Acting and professional wrestling have a lot more similarities than you might think. There’s the level of performance involved, the showmanship and the years required to perfect the craft on smaller stages before finding global recognition and, of course, the fame and glory. It comes as no surprise, then, that a lot of names have tried to make the jump from the squared circle to the silver screen, experiencing varying degrees of success.
As the most famous wrestler on the planet for well over a decade, Hulk Hogan must have thought the transition would have been easy, but all of his movies were terrible. Steve Austin, meanwhile, attempted something similar a decade later, but quickly found himself in bargain bin action territory. In a strange turn of events, though, three of the most decorated grapplers of the 21st Century are all making a big splash in Hollywood at the moment.
As the most famous wrestler on the planet for well over a decade, Hulk Hogan must have thought the transition would have been easy, but all of his movies were terrible. Steve Austin, meanwhile, attempted something similar a decade later, but quickly found himself in bargain bin action territory. In a strange turn of events, though, three of the most decorated grapplers of the 21st Century are all making a big splash in Hollywood at the moment.
- 9/21/2020
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