A major reason Bill Skarsgård took on his first big action movie is because he loves MMA and UFC, says Boy Kills World director

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Who can do a lot of the action themselves?

“He’s amazing,” adds the director.

and he’s like, ‘Absolutely.

Big MMA, UFC fan.

I want to get in shape.

I want to train.

I want to do this the right way.’

Mohr goes on to say that he was so impressed with the actors transformation for the final movie.

Elsewhere in our conversation with Mohr, he sharedsome insight into the R-rating and working with producer Sam Raimi.

For our full chat listen to theInside Total Film podcast, out later this week.