Gayle Rankin from ‘The Incomer’ Shares How Her GLOW Wrestling Skills Enhance Fight Scenes
THE INCOMER
Section: NEXT (Sundance)
Director-screenwriter: Louis Paxton
Logline: Set on a remote Scottish isle, “The Incomer” follows siblings Isla and Sandy as they hunt birds and commune with mythical beings while resisting the encroachment of outsiders. Their world is disrupted by the arrival of Daniel, an awkward official tasked with relocating them.
Panelists: Louis Paxton, Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, and Grant O’Rourke
Sales Agent: Charades
Premiered: Jan. 22, 2026, at Eccles Theatre
Key Quote: Rankin shared her experience filming fight scenes with O’Rourke, drawing on her professional wrestling background from Netflix’s GLOW: “I did use my professional wrestling training. But it was interesting, because I would be like, ‘I’ll put him in a headlock. I can suplex him right now!’ And they’d be like, ‘Well, we don’t have television, so she wouldn’t know how to do that.’ So, there were rules of our world, which were really fun actually, for all of us, I think.”
Watch the full conversation in the video above.
