"We felt a kind of anticipation around the fans to reimagine the character," says Bruckner of the decision to cast Clayton, a trans woman. "We knew we wanted Pinhead to be a woman. Jamie was just the right person for the role.
The original book that it's based on, The Hellbound Heart, was suggestive of a female Pinhead, and the comic books also explored the idea. There's also plenty of fan art, wonderful works that all theorized the possibility of Pinhead as a woman. So it only felt appropriate to us.
Krav Maga's emphasis on real-world self-defense and potentially lethal techniques makes it less suitable for the regulated environment of MMA competition. 1. Krav maga techniques are designed for survival and often escape rather than "victory" or dominance.
Because well taught Krav Maga is so comprehensive in what it teaches, it makes it very effective in a street fight situation, where anything can happen (it's also why you really need an instructor with a huge depth of experience and knowledge you don't learn to defend effectively against all of those scenarios ...