Juliette Lewis may play tough as nails Iron Maven, who out to get Babe Ruthless (Ellen Page) in "Whip It," but in real life she explains that her intentions weren't at all to hurt her costar, even if director and fellow skater Drew Barrymore thought it might be good for the flick.
"Oh no! That was a lot of pressure," she said of having to play an experienced roller derby queen. "All of us were in roller derby camp and I had to be the best but I'm not the best. I'm not gonna lie. I'm humble. But you know there's some good editing there, but we all did our own skating like 98 percent of our skating. I remember I had to knock down Ellen in a part cause I'm really vicious and Drew was like, 'I really want you to get her.' But I was like, 'Yeah within reason cause I'm not sending Ellen to the hospital!'"
In the clip, Lewis also explains what it was like to be the lady of experience in the flick. She admits that she has a lot in common with her character, being that she's somewhat of a woman with experience. But, as you can tell, she's not quite as mean as Iron Maven.
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