Stephen Amell recently did an interview with Six Feet Under podcast, where he discussed a wide range of topics.
During the interview, the actor, who has wrestled a handful of matches, discussed the narrative that wrestling is fake.
“I like the performance of it, I like the athleticism of it, I like the storytelling of it. I don’t know if I understood that when I first started watching it. But there was just something about the performers and the packaging. I think also there was probably of an adversarial element to it because you would tell someone that you like pro wrestling, and then they’d have a problem with it. It’s like, ‘You know it’s fake.’ I’d be like, ‘Yeah.’ Well actually, when I was a kid, that is not what I said [laughs]. I said, ‘No it’s not.’ Now, I’m an adult, and I go, ‘No, it’s not,’ but for different reasons.’ Listen, anything that you put your blood, your sweat, and your tears into is not fake. Anything that resonates with people the world over is not fake. Anything that draws an emotional connection to the audience is not fake, in the same way that Phillip Seymour Hoffman, on a stage in the West End, eliciting something from an audience, that’s not fake. Is he reciting lines? Sure. Has he prepared? Has he rehearsed? Yeah, but there’s still something that takes over when you’re in front of a crowd that is just genuine and authentic. If it was just a flash in the pan, then it’d be like Gangnam Style. That thing happens, and then it goes away. But wrestling’s been happening for nearly a century. It’s stood the test of time,” Amell said.
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