Triple H Comments on Acting, Mickey Rourke & 'The Wrestler'

What did you think of the movie The Wrestler and Mickey Rourke’s portrayal of a wrestler? I thought it was a phenomenal movie, and that Mickey was unbelievable. He’s a great, great talent, and a huge fan of the WWE. And I think that’s why he chose to do that role—he connected with it passionately. But it could have been about anybody; it could have been about a rock star. It’s about someone who makes bad choices in their life, and at the end of the day, can’t move on. I mean, that movie could have been Mike Tyson. It could have been a lot of different things. But it happened to have been about our business.

How true to life do you feel The Wrestler was? I feel [it was] true to life for a very small segment. Like when they’re portraying Mickey as working on what they call the independent scene of wrestling—that’s very small. Is it reflective of the WWE? Absolutely not. In no way. Does it exist out there? Sure, it does. I think that portrayal of it was accurate. You know, from the standpoint of a guy so willing to hang on to that pipedream that he will go to the lowest depths of what it is he does, to try to hang on to it. But for every guy who ends up that way, there’s 10 guys that end up in a great place. But that’s not a very exciting story! So it’s much easier to tell the other one.

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