Jesszilla | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Jesselyn “Jesszilla” Silva is serious about boxing, and at 10 years old trains seriously with dreams of becoming a p | dG1fbXhRVkhtQWhMUDQ

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00:00So Jessalyn, if you were going to make this movie, where would it start?

00:04It would start, like, from the beginning.

00:07At nine years old, Jessalyn Silva has, pound for pound, more ferocity and drive than boxers twice her age.

00:14She has that desire to be different, and that's the uniqueness.

00:16At nine years old, I don't have to ask her to do anything twice.

00:19Watching her fight drains me.

00:22Like, I feel like I'm getting hit, almost.

00:25I already know that I'm gonna become professional.

00:28I know I want to do that.

00:30Jess, do you feel like being a girl in boxing is harder than being a boy?

00:35Yes, because it's a male-dominated sport, and we're girls.

00:40Nobody's gonna wait for us.

00:41What?

00:42The girl ain't gonna.

00:44When people find out that she's a boxer, they think because she's a girl, it's like more of a playful type of thing.

00:51But she don't play.

00:52This sport comes with blood, sweat, and tears.

00:55So definitely sometimes I feel like crying, definitely sometimes I do cry.

00:58I feel like I want to make the team, I want to go pro, I want to have a good resume.

01:05With boxing, I want to be great.

01:07That's the goal, to be great.

01:09To leave your name in the history of boxing.

01:11Not even just female boxing.

01:13The whole thing boxing.

01:14I want everybody to know Jess wants to be a female.

01:17What I did, what I'm trying to do.

01:19Getting hit in the face is not fun, but it's fun to hit somebody in the face.

01:24Okay.

01:24You