The pair worked for a week building sets, including turning a disused Subway store into a replica bus station, seeing Jardine’s creative vision come into effect.Īs the plot was set at night, the filming schedule would begin when the sun went down and would end at first light.
Cerrone is a natural entertainer and an exceedingly proficient handyman. "Cowboy" is Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone, one of the most experienced and beloved fighters in UFC history. "It is a lot of pressure but I absolutely love it." I wrote, produced, acted, directed, helped with the edit," Jardine said. With a hoped-for release date of September, the initial goal is to get the film shown at South by Southwest and Sundance, to grab the attention of both investors and the industry’s major players. Perhaps he will find a way to turn his love for gaming into a career after his days in MMA are done.Jardine, 45, recently wrapped filming on a small budget neo-noir 25-minute short titled "El Paso 11:55" in which he had to do "basically everything" and where factors like sunset and sunrise times were enough to set him on edge.
It takes over a person’s life and it can feel like they don’t have time to do anything else besides work on their stream, just to make a career out of it.įor now, Johnson is going to continue letting Twitch streaming be a hobby. He’s never been shy about that, but the level of work and luck required to be successful on Twitch is just as exhausting as Johnson said. Craig really wanted to go for his vision which was an elaborate shot with no cuts and John said, ‘Go ahead, but I can’t stop the sun from coming up.’ So they went for it and Craig called action and as they were watching the shot on the monitor, it was all going smoothly and John whispered to Craig, ‘I think you’re going to get your. “But then it came to a point where I was like, ‘Why am I doing this? I don’t get to go to bed with my wife. At the time, he was making around $3,000 per month from streaming, enough to cover his mortgage. “My schedule basically consisted of this: I would go to the gym, train for a session, stream afterward, then get my second session in, come home, eat dinner, kiss my wife, and then go downstairs and stream for another two hours,” Johnson said. I couldn’t do it,” Johnson said during an interview on The Washington Post’s Friday live stream, Press Play.
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“Wake up every day and stream full time? … Oh god no. Eventually, though, he decided it wasn’t for him because of the absurd schedules that Twitch streamers typically have. While talking with the Washington Post, Johnson explained how he was fully prepared to make the jump to becoming a full-time Twitch streamer after his MMA career was finished. For awhile, he was streaming so often that it was essentially a second job for him, and in a lot of ways, it was. He recently checked out the hottest game on Steam, Lost Ark.
When he’s not training, it’s not uncommon to see him on online playing the next big thing. Johnson has been an avid streamer on Twitch for years. For a long time, Johnson already knew exactly what it was going to be: a full time Twitch streamer. Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson is one of the most decorated fighters in MMA history, but with Johnson clearly in the latter half of his fighting career, plenty of folks have wondered what his next step is.