WWE Hopes for 'Legendary' Entrance into Indie Film Market

When it comes to low-key independent movies, professional wrestlers are hardly the first names on anyone's go-to casting list. But World Wrestling Entertainment wants to change that.

The WWE's most popular and charismatic wrestlers are happily trading gut punches for acting chops.

"These movies allow us to entertain people in a different way," says Paul "Triple H" Levesque, who stars in a film coming out next year called The Chaperone. "Wrestling is big and over the top and dramatic. Movies are a different world. In a movie you can squint your eyes and it reads a million times bigger than a whole face reaction. You just really have to pull it back."

"The movies we do are not what people would stereotypically think," says Levesque. "The stereotype goes 'WWE, the wrestling guys, they blow stuff up and beat up people and there's going to be a big car chase and 100 cars are going to get ruined.'

"People don't care about that," he says. "They care about good stories."...More?

source: usatoday.com