WWE Smackdown Live star Charlotte Flair recently spoke with That’s Magazine and below are some interview highlights:
If Ric Flair’s reputation is a burden or an asset:
“Both. Being a generational kid is hard. I couldn’t just, you know, show up one day as a 5’10” blonde and [have] the crowd view me however they wanted to. I already carried a last name they knew, so I from day one was compared to him. That’s kind of what’s driven me to where I am today. I want to be known as his daughter, but I also want to be known for my own work as well. So that’s a mixed blessing.”
Pressure to follow in her Dad’s footsteps:
“My brothers did. Both my brothers wanted to be professional wrestlers. I’m continuing my little brother’s dream, that’s why I started. And I definitely, I think, wanted to be where I am because I hated the pressure that they put on themselves and that they always wanted to live up [to], or just wanted to be like my dad and they couldn’t, so I feel like I’m doing it for them as well.”
How much her character draws off her real personality:
“Not that I’m not confident, but when I first started, I played sports my whole life so I wasn’t comfortable with doing my makeup and dressing up and being this image of what used to be called a diva. I had to learn how to carry myself in a different way and to be in front of the camera and [deal] with criticism. So I took all of that, and when I walk through that curtain, I find that confidence knowing that I’m playing a character. It’s everything I want to be in real life and sometimes I am, but you know, everyone has self-doubt [and] that character has that, I don’t know how. But it’s also having to have thick skin as a female in this business because you’re constantly under scrutiny due to social media.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
