Conor McGregor was supposed to have a part in ‘Vikings’
nme.comVikings, but that it ultimately fell apart.McGregor – who stars in Amazon Prime Video‘s Road House remake alongside Jake Gyllenhaal – recently spoke with Ireland’s JOE, sharing that Road House wasn’t originally planned to be his acting debut.Instead, the former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion was scheduled to make his debut in the hit series, Vikings but that he kept pushing it back and production eventually moved on without him.McGregor said to JOE about making his acting debut alongside Gyllenhaal: “I’ll have a whack at anything no bother.
You know, I was supposed to be in Vikings, the Vikings had me teed up.”He explained further: “I had a few things teed up but I just kept pushing it along down the line, but I just stayed in the fight business.
I always said ‘I’m in the fight business, not the movie business.’”“Ultimately I ended up letting people down over that because I was teed up to do a full season, and it just never happened,” McGregor concluded.Vikings first premiered on the History channel before making a splash and being picked up at Prime Video.
A Vikings sequel, Vikings: Valhalla, was picked up by Netflix.Conor McGregor stars in Road House – a remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze film of the same name – as Knox, a hired brute to clashes with Gyllenhaal’s Elwood Dalton throughout the film.
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