The Miz hopes his next Hollywood movie is a big one.
WWE Superstar The Miz was recently a guest on Out of Character with Ryan Satin to discuss a wide variety of subjects. During the interview, The Miz confirmed his desire to play Johnny Cage in the upcoming sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat movie.
“I want to play Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat; I have been working on my splits,” The Miz revealed. “I’ve been working on my kicks, 100%. As soon as I saw that Mortal Kombat was out and there was no Johnny Cage yet, and my name was literally trending worldwide number one,” [fans said] ‘We want Miz as Johnny Cage.’ I was like if they want that to happen,’ Miz explained, ‘I need to basically make sure that I am prepared and ready that if that opportunity presents itself, then I will be ready and focused. So I called my trainer that helped me with Marine 6; I was like, how do you do these intro kicks? I need them left-handed and right-handed because Johnny can do both. And so yeah, I’ve been working on that. Working on the splits. I’m almost there.”
If the former two-time WWE Champion were to land this role, it would easily be his biggest opportunity in Hollywood to date. The Mortal Kombat video game franchise has been around since 1992 and has had three live-action movies depicting the game.
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