<![CDATA[io9: serena williams]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: serena williams]]> http://io9.com/tag/serenawilliams http://io9.com/tag/serenawilliams <![CDATA[Tennis Star Plans Super Trip From Courts To Multiplexes]]> Having just won the Wimbledon ladies tennis tournament for the third time, it's time for Serena Williams to start turning her attention to new frontiers, and we're not talking making mixtapes for Nike; apparently, she's hoping to become a superhero.

The UK Daily Mirror newspaper reported that Williams is looking to step up her acting career (She's previously appeared as a guest on er and Law & Order: SVU) with a meatier role with a tougher stance on evil:

I don't get the opportunities but I would love to play a superhero character... With my body type I would be good at action movies, maybe doing my own stunts. I would be really good at that.

Hey, Marvel: Looking for a Captain Marvel for your Avengers movie? I think a stunt-casting opportunity just presented itself...

Serena Williams wants to play movie superhero [Mirror.co.uk]

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5308779&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jumper Teleporting Through Commercials]]> Advertising has gone so meta that only teleportation can explain it. In this ad, Jumper star Hayden Christensen uses his teleporting gift to throw himself into Serena Williams' computer ad. So basically he's leaping out of a commercial for the film, which is about teleporting mutants, and into an old ad for Hewlett Packard, starring Williams. It's a new mutant kind of advertising synergy, more like cross-cannibalism than cross-promotion. Be very scared. 'Jumper' ad leaps between products [Variety]

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