Paige On What It Was Like Working with The Rock On Her New Movie, If Being a WWE GM Fills the Non-Wrestling Void

WWE Smackdown GM Paige recently spoke with Vulture Hound and below are some interview highlights.

Does your current work fill the void of being out of the ring?

I’m so proud of all the work I do and looking forward to everyone seeing the film but right now, I am committed to being the best GM I can and it’s different because I’m not getting in the ring but I’m doing 4 or 5 promos a night sometimes and I’m mixing it up with the men and the women and I love getting to work with Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan, R-Truth, Miz. It’s different because I’m not having to think about matches in the same way but I’m still there all the time which I love and it’s fun, it’s pushing me massively outside my comfort zone but I’m loving every single minute of it but…

At this point, the interview was interrupted by the cleaning staff entering Paige’s hotel room.

Sorry, we live out of hotel rooms basically and this kind of thing tends to happen. Anyway, I have all this but also I’m back for this season of Total Divas which after missing last season I’m so excited to be back on it and I think people are going to see a different side of me this season. I do a lot more adulting than people are possibly used to (laughs).

What was it like working with The Rock on your film?

So I got told about the movie, the day I debuted on RAW, I got a message and it said ‘Hey it’s DJ, call me’ and I was like ‘DJ’? It took me forever to realise, ‘oh, Dwayne Johnson, dummy’ so I heard he wanted to talk to me and it was important and here I was, this NXT girl and The Rock wanted to talk to me, I had no idea what it was about and he said ‘hey so you’re going to debut on RAW tomorrow’ and I was shocked enough by this then he told me ‘yeah and you’re going to win the championship’ and I started crying and I asked him ‘why are you telling me this?’ and he said “well , I just wanted to be the one to tell you so I could see your face and I can see from it, you deserve this”. He told me that he’d been in England filming Fast & Furious 6 and he caught the documentary on my family and thought “that girl’s family is just like mine. They just love the wrestling business”. So he just wanted to be the one to tell me my whole life was about to change and he wanted to tell me to make it special.

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I was completely overwhelmed and then he tells me he loved the documentary so much he wants to make it into a movie and that is almost too much I’m just thinking ‘what the f*ck is going on here?’ So he gives me all this great advice like ‘stay humble and hungry’ then tells me it’s just going to be a smaller independent picture but not to tell anyone and I thank him and walk away, an emotional mess. Then a few months pass and I see it’s actually going to be this big blockbuster film with a proper release and it’s just so incredible to see.