Leslie Bibb Kicks... Groin?
Leslie Bibb, best known as cheerleader Brooke McQueen on WB's Popular, proved to be one tough cookie on the set of the new big-screen thriller The Skulls. "I did a lot of my own stunts," says Bibb, whose Skulls character gets into trouble while investigating a secret college fraternity. "It's just easier to do. It takes longer if you don't do it, because you gotta match and it looks like crap." Still, the 25-year-old actress confesses to TV Guide Online that not all of her stunt work in the movie went as smoothly as planned. In one scene, she says, she accidentally kicked a stuntman in the groin while hitting him repeatedly in the forehead and nearly pulling his ear off. "I was so bad, and I was like, `I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!' " she says. "But [director Rob Cohen] is like, `Don't stop! If you sell it, it looks real.' " Bibb says some of the scenes in which she was chased were so exhausting and frightening that
"I did a lot of my own stunts," says Bibb, whose Skulls character gets into trouble while investigating a secret college fraternity. "It's just easier to do. It takes longer if you don't do it, because you gotta match and it looks like crap."
Still, the 25-year-old actress confesses to TV Guide Online that not all of her stunt work in the movie went as smoothly as planned. In one scene, she says, she accidentally kicked a stuntman in the groin while hitting him repeatedly in the forehead and nearly pulling his ear off.
"I was so bad, and I was like, `I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!' " she says. "But [director Rob Cohen] is like, `Don't stop! If you sell it, it looks real.' "
Bibb says some of the scenes in which she was chased were so exhausting and frightening that she actually felt like throwing up. "You honestly are seeing me in fear mode," she says. Judge for yourself when The Skulls hits theaters later this month.