Bryony “Killer Bee” Tyrell spent seven years as an intensive care nurse. She spent her nights becoming one of Britain’s leading female cage fighters. She raised two kids through all of it.

Nobody on the ward had any idea. Now Gemma Arterton is playing her in a feature film.

In this episode: why weight cutting kills more fighters than punches do, what her coach shouted at her from the corner in Belgium when she was too tired to stand, why she’d rather fight 15,000 people than speak to them, and why at 46 she’s still competing and moving into stunt work.

She also put both of us on the floor before we started recording. She fights at 52kg.

Bryony is the clearest example we’ve had on this show of something that keeps coming up: the people doing extraordinary things almost never quit their normal life to do it. They just refuse to accept that the ordinary one is all they get.

Follow the film:
https://www.instagram.com/killa_bee_film/

Shot at:
Hoplite BJJ
https://www.hoplitebjj.co.uk/

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