All Elite Wrestling’s ‘Timeless’ Toni Storm on Filming ‘Queen of the Ring’ and Ending Her Feud With Mariah May: ‘I’ve Filed a Restraining Order’

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Lauren Coates While All Elite Wrestling fans know her as high-maintenance, low-saturation champion “Timeless” Toni Storm, moviegoers will meet her Clara Mortensen in Ash Avildsen’s Mildred Burke biopic “Queen of the Ring,” in theaters now.

As both a lifelong wrestling fan and an active participant in the sport, Storm says she was honored to embody an early women’s wrestling pioneer like Mortensen. “It was surreal for me, very surreal.

Clara, she was a real person once upon a time. I felt like there was an uncanny resemblance as well. I had no idea I looked so good in yellow.” Despite limited footage, Storm worked to nail Mortensen’s specific in-ring mannerisms. “I studied absolutely everything and really tried to nail stepping into the role of a female wrestler from the 30s and 40s.

When I was filming the actual wrestling part of it, I really tried to make it look a little more old-school and wrestle the same style they did back in the day.