Former sixteen times WWE World Champion John Cena recently talked about taking movie roles early in his career. John Cena is considered as one of the biggest professional wrestler of all time and he is currently and active movie star of Hollywood.
John Cena made his WWE main roster debut back in 2002 against the Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle. He was praised vastly because of his amazing performance on his debut match. Every wrestling fan and critics where predicting that this guy is going to be one of the biggest deals in professional wrestling.
John Cena Reflects On His Movie Roles Early In His Career
As time passed, Cena slowly became the biggest name in professional wrestling. A total of sixteen world championships only in WWE is something that no one ever could achieve. There are so many other records that has been achieved by Cena are almost impossible to beat.
John Cena ruled the world of professional wrestling for a long period of time. This is something that has been achieved by the immortal Hulk Hogan only. Wrestlers like stone cold Steve Austin and the Rock could not even achieve such accomplishments like John Cena.
Recently the former sixteen times world champion John Cena spoke with Dermot & Dave where he recently talked about taking movie roles early in his career. He said;
“I don’t think we find opportunity, I think opportunity finds us. When it finds us, you have to be brave enough to jump. I certainly had a wonderful existence in WWE with no sense of slowing down.
“I took bit parts here and there where I had to expose a lot of myself on screen and redefine myself basically to be the butt of the joke for five years running now to get another chance. It started off as me doing a parody of myself on kids movies with a YouTube character called Fred.
“Then I got another opportunity and another. The conundrum is, WWE is constant. To be able to step away – you can’t step away to film Fast. I haven’t been there for the better half of two and a half years, and it’s strictly because I’ve been filming and they don’t allow you to do both.
“I took those small parts and could film in a weekend, then come back and make my dates. You have to find that balance. When I did those movies in the early 2000s — if anybody saw them, I’ll mail them the check because I owe them some money. The reasons behind it were wrong.
“I was doing it to try and get WWE more popular rather than wanting to do it. Every second I was on one of those movie sets, I wanted to be back in WWE. Now, I truly enjoy everything that comes with the movie. You can’t have fear of missing out or wanting to be in all places at once. As performers in WWE, we fancy ourselves as very versatile and want to be everywhere. It’s a weird conundrum.”
Credit: Dermot & Dave. H/T 411Mania