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Sunday World
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Nate Diaz claims he turned down Conor McGregor's role in Road House
'I ain't going to no movie and losing to no Brokeback Mountain.' 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.' Nate Diaz / Conor McGregor - Getty Images News in 90 Seconds - May 27th 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."
USA Today
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Nate Diaz claims he was supposed to star in 'Road House,' not Conor McGregor
Nate Diaz claims he was supposed to star in 'Road House,' not Conor McGregor Nate Diaz says he had to pass the role of "Road House" to his former UFC rival Conor McGregor. Apparently, the movie remake of "Road House" was supposed to look a lot different. Former UFC star Nate Diaz claims that he was the original plan to play the protagonist's bad guy, Knox, and not his rival Conor McGregor, who ended up co-starring in the film alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. "Road House" was released in 2024 on Prime Video, and it made plenty of headlines given McGregor's involvement. Diaz claimed he turned down the role due to Gyllenhaal's prior role as a gay lover. "I was supposed to do Conor McGregor's part in Road House," Diaz said on "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 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." McGregor and Diaz have plenty of history between the two. They're fought twice, with Diaz submitting McGregor in the first fight back in 2016, and McGregor winning the second bout by decision a few months later that same year. Since, the two have spent tons of time trash talking each other online, and many hoped to see a trilogy bout between the two – which now seems unlikely. Diaz is no longer signed with the UFC, and McGregor hasn't fought since breaking his leg in 2021.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nate Diaz claims he was supposed to star in 'Road House,' not Conor McGregor
Apparently, the movie remake of "Road House" was supposed to look a lot different. Former UFC star Nate Diaz claims that he was the original plan to play the protagonist's bad guy, Knox, and not his rival Conor McGregor, who ended up co-starring in the film alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. "Road House" was released in 2024 on Prime Video, and it made plenty of headlines given McGregor's involvement. Diaz claimed he turned down the role due to Gyllenhaal's prior role as a gay lover. "I was supposed to do Conor McGregor's part in Road House," Diaz said on "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 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." McGregor and Diaz have plenty of history between the two. They're fought twice, with Diaz submitting McGregor in the first fight back in 2016, and McGregor winning the second bout by decision a few months later that same year. Since, the two have spent tons of time trash talking each other online, and many hoped to see a trilogy bout between the two – which now seems unlikely. Diaz is no longer signed with the UFC, and McGregor hasn't fought since breaking his leg in 2021. This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Nate Diaz says he was to star in 'Road House,' not Conor McGregor
New York Post
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Tim McGraw reveals marrying Faith Hill saved his life: I was a ‘wild man'
Faith Hill is Tim McGraw's type of rain. The couple has been together 29 years, and now the country singer, 58, is looking back at when he first met his wife in 1994. 'I've been lucky. I've been very fortunate. First off, meeting my wife saved my life. I was a wild man,' McGraw gushed on Tracy Lawrence's 'Road House' podcast. 'I was having fun.' 9 Faith Hill & Tim McGraw. WireImage 9 Tim McGraw (L) and Faith Hill kiss onstage at the 2014 CMA Festival on June 5, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. Getty Images The pair — who shares daughters Gracie, 27, Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23 — first started dating while on tour before tying the knot in 1996. 'She turned my life around. I couldn't have found a better woman. Not only beautiful and talented, but just a good, good person. And then having our daughters,' McGraw said of Hill, 57. 'It's life-changing. They make you a better person, and they certainly calm the demons in you.' The Grammy winner expressed that being a dad 'changed everything about my life.' 9 Faith Hill and Tim McGraw at event, New York, 1990s. Getty Images 9 Singer Faith Hill and singer Tim McGraw attend the 24th Annual American Music Awards on January 27, 1997 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images 'It changed my perspective. It changed the way I thought about what my future would be,' confessed McGraw. 'It certainly took me out of myself.' One part of his life that McGraw holds closest is his 'tours with Faith.' 'The Soul2Soul tours with Faith, for a couple of reasons, because it's rare that people get to do that in this business, that a husband and wife get to go on tour at the pinnacle of their careers and get to do stuff together,' he explained. 9 Faith Hill (L) and Tim McGraw perform onstage during the 'Soul2Soul' World Tour in 2017. Getty Images Their latest tour wrapped in 2018, but the duo still perform together. (They also recently starred together on the Paramount+ Western series '1883,' a prequel to 'Yellowstone.') 'More importantly,' McGraw stated, 'she makes me a better artist every time I have to sing with her. Because to me, I think Faith, when you listen to her music and you listen to her albums, I think she is probably one of the best singers in the world.' 'She just really has such a soulful voice, and her musical taste is just so incredible,' he added. The 'Indian Outlaw' artist has been sober since 2008, and has been vocal about Hill's support. 9 Audrey McGraw, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill and Maggie McGraw attend the 16th Annual Academy of Country Music Honors at Ryman Auditorium on August 23, 2023. Getty Images for ACM 9 Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP 'She's always been my rock. She's my rock in everything that I do. I don't think I could stand up straight without leaning on her in everything that I do,' McGraw told Yahoo Entertainment in 2023, while adding there have been difficult moments. 'It is not a linear path,' he admitted. 'There's setbacks… there's times you move forward and do great, and there's times you set back. And that'll probably be a process throughout the rest of my life and something that I have to be diligent about … really continue to work at.' McGraw also revealed which song from his catalog is his favorite. 9 Faith Hill And Tim McGraw at the Nashville Music City Walk Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Nashville Music City Walk of Fame on October 5, 2016. Getty Images 9 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. faithhill/Instagram 'Oh, 'It's Your Love,' because it was the very first song that Faith and I ever did together,' he told the outlet. 'We were very early in our relationship, and it was just something that really just brought us together in a way that I don't know what else could have,' McGraw reminisced. 'And then I remember shooting the video. … Faith was pregnant with Gracie. That was just such a special time and a special moment, the beginning of a long relationship. I always look back on that as something that not only changed my musical world but changed my life.' 'It's Your Love' went on to win four Academy of Country Music Awards in 1997 — for best single, best song, best video and for vocal event of the year.
Irish Daily Mirror
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Dana White says Conor McGregor "not fighting anytime soon"
UFC boss Dana White has seemed to put the idea of Conor McGregor returning to the competition on ice. "The Notorious" has been active on social media recently, adding to the rumour mill of a potential return. He has asked to return to the UFC's drug testing pool, which would make him eligible to compete in the promotion. This came after he posted training footage online in which fans said he looked slow. He took to X recently to remonstrate about Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira having a fight arranged for November. But White, speaking to Adam Glyn, appeared to put off any potential McGregor fight. He said: 'He's not fighting anytime soon. I haven't talked to him in a minute, but yeah, I don't know.' Asked about McGregor and his stardom, White said: 'There will never be another Conor McGregor. There will be another superstar that pops up, but there will never be another Conor McGregor. "Somebody will pop up. They make themselves. A hundred percent. "We find people who have talent and obviously if you have the personality that all those other people have that we were just talking about, that's incredible, but I'm always just looking for the best fighters in the world and the rest is up to them.' The Crumlin native was scheduled to fight Michael Chandler last June, but was forced to pull out due to a broken toe he sustained in the build-up to the bout. His last fight, in 2021, ended with him suffering a broken leg in the first round of action against Dustin Poirier. In the time since this fight, he has starred in the Amazon movie Road House which released in 2024, netting him $5.5 million, making him the highest-paid first-time actor ever.
