There aren't a whole lot of women filmmakers and even fewer of them who choose to depict fighting, mayhem and group violence.
But Lexi Alexander, 31, is of a rare breed. A stuntwoman and a karate and kickboxing expert, she also knows soccer. "Green Street Hooligans" is her first feature film. "Some people said that the movie glorified, or justified hooliganism. I had no intention of doing that," she says. "In Europe, the consensus is to sweep all that under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist. I wanted to drag it out, and show the world what hooliganism was about in the most informative and entertaining way possible."
Did you get a lot of flak about making a movie like this -- we hear it's very much a man's world in the U.K. film industry.
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