Insane-Kanojo

Lucy Lawless was not a particularly burly woman, but somehow she made Xena seem like a fucking tank and I don’t understand how.

that’s a damn good point

This is because the tank is not concerned with muscle or endurance. Tank is purely a matter of 60% attitude, 30% mindset, and 110% fuckaroundandfindout.

I've also seen another version of the commentary on this post speculating that she was also SHOT like male action star at the time - which has nothing to do with size, but with posture and staging and yes, attitude. 😊

She definitely was permitted to show -effort- in a way that female action stars often are not. She gets to grunt, yell, make weird angry faces, put FORCE and ANGER and JOY and just, you know. Personality, generally, into her fighting. It makes her feel more real, which means that when she does impressive or impossible things, they also feel more real and thus more impressive.

WHAT emotion is this meant to convey