Conor McGregor tells PEOPLE he brought his MMA skills to set of 'Road House' during fight scenes. He reveals he and Jake Gyllenhaal threw real punches during shooting, and they enjoyed working together.
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He continues: “I gave him a wallop, he gave me one back, and then the stuntmen that were stepping in at times took some big shots also.”Now making his way into the acting world, McGregor plays an antagonist to Gyllenhaal’s character Dalton, a former UFC fighter who becomes a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys.
Later on in the interview, the actor joked that he got McGregor back when he “by mistake, then slammed his face with a car door.”“I've not seen a movie like that where the shots are so real like that because they were real. So I had a great time doing it. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
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