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BY GEORGE DICKIE Some actors talk about how putting on the costume and standing before a mirror helps them get into the headspace of their character. Was that the case for you with the wrestling togs in "Heels"? Well, it's funny that you should mention that. My friend Emily (Bett Rickards) on my previous job on "Arrow" said that to me, which I didn't realize. We're talking like three or four years into the show. She said, "When you put on the Arrow costume, you stand different, you speak different, your posture's different." And I said, "Yeah, like during a take." And she goes, "No, not during a take." She goes, "Just when you put it on in general, even if we're hanging around behind the scenes, everything changes." And the cool thing about wearing your wrestling gear, which I really think of frankly as sort of like a superhero costume or a supervillain costume, as the case may be, you don't really have any room to hide. I mean, you're either wearing a Speedo or Spandex. You know, we call them trunks in the wrestling world but there's no room for you to hide. So it forces you to get out there and be yourself, like ripping the Band-Aid off. What did you learn about wrestling that surprised you? The thing that'll surprise everybody, and this sounds really simple, is the ring. ... It's not that big. It's three strides across. It's three big strides for any adult but the mat is bouncy but it's bouncy because there's a wood plank underneath it, not because it's a trampoline because it's not. And the ropes, they really do look like ropes and you see the guys hit them and you think, "Oh, well, that must feel fine." No, they're metal cables with tape on them and learning to hit them means several days of pain as you sort of like get your back into it. Some of the most basic wrestling things that you see real pro wrestlers do that seem like it shouldn't be a big deal, they're a big f... deal. They hurt and they're the toughest things to master. OF 'HEELS' ON STARZ Stephen Amell 10 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • August 22 - 28, 2021 BEST LEE MARVIN MOVIES "The Big Heat" (1953) Marvin plays a gangster pursued by a homicide detective (Glenn Ford), who pays a big price for opposing the Mob, in director Fritz Lang's celebrated noir melodrama. "The Wild One" (1953) Though it mainly was Marlon Brando's movie, Marvin made an impression as a rival motorcycle-gang leader in this drama, which Turner Classic Movies will show as part of its all-day "Summer Under the Stars" tribute to Marvin on Saturday, Aug. 28. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) Marvin plays the titular Valance, a troublemaker whose actions prompt a link between a lawyer (James Stewart) and a rugged local (John Wayne), in director John Ford's superb Western. "Donovan's Reef" (1963) Marvin is rowdy fun, as is fellow star John Wayne, as they work again with director Ford in this story of scheming military- veteran comrades who make French Polynesia their base (though the picture was shot in Hawaii). "The Killers" (1964) As a too-curious hit man, Marvin gets to be properly brutal in this adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway short story that was made for television, but ultimately deemed too violent to debut there. "Ship of Fools" (1965) In director Stanley Kramer's large and impressive cast, Marvin is excellent as a former baseball player who's one of the passengers on an early-1930s voyage. "Cat Ballou" (1965) Marvin became an Oscar winner in the dual roles of a drunken Western legend and a coolly sinister villain in this satire of the genre. "The Professionals" (1966) The characters played by Marvin and Burt Lancaster are among the mercenaries hired to retrieve a tycoon's kidnapped wife in director-screenwriter Richard Brooks' first-rate Western adventure. "The Dirty Dozen" (1967) Easily one of Marvin's signature projects, director Robert Aldrich's great World War II classic features him as a major given the task of training 12 convicts for a mission that could earn them amnesty if they succeed ... and survive. "Point Blank" (1967) Rightfully reputed as one of the grittiest melodramas of the '60s, this revenge saga casts Marvin as a double-crossed thief out to even the score with his former partner (John Vernon) and ex-wife (Sharon Acker). "Hell in the Pacific" (1969) Reuniting with director John Boorman, Marvin is one of only two actors – the other being Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune – in this tale of soldiers who boil World War II down to a microcosm when they're both stranded on the same island. "Monte Walsh" (1970) In more of a character study than he normally did, Marvin is first-rate as the title cowboy, who struggles with the realization that the Old West as he's known it is slipping away. The film was directed by noted cinematographer William A. Fraker ("Bullitt"). "Emperor of the North" (1973) Working again with filmmaker Robert Aldrich, Marvin impressively gets his hands dirty – along with every other part of him – as a hobo who's the target of a vicious conductor (Ernest Borgnine, also a co-star of "The Dirty Dozen"). "The Dirty Dozen" "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" "Donovan's Reef" BY JAY BOBBIN