WWE Hall of Famer Adam Copeland aka Edge recently spoke with Joshua Caudill for Crave Online to promote the new WWE Studios film Interrogation, which will be available tomorrow. Below are some interview highlights:
Edge talks about Interrogation and his character Lucas Nolan:
He’s an interesting cat. What drew me to the script is that he has a lot of layers. He has a lot of baggage [laughs]. That’s a great challenge to try and tackle. One of the things I liked about the script is that it was very “meaty” from a dialogue perspective as well as from an action perspective.
Shooting guns is great and it’s fun but eventually you want to do more. That’s what I liked about Lucas. He has a lot more going on. He’s an interrogator so he has to mentally be on his toes and happens to come up against a character in this movie that is just as on his toes. It’s a cat and mouse between Vasti [Patrick Sabongui) and Lucas. It was a lot of fun.
Edge reveals what fans should expect from Interrogation:
In terms of an action movie, it’s more than that. There are explosions and gunplay and car chases and all of that but there are layers. If you enjoy movies and want to see more of your character, this movie has that.
It’s a different character than what I have played before, which is nice and it has nothing to do with “Edge.” But it was a good time and if they enjoy it as much as we had fun filming it, that’s all you can ask for.
Edge explains the biggest challenges in acting versus wrestling:
I think pulling everything back was initially the biggest challenge. I didn’t know I was doing it. I didn’t know I would make these facial expressions that you just naturally get in wrestling to convey everything to a larger live audience.
When you’re trying to get an emotion across to 85,000 people who are sitting right there, it has to be bigger. All of the movements have to be bigger but when you have a camera on your coverage and it’s there and tight like that, every little nuance is picked up. That was what I didn’t understand initially.
Edge reveals which spot he can’t believe he got away with in WWE:
Probably diving into the flaming table. It was my idea, stupidly and of course, I knew Mick [Foley] would be in because he’s just as stupid as I am. I didn’t think everybody else would sign off on that [laughs] but when everyone did, I was surprised. To pull it off with only a few burns and some burnt hair [laughs] is one where I’m like ‘How did we pull that off?’ How did it get through all of the levels that it had to? The margin for error in that was so miniscule.
