Edge was interviewed for an article with TheWrap and the WWE Hall Of Famer dived into the topic as to why wrestlers and Hollywood make the perfect match for movie magic. Edge is currently featured on History Channel’s Vikings series and he goes into how the trials and tribulations of being a wrestler on the road can be beneficial to weathering the troubles of Tinseltown. Below are a few quotes:
Edge on how wrestling keeps you humble:
“Wrestling is a very demanding thing,” he told TheWrap. “But you’re also your own manager. You book your own rental cars, you book your own hotels. You carry your own bags. Your day begins as soon as you wake up and it ends when you get to bed. And it could be in a Motel 6 because there are no other hotels open and it’s 4 o’clock in the morning. That keeps you humble and it keeps you hungry.”
On how being a top promo guy can be beneficial for acting in front of the camera:
“I think the best promo guys make it sound like it’s not a promo,” Copeland said. “Instead of it sounding like — and obviously the era changed — it wasn’t the ’80s where, like, a Hulk Hogan promo or a Warrior promo or a Macho Man promo worked, because that’s what it was then. It has since become more of a nuanced thing. And it has to sound conversational.”
“It still has to be big and Ultimate Warrior-esque at times because that’s its nature. But there’s a lot more levels and layers now,” Copeland, who started acting on Syfy’s “Haven” as a tie-in to its “SmackDown,” continued. “And I think if you made it to the top with your promos as part of the package, it’s because you could speak and you made it sound like it wasn’t this rehearsed thing. Because a lot of the times it probably isn’t. A lot of the times you probably have bullet points and you’re feeling it. And when you can start to feel an audience and react to what’s happening organically and be able to keep all of those plates in the air, I think it is good training to a set and having a script and going, ‘Right, OK, I can adapt on the fly if the director sees this scene happening a different way. I can adapt on the fly if the other actor takes it this direction’ because you are used to adapting on the fly live.”
You can read TheWrap‘s full interview by going here.
