Mark-Paul Gosselaar was spotted working on his bjj alongside former costar Mario Lopez a while back.
30 yrs Later ‘Saved By The Bell’ TV Stars Are Training Jiu-Jitsu Together
As it was recently revealed Gosselaar has been training bjj for a decade!
“I am a practitioner of Brazilian jiujitsu,” he says. “I’ve been training for over 10 years. And the stunt coordinator is a practitioner as well, of jiujitsu. A lot of the stunt guys we were working with were all jiujitsu and Muay Thai. There was a very specific scene in which we only grappled — no punches thrown. All it was was grappling and chokes, sweeps. It was fun to coordinate that and present it to the director.”
When a fan asks if Wolgast is Gosselaar’s most physically demanding role yet, he affirms it.
“I got beat up quite a bit this last season. It could be my age has finally caught up to me,” the 45-year-old says with a bit of a smile.
Gosselaar tells Latimes:
“I was very proud of the stunts we were able to accomplish. I enjoy any time we were allowed to be physical. I think that’s one of my strengths, that I can incorporate that into my roles.”
Gosselaar plays former military operative Brad Wolgast. Wolgast is initially tasked with kidnapping a young girl for a dangerous government project to cure disease but bonds with her and helps her resist Project Noah. As one might expect with a so ominously named experiment, its test subjects turn monstrous and eventually set off the equivalent of a Great Flood — a vampiric plague that overthrows society.
