Roman Reigns will soon join the ranks of The Rock as a wrestler to grace the silver screen. In an interview with AOL, “The Big Dog” revealed that The Rock didn’t have say in him getting cast in the role of playing Hobbs’ brother and talked the differences between the squared circle and the Hollywood lights. Quotes are below:
Roman Reigns on the huge difference for him with WWE and film:
“Within WWE we kind of use a bunch of different disciplines in performing arts,” Anoa’i told AOL. “Where I’m at right now, the huge difference for me would be comparing [film] to the live performance. It’s what is so addicting about sports entertainment, about WWE, about professional wrestling, you get your feedback immediately. It’s very cool to be able to create a world within feature films, television. To build a role and then completely change from character to character. I like all of the different changes between the genres of film.”
On getting casted for Hobbs & Shaw without The Rock’s say:
“I had heard about the project and figured I’d just read for it, see how it goes,” Anoa’i said. “I don’t think Dwayne actually knew I was reading for it or interested in it at the beginning. Once my tape went out and they were happy with it, fairly serious [about me coming on], I think they told D.J. that I was in the hunt.”
On having a stunt double taking his bumps for a change:
“In the ring we don’t look at it as stunts, we’re just working,” Anoa’i said. “I’m so used to throwing my body around, the idea of doing it when nobody other than just the crew and people in production are watching, my adrenaline doesn’t get going for that. Having a stunt double, his name was Niko [Nedyalkov], great guy, I loved every bit of him, it was awesome.
“All I had to do was just look cool and stand there and say my lines, do the acting bit of it, but when it was time for me to get hit or do something crazy, Niko would be there. That was the cool part, especially where I was, resting, healing, being able to take advantage of that process and not beat my body up during the production, it was a nice spin on things for a change.”
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