WWE Superstar Big Show recently talked to Movie Pilot in promoting his new film Vendetta.
Big Show talks about the role he plays in the movie, how it’s a new change for him, working with Dean Cain and directors the Soska Twins, and more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Big Show Talks Vendetta, Playing An Agressive Character:
Yeah, that was the Soska Twins, Jen and Sylvia. If you know anything about those girls, they’re really go-getters and are positive on what they want from a character. Which is really cool to work with because they were meticulous about how they wanted the character to be and how dark they wanted it. It was a lot of fun working with them. A lot of times I would leave the set at the end of the day and go, “Wow, that was really, really violent. Holy smokes.” And when I saw it, I was really happy with how it turned out. It’s not a likable character unless you’re into bad guys. If you’re into bad guys, then you’re probably going to like my character in this one. He’s definitely a jerk, first class.
Can we expect his character to be likeable, based on past comedic/light hearted roles like The Waterboy or Knucklehead?
There’s none of that. There’s nothing redeemable or likable about anything my character does in this movie. My character’s very dark. And if you look at the movie, you have Dean Cain, who’s America’s golden boy that played Superman and is a good guy in real life and he had to do some really dark things to go after me. He had to become a monster to get to the monster. And it was really great to see the arc of his character, too.
Big Show On Working With Dean Cain:
It was kind of eerie, man. Number one, that smile is really Dean Cain. He has that smile for everyone and he has positive energy. I try to explain to people that during the fight scenes, obviously, I don’t have a stunt double. No one looks like me, so unfortunately I get to do my own stunts. But they had a stunt double for Dean Cain and Dean did 95% of his own fight scenes. I can’t think of anything that Dean didn’t do. There were some fight scenes that are very violent and very rough and that’s Dean in there. The fight scenes twenty-five, thirty seconds to a minute long fight scenes, but those are seven to eight hour days of getting the fight scenes and doing the different scenes from different angles. Dean is on the ground, smacked up against the wall and there’s an actor of his experience and caliber right there in the middle of it. I was a Dean Cain fan and respected him, but this took it to a whole ‘nother level. Like, “Wow, man, you’re one of us.” If that makes any sense. Stunt guys, wrestler guy; we put or bodies through a lot of stress and a lot of abuse but that’s what we’re supposed to do and then you see an actor like Dean Cain who’s such a great actor and steps up to the plate and says “Let’s go, you guys.” His energy was so good and so positive to the set. He makes it so easy. You can get in there with the wrong guy who’s a little bit whiny and complains, who doesn’t want to do it and it makes things difficult for everyone to work around that and Dean Cain set that pace and it was inspiring to all of us. He gets up and goes and it shows why he’s successful.
