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 Frank Grillo has become a very busy man in Hollywood, as the 55-year-old actor carved out quite the niche for himself in the world of action movies. Following a run in the MCU as Crossbones and as the lead in The Purge franchise, Grillo partnered with director Joe Carnahan on a production company, War Party Films, with one mission in mind: bring back the short, fun, and relatively cheap to make action movie genre that dominated in the 80s.

The latest from them is Boss Level, starring Grillo, Mel Gibson, and Naomi Watts, and his love of sports and fighting comes in with some of the supporting cast, which includes Rob Gronkowski, Rampage Jackson, and Rashad Evans. Ahead of the movie’s release on Hulu on March 5, Grillo spoke with Uproxx about the long journey to get this movie out, his love of boxing and how it’s guided his career, why sometimes it’s important to make a fun action movie that doesn’t make total sense, playing with Hollywood toys like “Car Shooters,” and discussions for him to return to The Purge.

How did you get into boxing when you were younger and how has that been a part of your life, really throughout this journey into the acting world?

I got into boxing when I was a little kid. I first got into boxing at the CYO at the church, when I was like 12 or 13 years old. And really liked it, but didn’t like getting punched in the face.

Sure.

And then you know I wrestled in school, and that got me into martial arts. I started doing Muay Thai a bit, and then I got back into boxing about 17 and I never stopped. Look for me boxing, I hate to say this, it’s a terrible cliche, but it really is a metaphor for life. I mean, it really is for me. I box every day. Sometimes I take my boxing trainer on movie sets with me. If I don’t, I find the best boxing trainers through my friends. The good thing about my life now is I have a lot of access. So, you know, boxing to me is as important as breathing.

You mentioned you do martial arts and stuff like that, but why do you always come back to boxing?

I think there’s something about boxing, which to me is like — and Jiu Jitsu for me it was a little bit like this but boxing, much more so — it’s like chess. It’s as intellectual as it is physical. And, you know, it’s also a little bit like golf, one day you get up there you’re throwing up beautiful left hook, and the next day, I’m sparring and I feel like I’m boxing the wrong way. And so that element of constantly trying to perfect is what gets me excited.

It’s interesting you mention that because I golf as well, and I’ve never really thought of the parallels there but it is, because it’s this constant quest of … perfection can never come in either sport, you’re never going to be able to do it, but you get that taste of it that one time and you’re like “I can replicate this.”

You know, I often say to my sons and to younger people, it’s not about achieving perfection. It’s the pursuit of perfection. And that’s where you learn so much about yourself, about life, about other people, and then about what you’re doing, obviously.

And I think there’s a parallel there with making any kind of art, is you’re also doing the same thing, right? When you make a movie, you’re always chasing that perfect take, but like it’s it’s never going to be maybe exactly there but when you get that feeling, it’s kind of the same thing, right?

Absolutely the same. That’s a great analogy and, you know, it’s also the discipline of never giving up, of not quitting, sports or fighting. You know, I box with a lot of Mexicans. They don’t quit. They don’t even like to step backwards. You know so many people that I came up with an acting, at my age, are gone. They never made it because they left. It wasn’t that they weren’t talented, it’s that they didn’t have the wherewithal to stay in it. I think through boxing and martial arts, that discipline has given me the discipline to continue in this career, and it’s … look, I’ve carved out a bit of a niche for myself and it’s worked.

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I read an interview you did, I think back in 2016, with one of my colleagues Mike Ryan, where you talked about that. Where you were 50 and you were finally kind of finding this level of fame that you hadn’t been in before. And that doesn’t happen for a lot of guys, but it is that discipline, that willing to grind for 20 years to get to this point, right?

 

 

 

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