George Lucas' Daughter Can Kick Your Ass
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sports, George Lucas
Before you continue bad mouthing George Lucas for what he's done to your childhood, first with the Star Wars prequels and now with the disappointing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you might want to worry that he'll send his daughter after you. Wait, what? Yeah, that's George's daughter, Amanda "Powerhouse" Lucas, in the image on the right. She's a member of an American all-female MMA (mixed martial arts) fight team, and she's seen here duking it out with a Kiwi kickboxer during a recent Auckland, New Zealand-set event titled Princesses of Pain. And according to Stuff.co.nz, footage of the bout may be featured in a planned reality series about the formation of a women's international fighting league as well as on the news program 20/20. 27-year-old "Powerhouse" Lucas appeared in all three of her father's Star Wars prequels, portraying the dancer "Diva Funquita" in The Phantom Menace, "Adnama, patron of the Outlander Club" in Attack of the Clones and "Senator Terr Taneel" in Revenge of the Sith. She also voiced a separate character in The Phantom Menace, Neimoidian communications officer "Tey How" (she was credited under the pseudonym Tyger). Outside of the Star Wars films, she's worked as a hip-hop teacher and has spent years training in multiple martial arts, including kickboxing, Muay Thai and Brazilian ju-jitsu. According to New Zealand's TV3, Lucas lost her debut bout, but she did win a medal for "gutsiest fighter," and according to the Princesses of Pain website, the whole match ended in a tie between Team America and Team Australasia, each winning 3 bouts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-02-2008 @ 7:07PM
mike green said...
Indy 4 great fun, what is "dissapointing" is your attemp to pass your opinion as fact
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6-02-2008 @ 7:11PM
Christopher Campbell said...
Mike, while I admit I was a little disappointed, I also admit Indy 4 was great fun. My usage of the word in the post, though, was meant more generally, as in its disappointing most moviegoers (from what I've noticed).
6-03-2008 @ 7:32AM
Leo M. said...
I agree with you green...disappointing? that's funny
I only have two friends that didn't like it...out of many
6-02-2008 @ 7:45PM
Mr. R said...
Couldn't he just have a hot daughter like any other millionaire in show business? Ask Ron Howard or Steven Tyler how to do it, George!!!
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6-02-2008 @ 7:46PM
mike green said...
I've seen Indy 4 twice, both in packed theaters and at then end there was bog applauses, and with speed racer and narnia was just silence, people and specially critics expect to much out of this adventures series, the most an Indy movie can posible acomplish is to be fun, and this one is, if you want drama/plot/character arc/meaning go look for it somewhere else
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6-02-2008 @ 10:59PM
G said...
"Hip-hop teacher" is an oxymoron. Maybe she was teaching hip-hop dance?
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6-02-2008 @ 11:05PM
Christopher Campbell said...
I think oxymoron is completely the wrong word here. But I know what you mean. Still, you can just say hip hop teacher instead of hip hop dance teacher. Just as you can say ballet, jazz, modern, etc. without the dance part.
6-03-2008 @ 10:48AM
Gothamgal said...
Very cool news.
The link to her IMDB page contains the wrong picture. That's a picture of Lucas with his younger daughter, Katie. The info is correct though.
The wookiepedia has a correct photo--http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/0/05/Amanda_Lucas.jpg/180px-Amanda_Lucas.jpg
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6-03-2008 @ 10:50AM
LaLeLiLoLu said...
WAUGH!
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6-03-2008 @ 12:00PM
juicerino said...
The word 'disappointing' no longer has any meaning to George Lucas.
It is a word only to be used when you actually think something will be well made and then find out that it is not.
I have not had this hope for a George Lucas production since May of 1999.
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6-03-2008 @ 1:40PM
Petro1734 said...
"Indy 4 was great fun, what is "disappointing" is your attempt to pass your opinion as fact."
Right on Mr. Green ! Indy 4 was awesome !
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6-03-2008 @ 6:10PM
le screech! said...
I work in the VFX industry and it's unanimous among my colleagues that INDY 4 was awful. I can't argue that it did extremely well but calling it a worthy sequel to the Indiana Jones legacy is a joke.
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6-18-2008 @ 9:54AM
Terry Jones said...
Does Amanda Lucas fight in or near the same weight class as the awesome Gina Corano of MMA?
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