Conflict-free celebration at "The Fighter" premiere
It could have gotten ugly at the Hollywood runescape gold premiere of "The Fighter" on Monday, Dec. 6. After all, not only were Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, the film's tough guy stars, on hand for the celebration held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, but there were also a pack of real-life pro boxers in the mix.
On hand to watch their life stories unspool on the big screen were Micky Ward and Dicky Eklund, half brothers from Lowell, Mass., whose hard-luck lives and professional boxing careers were inexorably intertwined and make for a fascinating biographical film. Joining them on the red carpet were former welterweight and middleweight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard, Dicky's most famous foe, and current world middleweight champ Sergio Gabriel Martinez.
But as Bale told it in an earlier press conference, it was Dicky that "The Fighter" director David O. Russell runescape money actually had to worry about while he was making the movie.
"There were a couple of times that I had to physically restrain Dicky from going and landing one right on David," said Bale, who physically transformed himself into a super-skinny drug addict to play Eklund in the movie.
"We had some initial interesting times when we were rehearsing and Dicky wasn't totally understanding that putting a whole life into two hours means that a little bit of license has to be taken. He wanted everything to be absolutely how it really happened, and when it wasn't, there were a couple of times he was like, 'I'm going to get him!' And that's a serious thing coming from a pro boxer."
Happily, there were no real punches runescape accounts thrown during the film, not even by co-star Amy Adams, who gets into a scuffle of her own in the story.
"When I got the role David informed me that I looked like a girl who couldn't punch, which made me want to punch him," Adams recalled, while looking every bit a lady on the red carpet. "So I actually took a couple of boxing lessons. But I didn't want to hurt the girl that I was fighting with. I wasn't afraid of getting hurt myself. When I was younger, my sister thought that it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face, because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out when they were loose for a long time. And she knocked out my teeth!"
Happily, the glittery crowd that converged for the premiere was much more interested in looking good for the cameras than getting into any scuffles, so there were no punches thrown as Tia Carrere, Virginia Madsen, Tony Danza, Mark Hamill, A. J. Buckley, Connie Britton, Jeremy Piven and Sumner Redstone joined Russell and stars runescape money Melissa Leo, Bale, Adams and Wahlberg for the festivities.