Nick Diaz Mentioned as Gina Carano Eyes Directing Role
Gina Carano used Saturday’s event to point toward a new lane, saying she wants to direct and build stories around fighters like nick diaz and Mike Perry. The 44-year-old, who has spent more time in entertainment than in the cage, tied her next step to how Mixed Martial Arts can be handled on screen.
Carano’s Directing Push
“My biggest dream is to direct, and also help Mixed Martial Arts transition over into movies correctly and help that because everybody wants to put Nate Diaz and Mike Perry in the prison scenes but their personalities are a bit different,” she said at Thursday’s press conference ahead of her bout with Ronda Rousey.
She went further on the kind of project she wants to make. “You put them in a different role, they could be [something else]. I’d put them in a comedy!” Carano also said, “I like to make art, I’d like to get back to storytelling.”
From Strikeforce To Netflix
Carano last fought in 2009, when she lost to Cris Cyborg in a Strikeforce title fight. Her MMA run lasted just over three years and included only eight fights, then she moved into acting and landed roles in Deadpool and Fast & Furious.
Her biggest role came in The Mandalorian before Disney let her go after a social media controversy. Since then, she has made appearances in two releases in 2022 and now leads a major show on Netflix.
Rousey Card And What Comes Next
Carano weighed in at 141.4 pounds on Friday ahead of her first fight since 2009, and she and Ronda Rousey cleared their final step before their historic Netflix comebacks. That leaves her in the odd position of talking about both a return to fighting and a future behind the camera at the same time.
“For me, I’m a little bit of a bird, I don’t know what’s going to happen after this,” she said. “So I think that directing is where I want to go – did you hear that Netflix?”
For readers following the card, the practical part is simple: Carano is not just back for one bout. She is publicly pitching the next chapter, and she has already named the fighters she would most want to use if that chapter becomes a comedy.
