For a man who credit himself with portraying eight totally different characters throughout his skilled wrestling profession, Charles Wright connects most carefully with The Godfather — and he would not hesitate for a second to make that distinction. Showing on “Perception with Chris Van Vliet,” Wright, who was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2016, laid out how quite simple it was for him to get behind the Godfather character and why it stands above some other gimmick in his profession.
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“The most effective factor for me is Godfather as a result of Godfather is me,” Wright mentioned. Whereas the character was excessive, outlandish, good for The Angle Period, and really probably unattainable to painting as we speak, Wright mentioned it was merely him exerting his true character and having enjoyable with a gimmick that was, paradoxically, prompt by his spouse. “Being a pimp [is beside] the purpose. It was so good to have the ability to simply be you.”
Whereas another characters he portrayed have been defiant (Kama), violent (Kama Mustafa), and spooky (Papa Shango), The Godfather let Wright be himself and luxuriate in wrestling for the primary purpose he wished to be concerned in it within the first place — to have enjoyable. “I [have fun] on a regular basis,” he mentioned. “I do not act laborious. I do not act imply. I attempt to be humorous. And I simply get pleasure from life now which has made me a greater individual. The head for me was being The Godfather and having the ability to be myself on TV.”
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Together with the liberty of simply portraying an elevated model of his true character, Wright says the corporate let him categorical himself freely as effectively, realizing that the viewers was in search of the identical enjoyable that he was. “I used to be by no means scripted,” he mentioned. “I had carte blanche. Is that loopy? They simply wished me to entertain them.
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