Lengthy earlier than he turned the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, stories circulated that WWE star Damian Priest would probably be solid in Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally.” In the end, Priest didn’t function within the movie, nevertheless, he has now revealed that a suggestion was prolonged from Marvel.
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“It bought taken away from me, however not by Marvel,” stated Priest, throughout a latest interview on “Perception with Chris Van Vliet.”
Whereas it was as soon as believed that Priest was in dialogue to be solid as Namor, the movie’s primary antagonist, it’s unclear if he was provided this function or one thing totally completely different. Priest additionally didn’t affirm who took the function away from him. Nonetheless, interviewer Chris Van Vliet referred to the “previous regime,” stirring dialog that it might have been any individual inside Vince McMahon’s WWE hierarchy who bought concerned.
Regardless of the frustration from Priest, he has since upheld a optimistic angle about the entire state of affairs, recognizing that appearing in “Black Panther” could not have taken him on the street to profitable the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania XL.
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“I am good with it,” stated Priest. “Possibly I do one thing like that, I am going a distinct route, and I am not sitting right here with you because the world champ. It did not work out, not the top of the world. The film was nice, although.”
Priest will not be the one WWE star who has expressed his want to behave in a challenge like “Black Panther,” with Kofi Kingston as soon as begging Marvel to solid him in a Wakanda-based TV collection.
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