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All it required was Gloria and Property Brother Drew Scott beating the crap out of each other.
Is a lawyer from Universal gonna come in like, Shut this all down!
What is this lady up to?
But when we first saw them punch each other, I was just delighted.
She wanted a brawl that felt brutal as well as believable, grounded in the characters season-long arcs.
And the hilarious thing is the truth is not that exciting.
The months of recovery required meant she would still be healing when production started on season two that fall.
This is the exact thing that would happen to someone in the group.
When youre really hard on your body, it all comes back to bite you, says Scardino.
We could try Adam Scott; we could try John Mulaney.
I was like, Can we license this somehow?
How do we use this?
An unsympathetic Drew tells them, Life isnt a wish machine.
You dont always get to do the exact thing youre best at.
For me, its this, and subjects them to his fight reel.
Infuriated and unconvinced, Gloria decides to get to the bottom of the brothers refusal.
(Scardino reads this text exchange with unbridled excitement.)
Gatewood and her crew spent five days preparing the set for the single day the Property Brothers would film.
After four seasons of doing her own stunts onA.P.
Bio, Pell was determined to perform in the fight scene.
The result is funny but not in the slapstick-y,Three Stoogesway Scardino feared.
as he pushes Gloria against the kitchen island and her Eat shit, modern Jesus!
At the end of the fight, after Gloria triumphantly knees Drew with a Thats titanium, motherfucker!
(All she cared about was getting the answer.
She got the answer and then she probably shook their hand when she left, Pell says.
She was probably like, Youre very, very handsome in real life.)
That fight scene really reminded me that bodies heal, emotions heal.
In life, Ive learned that lesson many times.
