Get some. Amber Heard as: Baja Miller Additional Cast: Sean Faris, Djimon Hounsou Production Status: Completed Release Date: March 14, 2008 Directed By: Jeff Wadlow Screenwriters: Chris Hauty, Robert Munic Genre: Action, Drama MPAA Rating: N/a Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) never goes looking for trouble, but it always seems to find him. Since the break-up of his parents' marriage, it's everywhere he turns. Freshly transplanted from a sleepy Iowa town to the heat and flash of new-money Orlando, Florida, Jake seems headed for even more rocky terrain as he is pulled into an underground fighting league — a kind of fight club for teens. With the help of his new group of friends — a fight and life-savvy coach, a free-thinking and adventurous girlfriend, and a scrawny but charming best friend — Jake manages to rise above the chaos around him. But just as he's beginning to feel like he's in control, his world is turned upside down once again by an unrelenting campaign to get him back in the ring. In the end, when the safety of his friends and family is on the line, Jake has only one option. Never. Back. Down. Heard plays Baja Miller, whose loyalties are put to the test when her boyfriend severely beats Jake up.

Filming Locations:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Orlando, Florida, USA

- Sean Faris gained 15 lbs. of muscle for his role.

- Previously titled Get Some, that line, "Get some", does however appear in the trailers as well as the tagline for the poster.

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"You wait until some of my films come out. It's funny because I do get a bunch of these roles and as a young woman in Hollywood you tend to get these girlfriend easier than one could imagine. I get them every day and I won't take a bad film, one that doesn't make me feel good when I fall asleep at night. But that being said, you do look at a character and sometimes it could never be anything more than 2 dimensional but in this case I play Baja Miller. I play a young girl in high school. There was a certain amount of truth Chris Hauty put into the subtext and back-story that made it easy to build a 3-d character out of the script."
- Amber Heard

"Everyone knew that girl in high school and in some cases you were that girl in high school. It's difficult because we all knew that girl and it's very important for me as an artist to imitate life with a sense of truth, story, and meaning. I'm not just in it for laughs and entertainment. When you take a script like this, it has a really strong message without putting it out aggressively."
- Amber Heard

"I think Baja Miller, my character, is a young girl who starts off as insecure and unsure of herself. Maybe even unintelligent, or so one would think. In Baja's first scene she pretends to not know the answer to a question in class that she knows very well. It serves as mirror to society; I think a very strong one. Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet. Sweet is what women go for these days in high school. I did, I felt that pressure. Thank god that I escaped high school and that whole thing but it is very important to address the issue because these young women might never even notice it. As you see in the film, it's very accurate. I think it's very organic."
- Amber Heard

"Baja Miller is the vehicle of this insecurity. She's afraid to even be smart. One would think it's just her character flaw but it's not. It's the mirror to society that she represents. She represents all of these young women who are just afraid that boys won't like them in they compete with them, if they're intelligence, if they're a challenge. We're told to shut up and smile and it works. I guess it makes life easier and she takes that path at the beginning, which is why she's dating Ryan (Cam Gigandet), the quintessential bad guy. She's just that girl who took that path to make her easier, easy to be popular, easy to shut up and smile. Then she meets Jake (Sean Faris) and he's everything she doesn't necessarily want and he really challenges her. They both have beautiful character arcs and they both carry each other to different places in the script than where they started."
- Amber Heard

"I play Baja Miller in the movie and it's a very important role because she serves as a mirror to society; to all those young girls that either you knew or you were. I believe that it's really important to address that. Art should and does imitate life. If we do it in a truthful manner, you'll walk away with a message. I read a fairly normal high school girl character and [I brought] my own life history into it as an actor. I came into this role and changed it quite a bit and made it very truthful. We are that girl or we knew that girl. So many young girls were taught at such a young age how to make things easier on yourself and it generally comes down to 'shut up and smile'. It's detrimental. That's why so many women go to college and find their husband at college and that's the end of that."
- Amber Heard

"I think part of the reason I do this role so accurately is that I was that girl too (who hides her intelligence). It's survival in a sense. You are in high school and you're thinking, 'this could be so much more, it could be so much easier if boys liked me' or 'if the girls liked me because the boys liked me' and it's horrible. As a human animal, I want to survive in that situation that is high school and you kind of adapt to be the girl that, even if you know the answer, you don't raise your hand. That's how the movie starts. She's in class and she purposefully does not answer a question when she's called on and she plays it dumb. I know what that feels like. You tell yourself to shut up."
- Amber Heard

"It was such a boys' club. I was the girl amongst seven boys who spent literally half of their days exercising and the other half pretending to fight. What else could be wrong with that picture? It was exhausting but fabulous of course."
- Amber Heard

"To be honest, after working with all these boys for months on end in Orlando, Florida, yeah, you really wanted to take some aggression out and kicking butt was a very polite way of putting it."
- Amber Heard

"What people don't understand is that films are so technical behind camera. It was planned out to the second. Every detail was planned out and choreographed so well that it was hard to get excited. It was done to such precision. We worked all night long, 14 hours night in Orlando, Florida during the summer. I don't recommend it." [On the fight scenes.]
- Amber Heard

"Never Back Down is directed by Jeff Wadlow and it stars Djimon Hounsou, Cam Gigandet and Sean Faris. It's sexy and kind of like The Fast & The Furious meets Karate Kid. It's action packed, real and brilliantly shot. It's also a neat story [about an underground fight club] and I'm sure it will be very popular."
- Amber Heard

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