Trish Stratus is happy to be back entertaining the WWE Universe once again.
WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus was a recent guest on Out of Character with Ryan Satin to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked if returning as a heel character was a bucket list item for her, Stratus played coy about the terminology before giving a rather heartfelt response.
“Is it entertaining? Is it fun? Is it truth? Is it something like oh, who else can cut this promo? You know what I mean? That’s kind of unique. So that’s the lore of it for me, right? And I just want to go out there and entertain,” Trish Stratus said. “I’m a performer first and foremost, and that’s what I want to do is I want to entertain. I want to go out there and do my performances. When I retired, what I took away like dabbling in other projects, whether it was movies or television shows, producing or doing commercials, whatever it was, all these different mediums, the experience that I got from WWE, first of all, was surprising.
“It was how well it translated into these different mediums, right? And the takeaway was that I love producing moments. I love being a storyteller, and that’s where we are in the ring. And it’s everything, even as a judge now on Canada’s Got Talent. I see that, like when I first got the call to be a judge, I was like, ‘Well, I’m not a dancer. I’m not a singer. Why are they asking me to be a Judge? I’m a wrestler,’ but then as I’m watching it, I’m like, no, I’m a performer, and these guys are performers. I saw the parallels, right? It’s a story, there’s the beginning, there’s an end, and there’s a story arc, and you’re in this moment, and so that’s what I love about it. So coming back is just doing this, and being in the moment is everything.”
When asked how it feels to come back to professional wrestling and receive that instant reaction from the crowd that you don’t get on a movie set, Stratus said there’s nothing like it. She noted how only a handful of people in the world have been able to truly experience it.
“It has been cool to like apply it to different mediums. Ultimately, yeah, coming back and having that instant gratification having the love from the crowd, there’s nothing like it,” Trish Stratus admitted. “And honestly, only a handful of people in this world can experience that or can do it. So yeah, I feel very lucky this many years later to go back and be able to do it again. And also like the experience that I’ve gained from the other mediums that I’ve been in or the life experience or whatever it is, or even to be sitting back as a fan.
“There was a point where I always said when I had a few injuries, what I loved about it was sitting back and watching the product again as a fan and then coming back into the mix and taking that like what made me excited, what evoked an emotion from me watching at home, I wanted to do that and just be aware of that cognizant of that knowing I can do that for the crowd and it sort of made me grow as a performer.
“So having said that; that’s the same sort of thing like this. How many years, I don’t know, 15 plus years, having that experience, life experience, and other experiences, be it acting in movies and things like that, taking that now and then bringing that to Trish Stratus, the performer, has been cool to apply for sure.”
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