Emily Bett Rickards learned to wrestle for Mildred Burke biopic

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- On The CW's Arrow, Emily Bett Rickards played a superhero's computer expert. In her new film, Queen of the Ring, premiering Saturday at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Rickards trained physically to portray real-life wrestler Mildred Burke.

"I was like, 'Oh, I feel like I can do that. I just haven't,'" Rickards told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "I've always been super active and I pick up things pretty fast."

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