps me myself. If I don’t scare myself in a year or in a month or in a week, then I’m doing something wrong and I’ll just sink into myself. I’m very emotional and I need to artistically express myself and so that’s what I do in pretty much everything.
How does this whole concept of Under Armour technology influence you as you continue to work out?
Instead of traveling with your coach, which many people do, you can travel with this and be honest with yourself. Most of the time when people get to where they’re going it’s because of something in themselves. They decided they wanted to go there. Everybody else can be screaming at you about your diet, about your weight, about your workout ethic or whatever, but until you have that desire to do that within yourself, then you’re not going to reach any goals. It’s just like a chart, so you can watch and see and grow because you want to, because you have that desire to, not because of anybody else. No other pressures in the world can make you become what you want to and reach your dreams except yourself.
What do you like about Under Armour 39?
It held me accountable to myself. It’s like at the end of this I have nothing else but to look at how I did. You’re in competition with yourself and that’s always what working out has been to me. It’s been a very personal growth and it’s always been very personal. You can compete with other teams your whole life or you can compete with your brothers, your sisters, or significant other, but when it comes to a lifestyle you have to have that competition with yourself in making yourself better, so I like that part of it.
