You don’t get anywhere without losing a lot. “It’s a wrestling film, but ultimately it’s about her and her family and the downs, as much as the ups,” she said of Paige, whom she met in person only two weeks prior to Sundance. “Fighting With My Family” star Florence Pugh That is so truthful about how hard we work to get where we need to be. The actress prepared by studying online recaps of the wrestler’s matches - the way she cut her attitude-filled promos, how she moved. “Whilst we’re playing these amazing characters we had to find some level of understanding in our approach.”
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“Equally, I think what we wanted this film to be was not an impression,” said the Oxford-born Pugh - a newbie to wrestling who now considers herself a “slight expert” with a Twitter feed full of WWE alerts - one afternoon at Sundance. Pugh, 23, had been cast to play the driven but still searching-for-herself young Paige, and the two would frequently chat, text and Skype. He’s like the Oprah of wrestling.”īy the time filming began early last year under the direction of “The Office” co-creator Stephen Merchant, Paige was in a very different place. “I’m just crying and he’s shoveling tissues to me,” laughs Paige, “and I was like, ‘What?!’ I was a hysterical mess. He told her he planned to turn her story into a film - and that she would also be making her main roster debut the next day to win the Divas Championship.
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And I think Dwayne really identified with that.” “It’s about this family who loves each other madly and loves this thing that binds them,” said Misher. Producing for his own Seven Bucks banner, Johnson teamed up with “Scorpion King” producer Kevin Misher and brought U.K.’s Film4 and WWE aboard to co-finance the $10 million indie. Their story had all the elements of an inspirational comedy, while reminding him of his own family. He was in London filming “Fast & Furious 6” in 2012 when he couldn’t sleep and turned on the Channel 4 documentary “The Wrestlers: Fighting With My Family,” about the quirky Bevis wrestling clan. The idea began with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who also rose to international stardom from an iconic wrestling family. “Fighting With My Family” was in the works long before Paige hit her rough times. Because you go through hell and you hit rock bottom, and even when you make it, there are still obstacles.” She smiles. “Let’s get the first one out of the way! But let’s say, a couple of years down the line, a second one comes out - I feel like the story that I’ve had since then is also pretty empowering. She waves it off in her husky British accent, saving the idea for later. It would be a good story to tell, she says, because it might help others avoid making the same mistakes she did. She’s open about the personal hits she’s endured - the WWE drug violations, the hacked videos that left her contemplating self-harm and reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion - and the 2017 re-injury that ultimately led to her retirement from the ring last year.īriefly, she mulls it over. A two-time Divas champion and inaugural NXT champion, Paige was a WWE superstar at the top of her game when her career felt like it was all tumbling down just a few years ago.
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