Edge comments on entering the acting world, The Rock’s success:
“With WWE, it was every night, every night, year in, year out. When you get used to that, always knowing when the next gig is coming and all of that, there’s a certain sense of comfort that comes with that,” he said. “One of the things that I had to understand with [acting] is it kind of feast or famine. You do a bunch of auditions, some hit, some don’t, and you can’t take it personally.
Then you’ve got a guy like Rock, who’s in his position. He’s writing and making stuff and telling them what he’s going to make, but not everybody’s in that position,” said Copeland. “It’s an interesting little difference there that I guess I knew going in. I think if acting had been my only gig, I might have been worried about that. If all I ever wanted to be was an actor and that’s what I was trying to do, and I was a starving artist since I was 17 years old, if I didn’t already have my wrestling career under my belt, I’m sure it would be something, ‘Oh, okay, this is strange.’ But one of the great things of having worked for WWE for so long and having the career I had is that I’m doing this because I like it, which puts the power in your hands in a sense, because you’re not just scrambling everywhere to try and get the next part.”
How he finally got involved with the new show “Edge and Christian’s Show That Totally Reeks of Awesomeness”:
“Eventually they talked me into it. He’s [Christian] still under contract, but I’m not. I think the sell job had to be to me.
They’ve given us a lot of range to just start writing stuff and come up with a lot of weird things. So far, nobody seems to be batting an eyelash,” he said. “We’ll see once it airs if we still have that kind of freedom. As of right now, it’s just been fun. It was a nice little dip of the toes back in after the surgery to do something creative again.”
On filming during Wrestlemania 32 weekend:
“I haven’t been in a few years, since they inducted me, actually, just because I was always doing something,” he said. “This year, I think we’re going to try and go out and do some filming for our show, and just get it all in one fell swoop, get some filming done with current guys that are on the roster, because you don’t want to ask them to fly up to New York on a day off.”
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