Nate Diaz claims he turned down Conor McGregor's role in Road House
Nate Diaz has claimed he turned down the role Conor McGregor played in the Road House reboot.
The former MMA fighter landed the role of Knox in the 2024 film alongside Jake Gyllenhaal.
Now, his fiercest rival has said he turned down the role because he didn't want to 'lose' an onscreen fight.
'I was supposed to do Conor McGregor's part in Road House,' he told the HJR podcast.
'That was my part, but I was like, 'I'm not fighting, go in there, and losing a fight.'
'I've seen the original Roadhouse. So I'm the main bad guy? I'm supposed to fight … okay, who's the Patrick Swayze then? And they said it was Jake Gyllenhaal and I'm like, 'I ain't going to no movie and losing to no Brokeback Mountain.'
'F*ck that. I'm good. I can't do it.'
Diaz and McGregor have been bitter rivals since they first took to the ring in two 2016 bouts.
McGregor v Diaz
Diaz won their first fight, but a few months later, McGregor won their second by decision following a five-round rematch.
McGregor landed a role in the remake of the 1989 film when he was in recovery after breaking his leg in 2021.
He played the role of a hitman tasked with killing Gyllenhaal's character Elwood Dalton.
A fan of the original movie starring Patrick Swayze, McGregor said he turned down 'a good few roles' before agreeing to star in Road House.
'I've had directors show up at fight camp, really beautiful directors doing really top-end movies… And over and over, they'd come to me, and I always turned them down,' he told Total Film.
'I'd leave people a little high and dry. I probably have a few enemies out there that I don't really know of because I had said, 'I might do it.'"
Gyllenhaal said that during filming, he had to repeatedly remind McGregor not to 'actually hit' him.
"There were a couple of times — actually, almost every time — I had to turn to him, and I'd be like, 'Remember, you don't actually hit me.'
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He said he gave McGregor acting tips in exchange for grappling advice.
'He was like, 'OK, let's go!' But then there were times we were grappling, and he's talking to me while we were grappling.
'He's like, 'Right arm under. Wrap your leg around me. Now pull me up, through the legs.'
'So there was a real exchange. He came up to me, and he was like, 'I did that last take. What did you think of that? Was it a bit too big?' I'd be like, 'Well, you have that. Try this.'
'There was a real back-and-forth between us, and a deep respect for both of our primary occupations."
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